Davis and Davis, Architects (Partnership)

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Olive Chaydeane, Francis Pierpont Davis, Walter Swindell Davis, George Julius Lind, Henry Franklin Withey

Active 1916-

Building Notes

This prominent firm working in Los Angeles, CA, designed a great number of large-scale residential works in the 1920s, many of them in the Spanish Colonial or Mediterranean Revival vein. Henry F. Withey was a prominent designer for the firm.

PCAD id: 331

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
Churchill House, Los Angeles, CA1928Los AngelesCA
Churchill, Thomas A., Sr., House, Los Angeles, CA1907Los AngelesCA
Davis, F. Pierpont, and Gertrude Churchill, House, Hancock Park, Los Angeles, CA1920-1921Los AngelesCA
Desmond, Courtney, House, Los Angeles, CA1923Los AngelesCA
El Greco Apartments, Los Angeles, CA1929Los AngelesCA
Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, Saint John the Episcopal Cathedral #2, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA1923-1925Los AngelesCA
Karlson, Norman and Shannon, House, Los Angeles, CA1929Los AngelesCA
La Venta Inn, Palos Verdes Estates, CA1923Palos Verdes EstatesCA
Los Angeles Public Library, Echo Park Branch #2, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA1927-1928Los AngelesCA
Nickols, Thomas, House, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Normandie Village, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Ramona Gardens Public Housing, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Roman Gardens Apartments, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1926Los AngelesCA
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Alpha Theta Sorority House, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1930Los AngelesCA
Villa d'Este Apartments, West Hollywood, CA1927West HollywoodCA
Yust, Lawrence and Clara, House, Hancock Park, Los Angeles, CA1921Los AngelesCA

Publications

"Davis, F. Pierpont House article 1922", Architectural Digest, Southern California Edition: 1922. Giovaninni, Joseph, "Sleeping Beauty", Architectural Digest, 62: 2, 224-231, 2/1905. "Portfolio of Libraries", Architectural Record, 72: 1, 59, 07/1932. Wright, Henry, "The Modern Apartment House", Architectural Record, 65: 272-276, 1929-03. Hand Book of the Branch Libraries, 1928. Davis, Francis Pierpont, Davis, Walter Swindell, Ideal Homes in Garden Communities, 1916. Davis, Francis Pierpont, Davis, Walter Swindell, Ideal Homes in Garden Communities, A Book of Stock Plans, 1916. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Roman Gardens, 1926", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 149, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "La Venta Inn", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 56, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 298-299, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Villa D'Este", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 141, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 144, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 188, 1994. Green, Emily, "Where the world is abloom", Los Angeles Times, F13-F15, 4/24/2003. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "St. John's Episcopal Church", Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide, 267, 1994. Berger, Richard, Sacred Spaces Historic Houses of Worship in the City of Angels, 22-26, 2003. "Alpha Theta Sorority", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 58, col. 2, 1930-04-18. "Echo Park Branch, Los Angeles Library", Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society, 01/1931.
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