Hunt and Burns, Architects (Partnership)

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Silas Reese Burns Jr., Sumner P. Hunt

Active 1910-1930

Firm Notes

Silas R. Burns, Jr., retired from this Los Angeles architectural partnership in 1930, but Myron Hunt went on to practice alone until c. 1938.

PCAD id: 411

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
Automobile Club of Southern California, Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA1921-1923Los AngelesCA
Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA1910Los AngelesCA
Ebell Club, Clubhouse #3, Wilshire Boulevard, Windsor Village, Los Angeles, CA1926-1927Los AngelesCA
Ebell Club, Clubhouse, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA1912-1913Los AngelesCA
Ebell Club, Clubhouse, Pomona, CAPomonaCA
Hall, E.S., House, Ojai Valley, CA1911Ojai ValleyCA
Hotel Maryland #1, Old Pasadena, Pasadena, CA 1903-1904PasadenaCA
House, Henry C., House, Oak Knoll, Pasadena, CA1914PasadenaCA
Isaacs, Louis, House, Windsor Square, Los Angeles, CA1916-1917Los AngelesCA
Los Angeles Public Library, Vermont Square BranchLos AngelesCA
McKevett, A.C., House, Santa Paula, CA1911Santa PaulaCA
McKinley, Maytor H., House, Lafayette Park, Westlake, Los Angeles, CA 1917Los AngelesCA
Scottish Rite Temple, Santa Fe, NM1911-1912Santa FeNM
Scripps College, Balch, Janet Jacks, Hall, Claremont, CA1929ClaremontCA
Wayside Inn, Ventura, CA1910VenturaCA
Wilshire Country Club #1, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), Building, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA

Publications

"Hunt, Sumner P., Obituary", Architect & Engineer, 11/1938. "Auditorium, Balch Academic Hall, Scripps College, Claremont, Sumner Hunt and S.R. Burns, Architects", Architect and Engineer, 111: 1, 27-29, 10/1932. Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 311-312, 1970. Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 100-101, 1970. "Wilshire Country Club leased Hancock land", Historical Observer, 2: 1, 1-2, "G. Allan Hancock's interest laid groundwork for Wilshire Country Club", Larchmont Chronicle, 06/1992. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 290, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 196, 1994. "Architects Hunt and Burns prepare plans or E.S. Hall residence in the Ojai Valley", Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2, col 1, 12/19/1911. "Historic-Cultural Monuments", Los Angeles Times, 46, 1987-11-19. "Colleges Plan New Buildings", Los Angeles Times, A16, 9/7/1928. "Hotel Maryland #1 addition proposed", Los Angeles Times, V: 1, 1910-02-13. "Burns, Silas Reese, Obituary", Los Angeles Times, 8/11/1940. Malnic, Eric, "2 Found Dead in Blaze at Historic Mansion: Lafayette Park: A former showplace, the McKinley building was long abandoned. The victims may have been transients", Los Angeles Times, B10, 1994-05-24. "McKevett House plans", Los Angeles Weekly Journal, 2, col 1, 12/19/1911. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Automobile Club of Southern California", Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide, 267, 1994. "Hunt, Sumner P. Note", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 39, 1/11/1924. "Ebell Club, Pomona Notice", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 55, col. 1, 2/15/1924. Bradshaw, Jon, "The Club Game", West, 13, 08/06/1972. "Hunt, Sumner P.", Who Was Who in America, 1897-1942, 1943. Who's Who in American Art, 1947, 4: 1947.
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