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Rancho Los Alamitos - Storer House

Description: Includes materials from Rancho Los Alamitos; Rancho Los Cerritos; Virginia Robinson Gardens; Rose City Dental; San Gabriel Bank; Santa Clarita Historical Society; South Pasadena High School Auditorium; and South Seas House. Also includes piece of an original cast-concrete block designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Storer House, 1923.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1964-2009.
Call number: archWeil
Creator: Weil, Martin Eli(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of the Estate of Martin E. Weil, February 2010.; Gift of Peter and June Weil, June 2014.

Storer House

Visual Materials

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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Seal Beach - Swan

Visual Materials

Projects include: Seal Beach Naval Station; Selzer Residence; Sepulveda House; Shaw Residence; Shay Residences; Shriver Residence; Simkins Residence; Siqueiros Mural; Sisters of Social Service Residence; Smith Residence; Sohnen Residence; Sosin Residence; South Pasadena High School Auditorium; South Seas House; Southwest Museum; C. C. Stafford Milling and Warehouse Company; Stipanov Residence, Job 9116; Storer House; Stuyvesant Fish House; and Swan Residence

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Photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings

Visual Materials

Two photograph albums showing work on Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, including Storer House.

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Porterville - Reynolds

Visual Materials

Projects include: City of Porterville, California; Ramsay-Durfee Estate, Job 9552; Rancho Los Alamitos, Job 9558; Rancho Los Cerritos; Rance Residence; Reinke/Milligan Residence; and Reynolds Residence (aka Marx Residence), Jobs 9103 and 9117.

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Culbertson House - Felton School

Visual Materials

Includes materials from Culbertson House; Darling House; The Ebell Club of Los Angeles; Emerson School; Ennis House; and Felton School House (Mentryville Historic Site).

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Rancho Los Alamitos owned by Don Abel Stearns

Manuscripts

Bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Rancho Los Sierritos [Cerritos], Rancho Bolsa Chica,. Rancho Los Coyotes. [Map must be after February 23, 1857 when district court affirmed the claim.]. Inset of table listing distances. Magnetic Meridian Var. 13° 30' east. T. 4 S.R. 11 W.. T. 5 S.R. 11 W.. T. 4 S.R. 12 W.. Color highlights. Includes wetlands and waterways, hachures. Originally granted to Don Juan Jose Nieto by Governor Jose Figueroa 1833

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