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  Martin Eli Weil papers

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  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, the year of Weil's death, with the bulk of the material relating to 428 projects on which Weil worked as a restoration architect and consultant from the time he arrived in Southern California in 1979 until 2008; some of these projects were undertaken as part of larger projects, such as jobs Weil performed while under contract to various municipalities. Of the 428 projects, 406 were included in Weil's project records, found in his filing cabinets; 22 projects are represented in the collection only by either photographs, drawings, or materials samples (objects), without any other project documentation. Rolled drawings comprise both original drawings by Weil and reprographic copies of drawings by original and prior restoration architects that Weil used in his work. The collection documents the wide range of work Weil performed, comprising historic structures reports, microscopic paint analysis, tax act and historic landmark certification, environmental impact and seismic structures analysis, and other restoration and rehabilitation work on structures. Major projects represented include Hollyhock House and other Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in Barnsdall Park as well as Storer House; the El Capitan Theater and Bullock's Department Store in Pasadena; residences including David O. Selznick's home (Joelson Residence); and work Weil undertook as a consultant for the cities of La Verne, San Gabriel, Porterville, and Monrovia, California. Also included are papers reflecting Weil's work as the Restoration Services Director for the Restoration Services Division of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in Canada from 1971-1978; research and teaching materials from his work as a faculty member at the University of Southern California from 1981-2009; documentation of Weil's writings, chiefly as a columnist for the Larchmont Chronicle; correspondence, writings, and research files relating to Weil's community involvement, chiefly his work to support creation of a Historic Protection Overlay Zone in Harvard Heights; and 68 drawings from his Master's thesis project. The materials in the collection are grouped into series designated by the archivist as suggested in the Standard Series for Architecture and Design Records: A Tool for the Arrangement and Description of Archival Collections, developed by Kelcy Shepherd and Waverly Lowell (2010).

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  Articles and research materials

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  Comprises chiefly newspaper articles Weil wrote as a regular columnist for the Larchmont Chronicle (Folders 4-51). Also contains lists of newspaper and magazine articles he published and notes regarding possible topics for columns (Folders 1-3); articles for other publications including the Los Angeles Independent (Folders 52-53) and the West Adams Heritage Association Newsletter (Folders 54-56B); proceedings from the symposium, "America's Heritage: Historic Structures and their Internal Environments" (Pomona, California, 1990), with Weil's contribution, "Investigation and Documentation of the Historic Interior" (Folder 57); a typescript for an article about Sumner Hunt (Folder 66) and notes and research files on various topics (Folders 61-72). Notably, Folder 65 contains a typescript, correspondence, and notes concerning Weil's thoughts on Hollywood, including a typescript, "Consideration of Hollywood, California, as a Historic Area" (1977). Additionally, reprographic copies of architectural drawings by Paul Williams located in Box 114, Rolls 159-160 may be related to the report by Williams included in Box 125, Folder 72, regarding specifications for the residence and garage of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hallett.

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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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  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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  M (Rolls 85-97)

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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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  Broadway

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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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