Early life

He was born on January 30, 1894, in Zearing, Iowa.^[1][2] He received a Liberal Arts certificate from the University of Dubuque in 1913, graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1917, and later received a degree in architecture from the University of Southern California.^[1][2] During the First World War, he served in the field artillery.^[2]

Career

Together with Carl Jules Weyl (1890-1948), he designed the Spanish Baroque Palace Theater, now known as the Avalon Hollywood, located at 1735 North Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, in 1926-1927.^[1][3] Alternatively, in 1926, they designed the Spanish Colonial Baine Building located at 6601-09 Hollywood Boulevard, built for Colonel Harry Baine (1884-1945).^[1][4][5] As such, Baine was "the first person to live in a penthouse on Hollywood Boulevard," and his downstairs tenants were the Merchants National Trust and Savings Bank.^[5] In 1927, they designed a building located at 6654 Hollywood Boulevard.^[1][6] In 1928, they designed shops and studios for Fred Thomson (1890-1928).^[1][7] In 1929, they designed the Yucca Vine Tower, a 112-foot, eight-floor building located at 6305-09 Yucca Street in the Yucca Corridor area of Hollywood.^[1][8][9] In 1928, he designed the Grand Central Air Terminal of the Glendale Airport in Glendale, California.^[1][10]

In 1930, he designed a dance studio located at 6274-84 Yucca Street in Hollywood.^[1][11] In 1936, he designed the Compton branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.^[1][12] From 1936 to 1938, he designed the Susan Miller Dorsey High School in South Los Angeles.^[1][13] From 1941 to 1942, he designed the factory of the Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California.^[1][14] From 1942 to 1943, he designed the Naval Ordnance Test Station of the United States Navy in Inyokern, California.^[1][15]

In 1950, he designed Union High School in Visalia, California.^[1][16] In 1956, together with D. Stewart Kerr, he designed the new buildings of Gardena High School in Gardena, California.^[1][17] From 1957 to 1958, he designed another factory for the Hughes Aircraft Company, this time in Fullerton, California.^[1][18] In 1959, he designed the new campus of Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California.^[1][19] In 1961, he designed new buildings for Allan Hancock College, a community college in Santa Maria, California.^[1][20] In 1963, he designed the buildings of the South Hills High School in West Covina, California.^[1][21]

He designed the bedrooms of the Biltmore Hotel in Palm Springs, California, while the building itself was designed by architect Frederick Monhoff (1897–1975); it was demolished in 2003.^[1][22] He also designed and operated the Desert Air Hotel and Palm Desert Airpark in Rancho Mirage, California, until 1968.^[2]

He sat on the Board of Trustees of the St. Anne's Foundation and was the recipient of the Angel Award in 1988.^[2]

Personal life

He got married in 1922 and divorced in 1930.^[1] He died on January 4, 1990, in Los Angeles County, California.^[1][2]