Visual Materials
Non-residential Projects by Project Title
- Description
The Non-residential Projects by Project Title subseries consist of 2,880 black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, black-and-white prints; and 4 presentation albums, circa 1935-1969 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker, and documenting non-residential projects for which there is no identifiable client. Projects include commercial buildings (retail and office spaces), hotels, restaurants, military bases, furniture showrooms, decorator shows, hospitals, and schools, and various miscellaneous subjects such as portraits, street scenes, landscapes, and unidentified non-residential subjects. Commercial, office, and retail spaces include the Linda Vista Shopping Center in San Diego; interiors of a May Company department store; NBC Radio City in San Francisco; and a Western Air Lines ticket office in Hollywood. Hotels include the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills; Furnace Creek Inn in Death Valley; Garden Grove Sanitarium in Garden Grove, CA; the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood; the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco; the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas; and the Statler Hotel in Los Angeles (now the Wilshire Grand). Military bases and installations include Camp Pendleton, CA; Roosevelt Base in San Pedro, CA; the Naval Weapons Station in Seal Beach, CA; and Wilmington Hall in Long Beach, CA. Schools include the all-girls school La Hacienda del Sol in Tucson.
