PCAD - Woollett, William Lee, Architect

Aerial view of the Homer Laughlin Building (center) and the Million Dollar Theatre Building (right), Los Angeles, CA, c. 2019. From Google Maps/Street View

Construction photo of the monolithic reinforced concrete trusses supporting the theatre roof, Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre, Los Angeles, c. 1922; from "Great Balcony in New Grauman Theater Shows Slight Deflection under Test," Southwest Builder and Contractor, no. 1527, 06/30/1922, p. 15

Exterior view of the Metropolitan Theatre while "The Mikado of Jazz" was being performed there, Los Angeles, CA, 1928. From University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Society and Culture Collection, Rene Irene Grage Photograph and Ephemera Collection. PH Coll 1229, Item #SOC8271

Postcard of Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre and Office Building. Los Angeles, c. 1923; from Los Angeles Theatres Blogspot.com

Site map of Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre, location, Los Angeles, 1923; from Baist's Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Los Angeles, 1923, (Philadelphia: G.W. Baist Company, 1923), pl. 2

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William Lee Woollett

Woollett located his practice in Los Angeles, CA;

PCAD id: 220

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Berkeley Piano Club, Berkeley, CA	1912	Berkeley	CA
Borrego Valley Defense Program, Airfield Project, Salton Sea, CA	1942	Salton Sea	CA
City of Los Angeles, Public Library (LAPL), Malabar Branch #2, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA	1926-1927	Boyle Heights, Los Angeles	CA
City of Oakland, Parks Department, Linda Vista Park, Oakland, CA	1933-1937	Oakland	CA
Eastman, George Lockwood, House, West Hollywood, CA	1926	West Hollywood	CA
Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre and Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1921-1923	Los Angeles	CA
Hotel Royal, Oakland, CA	1912-1913	Oakland	CA
Iten, John J., House, Lake Arrowhead, CA	1930	Lake Arrowhead	CA
Lakeside Country Club, Toluca Lake, CA	1924-1925	Los Angeles	CA
Million Dollar Theatre, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1917-1918	Los Angeles	CA
Quinn's Rialto Theatre, Los Angeles, CA	1916-1917	Los Angeles	CA
Van Rensselaer Inn, Troy, NY		Troy	NY
Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited, Building, San Francisco, CA		San Francisco	CA

Publications

Naylor, David, American Picture Palaces The Architecture of Fantasy, 83-84, 1981. Naylor, David, American Picture Palaces The Architecture of Fantasy, 83, 85, 217, 1981. "West Hollywood residence", Architect & Engineer, 75, 5/1927. "Grauman's Metropolitan Theater", Architect and Engineer, 73: 2, 51-85, 1923-05. "Metropolitan Theatre", Concrete in Architecture, 28-39, 1927. "Boyle Heights libraries renovations underway", Eastside Sun, 02/21/1991. "Eastman most valuable Los Angeles citizen in'28", Los Angeles Examiner, 1/13/1929. Jones, Roger E., "Decoratively, artistically, architecturally - it presents something unique and beautiful: the Million Dollar Theatre, Los Angeles, California", Marquee, 34: 2, 6-13, 32, 2002. "George Lockwood Eastman article", Southern California Business, 24, 10/1928. "Eastman House preliminary plans", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 43, col 1, 11/2/1923. "Woollett, William Lee Notice", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 11, col. 3, 1920-08-06. "McClain House plans, Beverly Hills", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 12, col 3, 08/20/1920. "Iten, John J., House plans, Lake Arrowhead", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 58, col 2, 06/20/1930. Ingels, Margaret, Willis Haviland Carrier Father of Air Conditioning, 144-145, 1952.

Links

Berkeley Landmarks designated in 2005 Broadway Historic Theaters History of the Malabar Branch, Los Angeles Public Library Related Links Rialto Theatre