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Architects Myron H. Hunt (1868-1952) and Harold C. Chambers (1885-1971) worked in Los Angeles and its vicinity. Myron Hunt worked on his own from 1908-1920. Harold Coulson Chambers started working with Hunt as a draftsman in 1907, when the latter was still a partner with architect Elmer Grey, (1903-1908), and gradually worked his way up to ...
Apr 9, 2019 · “Myron Hunt was not a great architect,” Winter wrote. “He was not even in the running. But he was a good architect and an extraordinarily successful one as the world measures success.” History professor Jeremiah Axelrod agreed with Winter — Hunt’s status as an architect came more from his business sensibility than his artistic ability.
The speakers were Professor J.F. ChamberIain (geologist from the State Normal School in Los Angeles), local businessman C. D. Sargent and architect Myron Hunt (at the time president of the Southern California chapter of the American Institute of Architects).
An intimate private library with oak-paneled walls and built-in bookcases clearly presages Myron Hunt's later, 1925 design of the Pasadena Public Library's oak-paneled great hall. Enter through two original, intricate wrought-iron interior doors into the expansive 500 sq. ft formal living room with grand picture window, fireplace and original ...
They began sharing loft space in the newly built Steinway Hall in Chicago's Loop in 1896. The space was shared with Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert C. Spencer, Jr., Myron Hunt, Dwight H. Perkins, Walter Burley Griffin, and Marion Mahony Griffin, the first licensed female architect in the United States.
Several of these young architects began sharing loft space in Dwight Perkins's newly built Steinway Hall in the Loop; this gathering commenced during the winter of 1896–97 and at various times included Perkins, Spencer, and Wright, as well as Myron Hunt, Walter Burley Griffin, Marion Mahony Griffin, and others. The result was a vigorous ...
Hoak began as a draftsman and later worked for prominent Pasadena architects Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers from 1922 to 1924 on th e Pasadena Public Library project. During the 1930s, Hoak designed for several well-known Los Angeles architectural firms, including Morgan, Walls, & Clements and Parkinson & Parkin son for t he Los Angeles Union ...
