Ernest McConnell was an American architect, who worked in-house for the Los Angeles Investment Company.
Designs for homes
McConnell also designed numerous Craftsman homes featured in a plan book that the Los Angeles Investment Co. published. The LAIC constructed many homes from those plans in various housing developments they built throughout Southern California.
McConnell oversaw the creation of all the designs in a 92-page catalog book that the Investment Co. released in 1912-3, titled ''Modern Homes of California''. The book contained 77 architectural designs and photographs of mostly
Arts and Crafts
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the Decorative arts, decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and ...
style
bungalows
A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is typically single or one and a half storey, if a smaller upper storey exists it is frequently set in the roof and windows that come out from the roof, and may be surrounded by wide verandas.
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across the Southland priced between $1500 and $5000, as well as 200 detailed illustrations of exterior and interior views, along with plans that provided accurate estimates for construction materials and labor costs.
Other works
Ernest McConnell designed
Chapman Building
Chapman Building, also known as Los Angeles Investment Company Building, Charles C. Chapman Building, The Chapman, and Chapman Flats, is a historic thirteen-story highrise located at 756 S. Broadway (Los Angeles), Broadway and 227 W. 8th Street ( ...
, which was designated
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments are sites which have been designated by the Los Angeles, California, Cultural Heritage Commission as worthy of preservation based on architectural, historic and cultural criteria.
History
The Historic-Cul ...
#899 and a
contributing property
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic dist ...
to the
Broadway Theater and Commercial District
The Broadway Theater District in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch ...
.
External links
"If the Small Investor Ever Had a Monument to His Credit: The Los Angeles Investment Company Building, 1912" (Part One)(blog article
Archived
References
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Architects from California
Beaux Arts architects
Arts and Crafts architects
Bungalow architecture in California