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Elmer Grey architectural drawings

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Description: A group of 17 architectural drawings by architect Elmer Grey for two residences: Grey's own residence in Pasadena, California, 1910, and the Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Wild residence in Los Angeles, 1929.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1910, 1929.
Call number: archGrey
Creator: Grey, Elmer (1871-1962)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Estate of John E. Kulli, 2010.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Copies of Throop Polytechnic Institute architectural drawings

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A group of seven photographic copies of architectural drawings and renderings of Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, California. The images are small (2.25 x 3.25 inches), and mounted on boards. The drawings are by architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey, Pasadena. Two renderings were signed by Elmer Grey and dated 1907 and 1908. Throop became the California Institute of Technology in 1920, at a different location in Pasadena.

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Southern California architecture, showing the work of Elmer Grey, architect

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[Copies of Architectural Digest photographs]

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Two copies of photographs of residential exteriors taken from Architectural Digest magazine. Exterior views of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Temple residence (John Byers and Edla Muir, architects), and Robert Brigham residence (Wallace Neff, architect).

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Pacific Electric Railway Company letters to Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: letter from Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey to Huntington, 1908 October 2. Also: memo by J. McMillan to Huntington, 1908 September 28.

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Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: memo about payment of architects' fees; report showing expenditures on residence of Howard Huntington, 1907 September 3; papers, blueprints, and photographs related to construction of Huntington residence; copy of letter from Pacific Electric Co. to Huntington, 1908 September 29; certificate of E.O. Nay Co. re: plumbing installation 1910 May 4. Note: five architectural drawings were removed from this folder and placed in the Huntington Institutional Archives in June 1998.

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Johnson, A. Parley: Residence ("Casa de Parley Johnson") (7749 Florence Ave., Downey, California)

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Date built: 1926 Architect: Coate, Roland E. Description: Interior and exterior views of Spanish style residence. Publication(s): Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Parley Johnson, Downey," Architectural Digest, Vol. 7, No. 4, p. 77; "The Home of Mr. and Mrs. Parley Johnson at Downey," California Arts and Architecture, Vol. 36, p. 40, Aug. 1929. Have copy prints. Includes many variants.

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Elmer Grey architectural drawings

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