OPEN TODAY: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.

Tickets

Visual Materials

Objects

Description

Contains materials fragments, paint and stain samples, and other objects, including pieces of walls, ceilings, carpeting, sideboards, and ornamentation including grilles. In a few cases, these materials are the only record of a project in the collection: 132 East Colorado Boulevard; 1746 Hobart Boulevard; and Vineland Hotel. Additionally, Workman Temple and a few West Adams residences and commercial buildings have both photographs and fragments.

These objects were arranged chiefly by previous archivists during the process of conservation.

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.
Associated people
Kelley, H. Roy (1892- ,)
Kelly, Arthur Rolland, (1878-1959,)
Kwan, Raymond, (1894-1980,)
Weil, Martin Eli, (1867-1959,)
Weil, Martin Eli,
Williams, Paul R.,
Wright, Frank Lloyd,
Find out more
View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

You might also be interested in

  • Image not available

    Vermont Square Library - Young Apartments

    Visual Materials

    Includes materials from Vermont Square Library; Villa Riviera; Saint Vincent Jewelry Center; Vineland Hotel; Workman Temple; and Young Apartments. Also includes shingles with original stain and wallpaper from various rooms in Wheeler House, and fragments labeled "West Adams building."

    archWeil

  • Image not available

    Carpeting

    Visual Materials

    Contains two pieces of carpeting.

    archWeil

  • Image not available

    Posters and stain samples

    Visual Materials

    Contains one poster depicting dark stain on white painted trim and two posters depicting interior and exterior finishes from 1915-1935. Also contains a sleeve with samples labeled "typical Craftsman colors." These materials were found together with the posters in Folder OV 2.

    archWeil

  • Image not available

    Fragments and pieces, Hollyhock House and Residence A

    Visual Materials

    Contains fragments from Rooms 1, 4-12, 16, 18-19, Servants' dining room, and Music Room; also contains fragments from Residence A.

    archWeil

  • Image not available

    Series IV. Project Records

    Visual Materials

    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.

    archWeil

  • Image not available

    Photographs

    Visual Materials

    Contains photographic prints and photograph albums that were filed separately from those in the Files subseries; also includes photographic negatives. In a few instances, the photographs in this subseries are the only documentation found in this collection for a project; this is the case with photographs from Alta Loma Packing; Citrus State Park; Cooper Regional Museum Upland; Los Angeles City Hall; Pasadena Playhouse Theater Area; Phillips Mansion; Rancho Camulos; Virginia Robinson Gardens; Rose City Dental; W. R. Rowland Adobe; Santa Monica City Hall, Council Chamber; and Strawberry Banke and Maine. The collection contains both photographs and fragments and samples from Workman Temple and West Adams residences/commercial buildings.

    archWeil