William James Dodd (1862–1930) was an American architect and designer who worked mainly in

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from 1886 through the end of 1912 and in

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from early 1913 until his death. Dodd rose from the so-called First Chicago School of architecture, though of greater influence for his mature designs was the classical aesthetic of the Beaux-Arts style ascendant after the Chicago

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of 1893. His design work also included functional and decorative

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and ceramics, furniture, home appliances, and literary illustration. In a prodigious career lasting more than 40 years, Dodd left many extant structures on both east and west coasts and in the midwest and upper south, among the best known of these being the original Presbyterian Seminary campus (now Jefferson Community & Technical College), the Weissinger-Gaulbert Apartments, and the old YMCA building, all three in

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. Also notable are his numerous residential and ecclesiastical designs still in use in Kentucky and Tennessee. In California, examples of his extant work include the Pacific Center and Hearst's

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Building in downtown

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and the

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south of

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. Some of his earliest attributed designs may be found in Hyde Park, Illinois.

Early years

William J. Dodd was born in

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, Canada, in 1862.Quebec City Wesleyan Methodist Church records, leaf 21, baptismal record of December 17, 1862 (birth date: September 22, 1862) Prior to emigrating from Canada to the United States and Chicago Illinois, William's English/Scots father, Edward, was an inn keeper and before that a

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, and his Irish mother, Mary Dinning, was a school teacher and dressmaker. In 1869, the family of six, then including daughters Jane (Jenny) and Elizabeth, and sons Edward Jr. and William James, moved to

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. The 1870 Chicago Directory gives the first known address for the Dodds on south Des Plaines near the original site of the Old St. Patrick's Church. In 1871, the ill-timed move of the Dodd household to West Harrison Street in Ward 9 placed them in the path of the

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in October of the same year. Dodd received his training in the office studio of Chicago architect

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, c. 1878–1879, and his first employment from 1880 into mid 1883 appears to be for the Pullman Car Company as a draftsman of architect

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's designs for the planned city of

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now the

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. Dodd's social life in Pullman was marked with athletic participation on the first Pullman competitive rowing crew. As a member of the Pullman Rowing Club and the Pullman Pleasure Club he was often mentioned in the press accounts of fetes and dance parties that he coordinated for the young elites of Pullman and Hyde Park. This sporting sociability is not merely incidental to Dodd but returns as an important feature of his later life in Louisville, with his membership in the

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and Louisville Country Club, and in Los Angeles with his co-founding of

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Club, an offshoot of the

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. In November 1889 William J. Dodd married Ione Estes of

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. The marriage produced no children. Ione was from a large family of some political and historical importance in

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Tennessee and in the

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region. It is not yet determined what was the religious practice, if any, of William and Ione after marriage. Ione was Presbyterian, and their marriage was officiated by a Presbyterian minister. William was christened in the Methodist Church. There are other uncertainties in Dodd's biography. Although naturalized in 1869 upon entering the United States, from the 1890s onward Dodd identifies as Chicago-born, doing so,

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-like, in all kinds of public documents. In an 1897 interview with a reporter for the

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W. J. Dodd left the reporter, and thus posterity, with the impression that he was a native Chicagoan, that he graduated from "the Chicago schools" and had been in the first graduating class of the

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. The archives of the Institute do not yet support this claim. Similarly unclear is precisely when Dodd began his professional practice in Louisville. The year usually offered in the histories of Kentucky architects (from Withey to Hedgepeth,Hedgepeth, Marty Lyn Poynter. The Victorian to the Beaux-Arts: A study of Four Louisville Architectural Firms, McDonald Brothers, McDonald & Sheblessy, Dodd & Cobb and McDonald & Dodd. M.A. Thesis, 1981 University of Louisville to Kleber, to Luhan, Domer and Mohney) for Dodd's arrival in Louisville is 1884, based on the forementioned 1897 Courier-Journal article. In contrast, the ''

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'' still identifies him with the Pullman Rowing Club in early 1884, around this time taking employment as an architect with the

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upon recommendation by S. S. Beman and moving to the rail company's office in Portland Oregon only to return to Chicago (Hyde Park) and employment with the Beman brothers (S. S. and W. I.) by the end of 1885 after the Northern Pacific's collapse and reorganization. The journal Inland Architect of February 1886 announces Dodd's imminent departure from Chicago to begin a partnership with O. C. Wehle of Louisville, saying: "Mr Dodd will oonbe a valuable addition to the architects of Louisville".Inland Architect & Builder. Vol 7, No. 1, p. 8: February 1886 By September 1886 Dodd is cited as partner with Oscar Wehle for the design of "a magnificent three story brown stone residence" in Louisville. In November 1886, Dodd was elected to membership in the

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, his home city being given as Louisville. Dodd first appears as a resident, a boarder, in Louisville in the 1887 Caron's Louisville Directory, and in February of same year, a trade journal cites "Wehle & Dodd, architects, of Louisville." In December 1887, the ''

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'' newspaper gives the partnership office in Louisville as "s.e. cor. Fifth and Main" The

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(A.I.A.) Historical Directory of American Architects has held that Dodd did not join the A.I.A. national organization until 1916 despite Dodd's listing in membership with the Louisville Chapter of the A.I.A. in 1912 and in Southern California A.I.A. chapter in 1915.

Career

Dodd spent nearly 27 years in Louisville. During this time his professional partners were Oscar C. Wehle,

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(1889-1896), Arthur Cobb, and Kenneth McDonald. Also, Dodd's output from these years contained many free-lance projects. He worked throughout Kentucky and across the midwest, specifically Illinois, Indiana,Hedgepeth, p. 95 Ohio, and Tennessee, creating structures of exceptional craftsmanship and high style, designs which traced the transitional tastes and technologies of the period before

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. On the east coast, extant Dodd structures from the early 1890s can be found in Virginia, in the historic

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neighborhood. On Christmas Day 1912 Dodd departed the midwest to continue his profession in the greater Los Angeles area, a period lasting until his death there in June 1930. In Los Angeles, Dodd partnered briefly with J. Martyn Haenke (1877–1963) and later with William Richards (1871–1945), his longest professional partnership. In southern California, "the Southland", Dodd's buildings are to be found in the old downtown financial district around Pacific Center, above Hollywood in Laughlin Park and

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, to the west in

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and Long Beach, southeast to San Gabriel, and possibly northeast in Altadena. Related to Dodd's Los Angeles work are residences in Oak Glen and

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. From as early as 1893, and to the end of his life, Dodd was a mentor to talented younger designers who were new to the profession, designers with now well-known names like

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, and Adrian Wilson, often outsiders without a developed practice and contending with a new client base and fast evolving licensing standards in cities enjoying rapid expansion as was Louisville after the

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and Los Angeles after

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. The architect

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, a mostly free-lance upstate California designer from San Francisco, rare as a female in a male-dominated profession, formed a team with W. J. Dodd and J. M. Haenke as her LA facilitators and design partners for William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Building, a landmark downtown Los Angeles project completed in 1915. William Dodd's design work extended to glass and ceramics. His designs of

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are among the most sought-after and rare of the Arts and Crafts movement products introduced by the famed Gates Potteries near Chicago Illinois. He also designed furniture and art glass windows for many of his best residential and commercial buildings;Hedgepeth, p. 96 examples of such work by Dodd are to be seen in the Ferguson Mansion, currently the

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, and the Hoyt Gamble house, both of Louisville.

Civic and cultural involvement

Dodd was an amateur musical and theatrical performer. It is known that he was a singer. He served on the founding boards of the Louisville Symphony Orchestra (1908) and the Louisville Art Association (1909), now Louisville Visual Art, and he was a member of dramatic societies in both Louisville and Los Angeles. From 1916 to 1919 he served on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, this latter organization being the predecessor of the LA Philharmonic, and he was a mover and shaker in the Los Angeles Gamut Club, an exclusively male music fraternity. In 1918, the journal Pacific Coast Musical Review said "It seems Mr. Dodd has the knack of making artists and others do what he wants them to" and nicknamed Dodd "the Mayor of Seventh Street", presumably a reference to the theater and vaudeville district of old Los Angeles. From 1917 until his death he served on the California State Board of Examiners. In early 1930 he joined the newly founded International Desert Conservation League as an advisory board member.

Death

William became acutely ill while traveling abroad with his wife in the spring of 1930, returning home without Ione in early May and dying at Los Angeles on June 14, 1930 in Hollywood Hospital. Cause of death: lymphocytic leukemia with hypostatic pneumonia. The funeral was postponed until June 28, 1930 upon the return of Ione from Europe, his last rites and burial conducted at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, Little Church of the Flowers. Obituary notices of June 15, 23, 27 and 28 make no mention of any religious facilitation of Dodd's memorial. For enlarged context on Dodd's religious affiliation, see the "Early Years" section above.

Extant designs

Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee

Street numbers reflect the year 1909 citywide renumbering of street addresses in advance of the 1910 U.S. Census. * Washington Irving Beman residence (1885), 5425 S. Blackstone,

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Illinois * Max Selliger residence (mid 1886), 1022 S. 3rd St.

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Historic District. * Lewis Witherspoon & Eliza Irwin McKee residence (Autumn 1886), 1224 Harrodsburg Rd.

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* Louis Seelbach residence (1888). 926 S. 6th St.

Historic District. * Charles Bonnycastle Robinson residence (1889), a.k.a. "Bonnycot". 1111 Bellewood Rd.

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* Louisville Trust Building (1891) Maury & Dodd, 5th and Market, Louisville, Kentucky. Links to images given below. * George A. Newman residence (1891),Inland Architect, Vol. 17, No. 2, p. 28 1123 S. 3rd St.

Historic District * Charles L. Robinson residence (1890–1891), 1334 S. 3rd St.

Historic District * Covenant Presbyterian Church (1891), now Fifth Street Baptist, 1901 W. Jefferson St., Louisville KY * W. J. Dodd residence (1891–1892: first residence 33 St James Ct)Louisville Courier-Journal, Aug. 25, 1891, p. 8 1467a St. James Court,

Historic District * Paul Cain residence (1891–1892: first residence 35 St James Ct) 1467b St. James Court,

Historic District * Helen Reid/William Whaley residence (1892), 317 Colonial Ave.

Virginia * Nelson County Courthouse (1892) Maury & Dodd,

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* Sam Stone Bush residence (1893),NRHP Nomination Form: August 1981. M. A. Allgeier, researcher 230

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KY * Bernard Flexner residence (1892–1893), 525 W. Ormsby Ave.

Historic District * Jacob A. Flexner residence (1892–1893), 531 W. Omsby Ave.

Historic District * Harry McGoodwin residence (1893), 1504 S. 3rd St.

Historic District * Cornelia Bush residence (1894), 316

KY * St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1895) Maury & Dodd, now West End Baptist, 4th & Magnolia,

. Links to images given below. * Dr. G. W. Lewman residence (1896), 1365 S. 3rd. Maury & Dodd.

Historic DistrictInland Architect & Engineer. Volumes 25–26, p. 43. 1896 * J. W. Brown residence (1896), 1455 S. 4th. Maury & Dodd.

Historic District * William T. Johnston residence (1896), 1457 S. 4th.

Historic District * Arthur Cobb residence (c. 1896-7), 4561 S. 2nd St.

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KY * Shakleford Miller residence (1897),Hedgepeth, p. 94 1454 S. 4th St.

Historic District * Edmund Trabue residence (1897), 1419 St. James Court.

Historic District * Benjamin Straus residence (1897), 1464 S. 3rd St.

Historic District * William Thalheimer residence (1897), 1433 S. 3rd St.

Historic District * Eugene Leander residence (1897), 1384 S. 2nd St.

Historic District * Samuel Grabfelder residence (1897–1899), 1442 S. 3rd St.

Historic District * Joseph G McCulloch residence (1897), 1435 S. 3rd St.

Historic District * John P. Starks residence (1898), 1412 St. James Court

Historic District * Flemish style library addition to Sam Stone Bush residence (1900),Hedgepeth, p. 97 230 Kenwood Hill Rd. Louisville * George Franklin

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(c. 1900, addition 1912) 700 Louisville Rd., Frankfort KY. Links to images given below. * Atherton Building (1901), 4th and Muhammad Ali, Louisville, KY * Four-stall stable and carriage house for S. Grabfelder residence (c. 1901), 1442 S. 3rd St.

Historic District * Eight-stall stable and carriage house for Peter Lee Atherton residence (c. 1902), Glenview Kentucky * Five-stall stable and carriage house for EH Ferguson residence (c. 1902),

Historic District * Edwin H. Ferguson mansion (1902–1905), now

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, 3rd & Ormsby,

* Fourth Avenue Methodist-Episcopal Church (1901–1902), 4th & St. Catherine Sts.,

Historic District. Links to images given below. * Jacob L. Smyser residence (1902), 1035 Cherokee Rd. Louisville * Presbyterian Theological Seminary (c. 1902–1906) now Jefferson Community & Technical College, Broadway,

* C. Hunter Raine mansion, a.k.a. "Beverly Hall" (c. 1905–1906), Central and Willett,

* Bishop Thomas Gailor residence, Episcopal Cathedral of St. Mary. 700 Poplar Ave.

* Western Branch of the

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(c. 1905), a Carnegie library: America's first public library dedicated to serve

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s, 10th & Chestnut. External links to images given below. *

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Courthouse in Greenville KY (1907). Links to images given below. * Atherton Building and Mary Anderson Theatre (1907), 610 S. 4th St., Louisville * Stewarts Building (1907), also known as Stewarts Dry Goods Company, Fourth and Muhammad Ali streets, Louisville *

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(1902 Andrews & Dodd; 1907 McDonald & Dodd) at 4th & Muhammad Ali, Louisville. * 1244 & 1246 Ormsby Court (1907, McDonald & Dodd.) Dodd bought the lots. Attributed by style. * 143 Bayly Ave (1910, McDonald & Dodd) Louisville * William J. Dodd residence (Spring/Summer 1910), 1448 St James Court,

Historic District * Louisville Country Club (1910) * Walnut Street Theatre (1910), 414 W. Muhammad Ali (formerly Walnut St.), Louisville Links to images given below. * George Gaulbert Memorial Shelter House, near Big Rock in Cherokee Park (1910) * Addison R. Smith residence 1425 S. 3rd and Wyble Mapother residence 1429 S. 3rd (both 1910-11), Louisville, KY - McDonald & Dodd * Citizens National Life Insurance Building (1910–1911), 100 Park Road,

* First Christian Church (1911), now Immanuel Baptist Church, 4th & Breckinridge streets. Links to images given below. * Charles L. Nelson residence (1911–1912), 2327 Cherokee Pkwy, Louisville, KY * William R. Belknap residence (1905–1912), a.k.a. "Lincliff", 6100 Longview Lane,

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* Alfred Brandeis residence (1911–1912), a.k.a. "Ladless Hill", 6501 Longview Lane,

* Weissinger-Gaulbert Apartments Annex, Broadway, Louisville (c. 1912) External links to images given below. * the old YMCA building, Broadway, Louisville (1911–1912). External links to images given below. * Louis Seelbach mansion (1911–1912) or "Barnard Hall". 715 Alta Vista Rd. Louisville * Standard Oil of Kentucky Offices, Fifth & Bloom Sts, Louisville (1912 May-Oct). McDonald & Dodd * T. Hoyt Gamble residence, 119 Ormsby Avenue,

Historic District (late 1912)

California

* W. J. Dodd (first) residence (c. 1914–1915) 2010 DeMille Dr.

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* Coulter's department store (1916–1917), 500 W. 7th St. Los Angeles * Annex to Brockman Bldg. (1916–17) 7th St. & Grand Ave., originally J.J

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* Huntsberger-Mennell Bldg. (1917), 412 W. 7th St. Los Angeles * Henning Bldg. (1917), 518 W. 7th St. Los Angeles * Ville de Paris department store Bldg. (1917), 420 W. 7th St. Los Angeles * H. L. Rivers house (1918), a.k.a. "Los Rios Rancho" Oak Glen, California * Ponet Company Bldg. (1918–1919) 12th & Hope. Los Angeles * W. J. Dodd (second) residence (c. 1922) 5226 Linwood, later the Deanna Durbin residence,

* Hearst's

Building, downtown

(c. 1915). Design team of Morgan, Dodd & Haenke * Heron Building (1919–1920), originally the State Building, 6th and Olive Sts. Los Angeles * Brock & Co. Building (1921), 515 W. 7th St. Los Angeles * Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building, now PacMutual, 523 W. Sixth St. at

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, Financial District, Los Angeles (with William Richards, 1921) * Kenneth Preuss residence (1921–1922), 5235 Linwood, Laughlin Park,

* Uplifters Club House, now the Rustic Canyon Recreation Center, Haldeman Road, Pacific Palisades (1923) * Good Samaritan Physicians Bldg. (1923), 6th and Lucas. Los Angeles * Apartment Bldg. (1923) at 3105 W. 6th, now Borden Retail and Apts. Koreatown, Los Angeles * Pasadena Medical Bldg. (1924) a.k.a. Professional Bldg., 65 N. Madison Ave. Pasadena * William and Nelia Mead residence (1924), now "The Willows Inn", Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA * Roland Bishop residence (1925), now "The Willows Inn", Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA * San Gabriel Mission Auditorium, greater Los Angeles. (1926) * Jacob Riis Vocational School for Boys (1927), renamed as Mary McLeod Bethune Junior High School, on 69th between Broadway and Main * Residence (1930) 8252 Rees Ave.,

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Los Angeles * Ivan Miller residence (1930) 8207 Delgany Ave,

Los Angeles. Intended as his retirement house, this is one of Dodd's final residential designs. Anecdotal accounts by neighbors on Delgany Ave. suggest that the Dodds may have begun to occupy this property at the time of William's death. * W. J. Dodd (final) residence of record at time of his death (1928–1930) 1975 DeMille Dr.

Demolished or destroyed Dodd structures
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Kentucky

* Thompson A. Lyon residence (c. 1893, demolished c. 1970) 4646 Bellevue, Beechmont neighborhood, Louisville * J. E. Whitney Cottage (1899, demolished in May 1951) 210 E. Gray St., downtown Louisville. * Masonic Theater (1903, later Strand Theater: demolished 1947) on Chestnut St. between 3rd & 4th Avenues. * Atherton Building (the first so-named, 1901: demolished 1979) at Fourth and Muhammad Ali Blvd. Louisville * Frankel Memorial Chapel (collapsed July 2012) The Temple Cemetery, 2716 Preston St. Louisville * Lincoln Building (later Washington Building, 1906–1907: demolished 1972) at Fourth and Market, Louisville * Lansdowne, a.k.a. Country estate of S. Thruston Ballard in Glenview, 1907-8: demolished 1976. * Rio Vista, a.k.a. Country estate of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Caperton, 1909-1910 River Road, Mockingbird Valley, Louisville. Demolished around 1955.

Tennessee

* Albert Sloo Caldwell residence, a.k.a. "Baldaur", 1897. Formerly 216 N. Waldran Ave/Blvd. Memphis. emolished: 1966(A design based upon Dodd's 1893 Kentucky State Building for the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.) * Residence of William B. Rogers, M.D., c. 1902. Formerly 1257 Poplar Blvd/St/Ave. Memphis. emolished: year unknown

California

* Jacob "Jake" M. Danziger-Daisy Canfield residence (1914: demolished 1951). Mediterranean Eclectic/Mission Revival style, first residence in Bel Air development
Link to image: "Capo di Monte"
* Kinema eluxe MovieTheater (1916, later Criterion: demolished 1941)642 S. Grand Ave. Los, Angeles * Architects' Building (1927: demolished 1968–1969) at Fifth and Figueroa, Los Angeles * Bank of America/Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank (1928: demolished 1970s) at Broadway and Brand, GlendaleSouth Glendale Historic Resources Context Statement, September 30, 2014, p. 120

References

External links

Page where may be found an article on J. Martyn Haenke

Database: Adrian Wilson - California Architect

ArchitectsBuilding, Los Angeles: Blog posting by Nathan Marsak. Mar. 14, 2009

* ttp://www.city-data.com/picfilesv/picv11413.php Images of Muhlenberg County Courthouse, Greenville KY
Image of old YMCA building, now St. Francis High School in Louisville, KY

Image of Weissinger-Gaulbert Apts. in Louisville KY

* ttp://eecue.com/a/1466/LA-Conservancy-Photo-Tour.html Images of Heron Bldg. and Pacific (Mutual Life Insurance Bldg.) Center in downtown Los Angeles
Dodd structures destroyed: Frankel Chapel in Louisville Jewish Cemetery

The C. Hunter Raine mansion

Image of 1975 DeMille Dr.

Dodd designed arts and crafts lodge. Oak Glen, CA "Los Rios Rancho.

Roland Bishop Residence, Palm Springs, CA; Tahquitz Canyon Way, . HSPB application documentation.

Dodd Playa Del Rey Residence. Delgany Ave. Historic-Cultural Monument Designation documentation.
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Early years

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Death

Extant designs

Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee

California

Kentucky

Tennessee

California

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