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Harvard Heights Neighborhood
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Contains files reflecting Weil's work to support the creation of a Historic Protection Overlay Zone (HPOZ) for Harvard Heights, including historic documentation and notes on individual streets. Also includes maps, notes from a tour of homes given by Weil in 1988 (Folder 33), and some correspondence, including letters of thanks to Weil from the Getty Conservation Institute (Folder 37) and the Santa Monica Heritage Square Museum Society (Folder 38).
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Writings and Related Research
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This collection contains the personal and professional papers of architect Martin Eli Weil (1940-2009), relating to Weil's work as a restoration architect and consultant in Los Angeles and Southern California. The collection contains correspondence; project and business records; reports; contracts; notes and research files; appointment books; drawings, including approximately 2920 rolled drawings; approximately 5000 photographs, chiefly snapshots depicting work in progress; material samples, including approximately 2000 fragments of wood or other surfaces containing paint samples; and 46 media files documenting the career of Martin Eli Weil; the materials date from 1964 until 2009. Files document 428 individual projects, including Frank Lloyd Wright structures such as Barnsdall Park and Hollyhock House; the restoration of the El Capitan Theater; and jobs undertaken as a consultant for the cities of San Gabriel, La Verne, Porterville, and Monrovia, California. The collection also includes papers reflecting Weil's service as Restoration Services Director for the Restoration Services Division of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in Canada from 1971-1978; his work as an instructor in historic preservation at the University of Southern California from 1981-2009; his writing, chiefly as an architecture columnist for the Larchmont Chronicle; his involvement with the Harvard Heights community in Los Angeles, where he lived; and his Master's thesis project.
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Restoration Services Division and other Canadian reports
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Six reports published by agencies in Ottawa, Canada, including the Restoration Services Division, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs; Heritage Ottawa; and the Architectural Inventory Group. Two of the Restoration Services Division reports, "Fish Cache, Fort St. James National Historic Park, Architectural Feasibility Study" (1973) (Folder 1) and "1708 Powder Magazine. Fort Anne National Historic Park, Annapolis Royal, N.S., Restoration Feasibility Study" (1974) (Folder 3), list Weil as co-author. Also includes an offprint of an article, "A Canadian Perspective on Legislation and the Role of the Private sector in Archaeology," originally published in Historical Archaeology, Volume 12, 1978.
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Awards
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Contains a 1997 City of Los Angeles Historic Preservation Award of Excellence for Weil's work on the El Capitan Theater and Office Building and a plaque by the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada celebrating "Forty Years of Gratitude to Our Founder, Martin Eli Weil." The provenance of the plaque is unknown; presumably, it was presented to Weil in or before 2009.
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Scrapbook and curricula vitae
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Scrapbook contains clippings of Weil's life and work from the mid-1980s until the end of the 1990s, plus a bibliography of his writings from 1977-1996. The box also contains a folder with several versions of Weil's curriculum vitae dating approximately 2006-2008, and a copy of his business card, printed from digital files.
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Series IV. Project Records
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This series forms the bulk of the collection and comprises project files, which may include contracts, specifications, correspondence, drawings, photographs, invoices, research materials, and information about particular rooms or features in a given job; and materials separated from these files by Weil, including photographs, chiefly snapshots of work in progress; rolled drawings; objects, comprising mostly materials fragments and paint samples; and audiovisual and electronic media. For details about the individual projects including box and folder numbers for papers, drawings, photographs, and other materials; clients and collaborators; addresses and neighborhoods; project dates; scope of Weil's work; titles of reports authored or co-authored by Weil; original architects and historic designations; awards; titles and dimensions of rolled drawings; and other information, please see the Project Index.
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