Who Designed Claremont?
The architects behind Claremont's houses, with the builders and first families named beside them, from the public record.
Claremont's record holds two building stories documented in National Register nominations: the Russian Village on South Mills Avenue, built from the 1920s through the 1930s by Konstany Stys with Merle Meade, Clarence Michael and Raymond Yerkes, and the Intercultural Council houses, built from 1947 to 1952 and principally designed by Lewis Crutcher. For the city itself, its neighborhoods and its market, see the library's Claremont page.
Who designed the houses in Claremont?
On this record, 28 houses in Claremont name their architect, and the architects named most are Lewis Crutcher (architect, 9), Arthur Acker (architect, 2), Marston & Maybury (architect, 2) and Robert H. Orr (architect, 2). For 12 of them the documents name the builder too.
When were most of Claremont's houses on record built?
The decades with the most houses here are the 1940s (11), the 1930s (4), the 1920s (3) and the 1900s (3). The single busiest year on record is 1948.
How do I find out who designed my house in Claremont?
Look for your street in the table on this page; 28 Claremont houses here name the architect, and every architect is in the register with the rest of the work credited to that name. For the year, the Los Angeles County Assessor is the first place to check; its year built is often there, though it can be approximate or missing. Who designed my house? walks through the records in order.
If your house is not here, ask me. I'm Greg Anderson of Arroyo Casa. Claremont's records hold designers who built the houses they drew, and those stories belong with the house.
Every house with a named architect.
The 28 Claremont houses whose architect a document names, in the order they were built, with the builder and the first family where the documents name them.
Who designed Claremont.
Lewis Crutcher (architect, 9), Arthur Acker (architect, 2), Marston & Maybury (architect, 2), Robert H. Orr (architect, 2), Arthur Munson (architect, 1), Clair Earl & Associates (architect, 1), Clarence Michael (architect and builder, 1), Foster Rhodes Jackson (architect, 1), Fred McDowell (architect, 1), Greene & Greene (architect, 1), Helen Rolph Wren (architect, 1), Konstany Stys (architect and builder, 1), Millard Sheets (architect, 1), Paul R. Williams (architect, 1), Peter Picker (architect, 1), Raymond Yerkes (architect and builder, 1) and Theodore Criley Jr. and Fred McDowell (architect, 1)
Where to look next.
How this record is built.
This record is compiled by the Arroyo Casa Archive of Records from public documents: city and county historic resources surveys and inventories, National Register nominations, landmark designation reports and council records, planning documents and preservation groups' publications, plus the building notices of 1917 to 1930, printed as houses were permitted, contracted or announced. Where a house was matched to the Los Angeles County Assessor's record at the same address in the same city, the page says whether the county confirms it standing. A house is shown only when one of those documents names its architect, and the builder and the first family are shown beside the architect where a document names them. Each house carries the kind of document behind it, and a credit the document itself calls likely, probable, possible or attributed is marked attributed. The methodology and every source document are on one page.
Find who designed your house.
Every house has a birth year. Start with the owner's guide: how to find who designed and built your house, who lived in it first, and what this record already holds.
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