PCAD - Austin and Brown, Architects

Photograph of the Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, c. 1910; from the Detroit Publishing Company, Image #071887

Postcard view of the Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, c. 1922; from the author's collection, postcard published for S.H. Kress and Company

Postcard view of the Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, c. 1925. From the author's collection, postcard by the Western Publishing and Novelty Company, Card #A79823

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William Horace Austin Jr.

Active c. 1906

Firm Notes

Austin and Brown practiced in Southern California c. 1905.

PCAD id: 3475

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Bixby Hotel, Waterfront, Long Beach, CA	1906-1908	Long Beach	CA

Publications

"Bixby Hotel", Architect and Engineer of California, 70, 04/1906. Keough, T.E., "Failure of the Bixby Hotel", Architect and Engineer of California, 67-70, 12/1906. Schulze, Henry A., "Says Bixby hotel construction was not true concrete", Architect and Engineer of California, 71, 12/1906. McKaig, Thomas H., Building Failures Case Studies in Construction and Design, 29-30, 1962. "Nobody Censured for Bixby Horror", Los Angeles Times, 1, 11/13/1906. "Bixby Hotel", Los Angeles Times, 22, 11/04/1923. "With Thousand Tons of Concrete Twelve Men Go down to Death", Los Angeles Times, 1, 10/10/1906. "Supposed Corpses Go Up To Rescue", Los Angeles Times, I6, 11/11/1906.