Hunt and Chambers, Architects (Partnership)

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Harold Coulson Chambers Sr., Fitch Harrison Haskell, Aubrey Horn, Myron Hubbard Hunt, Kemper Nomland Sr.

Active 1920-1947

Firm Notes

Architects Myron H. Hunt (1868-1952) and Harold C. Chambers (1885-1971) worked in Los Angeles and its vicinity.

Myron Hunt worked on his own from 1908-1920. Harold Coulson Chambers started working with Hunt as a draftsman in 1907, when the latter was still a partner with architect Elmer Grey, (1903-1908), and gradually worked his way up to partner in 1920.

The Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, holds the papers of architect Myron Hunt, which also include those for the firm of Hunt and Chambers. (See Online Archive of California.org, Huntington LIbrary.org, "Myron Hunt Papers: Finding Aid," accessed 04/21/2020.) Some archival documents on Myron Hunt and the work of Hunt and Chambers are also housed at the Architecture and Design Collection of the University Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

PCAD id: 327

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
Baker Shoe Store, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA 1929Los AngelesCA
Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation, Flintridge Biltmore Hotel, La Cañada Flintridge, CA1926La Cañada FlintridgeCA
City of Pasadena, Public Library, Main Library #3, Civic Center, Pasadena, CA1925-1927PasadenaCA
County National Bank Building, Santa Barbara, CA1924-1927Santa BarbaraCA
George Junior Republic, Fowler, Margaret B., Auditorium, Chino Hills, CA1938-1939Chino HillsCA
Kellogg, W.K., Ranch House, Pomona, CAPomonaCA
Magnin, I., Department Store, Beverly Hills, CA1939Beverly HillsCA
Magnin, I., Department Store, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr., House, Ocean Bluffs, Palos Verdes Estates, CA1925-1927Palos Verdes EstatesCA
Palos Verdes Public Library, Malaga Cove Branch, Palos Verdes Estates, CA1926-1930Palos Verdes EstatesCA
Redlands Community Hospital, Redlands, CARedlandsCA
San Marcos Building, Downtown, Santa Barbara, CA1913Santa BarbaraCA
San Marcos Hotel, Chandler, AZ1912-1913ChandlerAZ
Surf and Sand Club, Hermosa Beach, CA 1923-1925Hermosa BeachCA
Weith, W.S., House, Beverly Hills, CA1927Beverly HillsCA
Wilkes' Vine Street Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1926-1927Los AngelesCA

Publications

"Vermont Marble Ad The Modernistic Movement Plate 4", American Architect, 139: 2591, 131, 01/1931. "Chambers, H(arold) C(oulson)", American Architects Directory 1956, 1st edition: 89, 1955. Wheeler, Joseph L., Githens, Alfred Morton, American Public Library Building, 82, 1941. Wheeler, Joseph L., Githens, Alfred Morton, American Public Library Building, 69, 1941. "Weith House, Beverly Hills article", Architect & Engineer, 85, 87, 5/1927. "Obituary Myron Hunt", Architect & Engineer, 35, 8/1952. "Kellogg, W.K., Ranch House, Pomona", Architectural Digest, 7: 1, 4-15, 1928. "Palos Verdes Public Library, Palos Verdes Estates, California, Myron C. Hunt and H.C. Chambers, Architects", Architectural Forum, LVI: 6, 597-598, 1932-06. "Flintridge Hotel 1928", Arrowhead, 18, 9/1928. "Flintridge Biltmore Hotel 1929", California Arts and Architecture, 36, 8/1929. Barker Brothers, Furnishing for Public Service, 50-51, c1929. "La Vina Sanatorium, Altadena, Calif.", Journal of the American Institiute of Architects, VIII: 4, 163, 10/1947. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "I. Magnin Department Store", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 128, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Palos Verdes Public Library, 1926-30", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 54, 1994. "Hostelry leased at Flintridge", Los Angeles Times, I: 6, 6/9/1928. Starr, Kevin, "Materializing History", Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s, 191-200, 1990. Baxter Art Gallery, Myron Hunt, 1868-1952 The Search for a Regional Architecture, 110, 1984. "Plans for the Frederick Law Olmsted residence, Palos Verdes", Pacific Coast Architect, 9, 17, 1927-04. "Flintridge Hotel notice 1927", Saturday Night, Front cover, 2, 12/31/1927. "Additions to the San Marcos Hotel, Chandler, AZ", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 49, col 1, 1/25/1924. "County National Bank Building, Santa Barbara", Southwest Builder & Contractor, 46, 3/28/1924. "Firm of Hunt and Chambers win AIA award for design of Flintridge Biltmore Hotel", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 32, 3/21/1930. "Firm of Hunt and Chambers win AIA award for design of Pasadena Public Library", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 30, 32, 3/21/1930. "Residence of F.L. Olmsted in Palos Verdes, California", Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst, 12: 8, 369-371, 1928.

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