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Residence A
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Collage and Barnsdall Park Millwork Schedule
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The collage features newspaper articles, event programs, photographs, and handwritten text concerning Weil's work with the Los Angeles Conservancy; most of the materials on the collage are dated 1985. The millwork schedule is a photographic reproduction of a poster showing Frank Lloyd Wright's drawings for millwork for Barnsdall Park, Residence A, 1924.
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Posters
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Folders contain one collage and seven posters on poster board created by Weil; it is possible that the posters were used in teaching. Also includes one poster showing Frank Lloyd Wright's drawings for millwork for Barnsdall Park.
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U-W (Rolls 149-161)
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See Series II, Subseries A: Writings and Related Research, Paul Williams drawings, for information about the drawings in Box 114, Rolls 159-160; and Series II, Subseries F: Posters and Drawings, for information about Frank Lloyd Wright drawings, Box 114, Roll 161.
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Drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright for exhibition
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Six reprographic copies of original drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright from roll originally labeled "'60 Years of Living Architecture' - Exhibition Pavilion for L.A., Frank Lloyd Wright."
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Publications, 1990-2002
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Titles from the 1990s include American Bungalow, Angeles, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Architecture, Classic Home, Historic Preservation, Journal of the Taliesin Fellows, and Old House Journal. Titles from the 2000s include Architectural Record (May 2000) and Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly (Volume 13, Numbers 2 and 3, Spring and Summer 2002); the issue of Architectural Record contains many Post-it notes, which have been left in place, and the issues of Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly contain the feature, "Conserving Wright's Architecture," Parts 1 and 2, the latter with an image of Hollyhock House on its cover.
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Reynolds Residence (Marx Residence)
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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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