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Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - stores
Designers: Spaulding, Rex and DeSwarte, Architects and Engineers (firm); Clarence Gordon DeSwarte (structural engineer); John Leon Rex (architect); Sumner Maurice Spaulding (architect)
Dates: constructed 1946
Spaulding, Rex and Deswarte remodeled an existing space to create the Barret Textile Shop. 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 Barret Textile Corporation Shop won an Honor Award from the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in January 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: 7230
