Manuscripts

California - Plans for private residence

Description: Includes: plans for Shorb residence, Fred R. Dorn architect, Los Angeles.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1903
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin L. Lewis, November 1939.; Gift of Louise Ward Watkins, July 1946.; Gift of Collis Holladay, April 1967.; Gift of Mrs. Collis H. Holladay, 1977-1981.; Gift of Clifford Henry, May 1978.; Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, 1978-1992.

Blueprints

Manuscripts

The blueprints range from standard prints to materials removed from volumes of varying condition, and facsimiles. This subseries contains the plans for Huntington's San Marino residence, which includes the blueprints of each level of the house. The blueprints show the involvement of architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey. The private residence plans detail the construction of the Shorb residence by architect Fred R. Dorn and details each level of the house. The plans for the railroad equipment reveal the capital resources employed by the Pacific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles Railway Co., Pullman Company, and St. Louis Car Company. Finally, the plans for the Pacific Electric building include ephemera, specifically letters from the Los Angeles Railway Company to Huntington, dated 1903, and the infrastructural activity of the Pacific Light and Power Corporation, Pacific Electric Railway Co., and the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway Company.

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Rolled plans and sketches for proposed residence at 2249 E. Crescent Drive, Altadena for Ludwig Lauerhass

Visual Materials

Includes plans by E. D. Stone, Thomas Church, Thom Jones, architect, and Arthur Kelly and Joseph R. Kelly, architects. Residence never built.

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California - Plans for Huntington residence

Manuscripts

Subjects: Myron Hunt, Elmer Grey, Hunt & Grey.

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California - Plans for railroad equipment

Manuscripts

Subjects: Pacific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles Railway Co., Pullman Company, St. Louis Car Company.

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Pullman Company plans for private car

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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Inventories of the Art Gallery and residence

Manuscripts

Several inventories of the Art Gallery, the Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Collection, and statues on the property. Some were made for insurance purposes. Also a copy of "Residence of Henry E. Huntington, Esq. Particulars for Handbook."

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