Résumé

Apprentice, White, Architect, Ashtabula, OH, c. 1900.

Superintendent, Construction Company, Ashtabula, OH, c. 1905.

Principal, Orville L. Clark, Architect and Engineer, Bakersfield, CA, c. 1915. In 1923, Clark maintained an office in Room #401 of the Brower Building. He was one of three architects listed in Bakersfield's Classified Business Directory for that year, the other two being Charles H. Biggar and E.K. Martin. (See the Polk-Husted Directory Company's Bakersfield City Directory, 1923, Classified Business Directory, n.p.)

College

Mathematics and Mechanics, New Lyme Institute, New Lyme, OH, c. 1900.

Relocation

Born in Cleveland, OH, Clark became orphaned at an early age; his primary education occurred in Cleveland, but he moved to Huntsburg, OH, east of Cleveland, where he attended high school. He studied mathematics and mechanics at the New Lyme Institute, New Lyme, OH. While in school here, he also apprenticed with an architect named White in Ashtabula, OH. Due to health problems, he worked in the open air as a carpenter, and became a superintendent in an Ashtabula construction firm.

Clark migrated to Los Angeles, CA, in 1907, and relocated to Bakersfield, CA, in 1908. He established a successful practice here, producing designs for houses as well as hotels and apartment buildings.