PCAD - Smith and Williams, Architects

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Robert Paul Meyerhof, Whitney Rowland Smith, Wayne Richard Williams

Active 1946-1973

Archival documents on Smith and Williams housed at the Architecture and Design Collection of the University Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); Robert Meyerhof joined the firm in 1955 and was a Partner by at least 1970; one source, a biographical entry on Meyerhof in the American Architects Directory 1970, p. 619, indicated that the firm was organized in 1949; firm was located in Pasadena, CA; Whitney Smith left Smith and Williams in 1973.

PCAD id: 322

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Blue Ribbon Tract Housing, Reseda, Los Angeles, CA	1953	Los Angeles	CA
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), Residence Halls, Pomona, CA	1968	Pomona	CA
Child Guidance Clinic, Pasadena, CA	1960	Pasadena	CA
City of Buena Park, City Hall, Buena Park, CA	1958	Buena Park	CA
County of Kern, California City Master Plan, California City, CA
Crowell, R., House
Friend Paper Company, Building, Pasadena, CA	1963-1965	Pasadena	CA
Girls' Camp, Los Angeles, CA		Los Angeles	CA
Mission Bay Park Master Plan, San Diego, CA		San Diego	CA
Mobil Gas Station, Harbor Boulevard, Anaheim		Anaheim	CA
Mutual Housing Association Houses, Brentwood, Los Angeles, CA	1947-1951	Los Angeles	CA
Neighborhood Church, Pasadena, CA		Pasadena	CA
Scripps College, Thatcher Music Building, Claremont, CA		Claremont	CA
Smith and Williams Architects Offices, South Pasadena, CA		South Pasadena	CA

Publications

American Architects Directory 1970, Third edition: 997, 1970. "Help Save the Smith & Williams 1414 Building!", Bulletin of the Pasadena and Foothill Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 58: 7, 5, 10, 7/2004. Mid-Century Architecture in America, 134, 1961. Eckardt, Wolf Von, "Whitney R. Smith, A. Quincy Jones, Edgardo Contini", Mid-Century Architecture in America, 202, 1961. Eckardt, Wolf Von, "Smith and Williams", Mid-Century Architecture in America, 207, 1961. Williams, Wayne R, Recreation Places, 1958. Eckbo, Garrett, Urban Landscape Design, 33, 1964.

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Award-winning architect designed Modernist buildings throughout the Southland

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