Whittlesey, Charles F., Architect (Practice)

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Charles Frederick Whittlesey

Firm Notes

In 1908, the Los Angeles Classified Business Directory indicated that the name of Whittlesey's firm was Charles F. Whittlesey and Company. At this time, it occupied the 7th floor of the Auditorium Building. (See Los Angeles Classified Business Directory, 1908,p. 1599.)

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
1230 Taylor Street Apartment Building, Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA 1909San FranciscoCA
2384 Loma Vista Place House, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), Alvarado Hotel and Albuquerque Depot, Albuquerque, NM1904AlbuquerqueNM
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), Depot, Berkeley, CA1903BerkeleyCA
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), Employees Hospital, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA1903-1905Los AngelesCA
Babbitt, George J., Sr., and Philomena Wessel, House, Northeast Hill, Flagstaff, AZ 1905FlagstaffAZ
Bartlett, W.S., House, Los Angeles, CA1905Los AngelesCA
Bryan, E.P., House, Los Angeles, CA1905Los AngelesCA
Crematorium, Los Angeles, CA1904Los AngelesCA
El Rey Hotel, Los Angeles, CA1924Los AngelesCA
Fisher House, San Francisco, CA1908San FranciscoCA
Fred Harvey Company, El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ1903-1905Grand Canyon VillageAZ
Glassell, Alfred, House, Los Angeles, CA1905Los AngelesCA
Hayward Hotel, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1905Los AngelesCA
Hayward Hotel, Orange Grove Cafe, Los Angeles, CA1929Los AngelesCA
Lindsay, Lycurgus House, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Livermore-Whittlesey Houses, San Francisco, CA1913San FranciscoCA
Pacific Building, South of Market, San Francisco, CA1907San FranciscoCA
Padre Hotel, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1925-1926Los AngelesCA
Riverside School District 96, Central Elementary School, Riverside, IL1897RiversideIL
Temple Auditorium and Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 1905-1906Los AngelesCA
Wentworth Hotel Corporation, Wentworth Hotel, Pasadena, CA1905-1907PasadenaCA
West Bank Building, Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA1907-1908San FranciscoCA

Publications

Whittlesey, Charles F., "Reinforced Concrete Construction--Why I Believe in It. by Chas. F. Whittlesey, Architect.", Archiect and Engineer of California, XII: 2, 1908-03. "Pacific Building, San Francisco", Architect & Engineer of California, 93, 05/1908. Gester, William B., "The National Cement Users Convention", Architect and Engineer, 61, 02/1906. "Class A Hotel", Architect and Engineer, 107, 01/1918. Whittlesey, Charles F., "California's Largest Reinforced Concrete Building", Architect and Engineer, 82-86, 03/1906. "Reinforced Concrete Test", Architect and Engineer, 62, 02/1906. "Bartlett, W.S., House article", Architect and Engineer of California, 55, 09/1908. "Fisher House, San Francisco", Architect and Engineer of California, 59, 10/1908. Whittlesey, Charles, "California's largest reinforced concrete building", Architect and Engineer of California, 18-26, 03/1906. Whittlesey, Charles F., "The color scheme of the Pacific Building", Architect and Engineer of California, 34-38, 12/1907. "Pacific Building, San Francisco plate", Architect and Engineer of California, 43, 03/1908. "Concrete Construction", Architect and Engineer of California, 43, 12/1905. Woodbridge, Sally B., Woodbridge, John B., Architecture San Francisco: The Guide, 6, 1982. "Hayward Hotel advertisement", Arrowhead, 32, 4/1907. Zaitlin, Joyce, Gilbert Stanley Underwood His Rustic, Art Deco and Federal Architecture, 21-24, 1989. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 391, 1994. "Hayward Hotel, Los Angeles, note", Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2, col 1, 9/22/1905. "Hayward Hotel, Los Angeles plans", Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2, col 2, 8/14/1905. "Santa Fe Employees Hospital article", Los Angeles Examiner, 6, 2/18/1904. "Huntington will be Sheraton no longer", Los Angeles Times, 1, 11/12/1987. "Santa Fe Employees Hospital", Los Angeles Times, part II: 16, 7/12/1903. "Restaurant at Hayward (Hotel) will open this week", Los Angeles Times, part V: 3, 10/20/1929. "For W.S. Bartlett", Los Angeles Times, 1, 08/07/1904. "To make more room at top", Los Angeles Times, part V: 1, 9/24/1916. "Hayward hotel plans addition on 6th street", Los Angeles Times, part V: 1, 3/29/1925. "Hayward Hotel steel contracts given to Baker", Los Angeles Times, part V: 9, 5/17/1925. "Hayward hotel with annex", Los Angeles Times, part V: 9, 8/30/1925. "Hospital to be opened in July", Los Angeles Times, part II: 1, 3/12/1905. "Padre Hotel plans, Hollywood", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 55, col 2, 1/23/1925. "Padre Hotel initial announcement", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 54, col 2, 11/21/1924. Schmitt, Ronald E., Sullivanesque Urban Architecture and Ornamentation, 268, 2002. Westbank Building A Modern Fireproof Office Building, Who's Who in American Art, 1947, 4: 1947.
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