William and Alexander Curlett
William F. Curlett (County Down, Ireland, March 3, 1846 – January 21, 1914, San Francisco) and Alexander Edward Curlett (called Aleck) (San Francisco, February 6, 1881 – September 5, 1942) were a father-and-son pair of architects. They worked together as partners under the name of William Curlett and Son, Architects from c. 1908–1916. Aleck Curlett partnered with Claud Beelman as Curlett & Beelman (1919–1932).
The San Francisco firm of Curlett, Eisen, & Cuthbertson, Architects, was active in the 1880s; it designed the Los Angeles County Courthouse in 1887. In 1888, the firm occupied Room #41 of the Downey Block. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1888, p. 768.)
Works
National Register of Historic Places
A number of works by either or both Curletts are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. These works (in California unless otherwise noted) include:
William Curlett
- Theodore F. Payne House (1881), San Francisco
- Mutual Savings Bank Building (1902), San Francisco
- Packard Library (1906), Marysville
- Phelan Building (1908), San Francisco
- Villa Montalvo (1914), Saratoga
- Haas Californiandy Factory, San Francisco
Alexander and William Curlett
- Merchant's National Bank Building (1913), Los Angeles
- Hotel Congress (1918), Tucson, Arizona
- Rialto Theatre (1920), Tucson, Arizona
- Rialto Building, Tucson, Arizona
Alexander Curlett
- Building at 816 South Grand Avenue (1924), Los Angeles
- Roosevelt Building (1926), Los Angeles
- Fifth Street Store Building (1927), Los Angeles
- Board of Trade Building (1929), Los Angeles
- Equitable Building of Hollywood (1929/1931), Los Angeles
Curlett & Beelman
- Cooper Arms Apartments (1923), Long Beach
- Culver Hotel (1924), Culver City
- Chester Williams Building (1926), Los Angeles
- Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building (1928), Los Angeles
- Security Building (1928), Phoenix, Arizona
Other works
Other of their works include:
- New Lanfranco Block (1888), Los Angeles, with Eisen and Cuthbertson
- Potomac Block (1890), Los Angeles, with Block and Eisen
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church (1902), Berkeley
- Foreman & Clark Building (1929), Los Angeles, with Beelman
- Commercial Club of Southern California, Los Angeles
References
- ↑ Michelson, Alan. "William F. Curlett (Architect)". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. University of Washington. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ↑ Michelson, Alan. "Alexander Edward Curlett (Architect)". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. University of Washington. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ↑ Michelson, Alan. "Curlett, William, and Son, Architects (Partnership)". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. University of Washington. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ↑ Michelson, Alan. "Curlett and Beelman, Architects (Partnership)". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. University of Washington. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ↑ Michelson, Alan. "Curlett, Eisen, and Cuthbertson, Architects". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. University of Washington. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
- ↑ National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet: Mutual Savings Bank Building, National Park Service, 22 January 2014
- ↑ Winter, Robert (2009). An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles. Gibbs Smith. p. 252-253. ISBN 978-1-4236-0893-6.
- 1 2 "California SP Broadway Theater and Commercial District". National Park Service. 9 May 1979.
- ↑ "AMBER-20150127111802" (PDF).
- ↑ "Lanfranco Block - Romanesque Revival Downtown - PocketSights". pocketsights.com. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ↑ "To Be Replaced". Los Angeles Herald. 15 January 1888. p. 9.
- ↑ "Campus Outreach". St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ↑ "DTLA-Fact-Sheet_Dec2019" (PDF). December 2019.