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Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - public buildings - health and welfare buildings
Designers: Spaulding, Rex and DeSwarte, Architects and Engineers (firm); Clarence Gordon DeSwarte (structural engineer); John Leon Rex (architect); Sumner Maurice Spaulding (architect)
Dates: [unspecified]
In a January 1947 article in Arts and Architecture, only Spaulding and Rex were credited with this design. (See "A Shop for the Barret Textile Corporation," Arts and Architecture, 64:1, January 1947, p. 33)
The Red Cross Chapter House, Los Angeles, CA, won an Honor Award from the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 01/1947. The Awards Committee consisted of George B. Allison, Chair, Pierpont Davis, John Rex, and Byron Tharaldson; this committee invited John W. Root, FAIA, of Burnham and Root, Architects, Chicago, IL, Pietro Belluschi, Architect, Portland, OR, and Ernest Born, Architect, San Francisco, CA, to act as judges for the awards program that was halted between the years 1938-1946.
PCAD id: 7218