PCAD - Young, Robert Brown, Architect

Baist real estate map of Los Angeles, showing Hotel Westminster location, 1921; from the University of Southern California (USC), Libraries, Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection. Baist's Real Estate Atlas Surveys, Los Angeles, CA, 1923, (Philadelphia, George W. Baist, 1923), pl. 2

Close-up view of Baist real estate map of Los Angeles, showing Hotel Westminster location, 1921; from the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries. Baist's Real Estate Atlas Surveys, Los Angeles, CA, 1923, (Philadelphia, George W. Baist, 1923), pl. 2

Distant view looking north down Main Street toward the Hotel Rosslyn #1 (center) from the Pacific Electric Building, Los Angeles, CA, 1907. From the University of Southern California. Libraries, California Historical Society, Item #CHS-5817

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Gustaf Axel Edelsvard, August Wackerbarth, Francis Wilson Young, Robert Brown Young

Firm Notes

Architect Robert Brown Young worked in Los Angeles, CA, during the 1880s until his death in 1914. He usually went by his initials, "R.B. Young."

PCAD id: 5294

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Barker Brothers Furniture Company, Broadway Store, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1909-1910
Boos Brothers' Cafeteria, 648 South Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1916	Los Angeles	CA
Burbank Theatre, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1893	Los Angeles	CA
City of Los Angeles, City Hall #2, Young Project, Los Angeles, CA	1886
Fresno Unified School District, K Street High School, Fresno, CA	1889	Fresno	CA
Hollenbeck Building and Hotel, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1884	Los Angeles	CA
Hotel Rosslyn #1, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA		Los Angeles	CA
Hotel Westminster, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1887-1888	Los Angeles	CA
Johnson, O.T., Commercial Building #1, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1893-1894	Los Angeles	CA
Lankershim Building, 100 Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA		Los Angeles	CA
Lankershim Building, 3rd Street and Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1896-1897	Los Angeles	CA
Lankershim Building, 7th Street and Alameda Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1891	Los Angeles	CA
Lankershim Hotel #2, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1902-1905	Los Angeles	CA
Lankershim, James B., Hotel #1, Los Angeles, CA	1886-1887	Los Angeles	CA
Lankershim, James B., Speculative Houses, Los Angeles, CA	1886-1887	Los Angeles	CA
Occidental Hotel, Los Angeles, CA		Los Angeles	CA
Young Apartments, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1911	Los Angeles	CA

Publications

"Johnson, O.T., Commercial Building #1, notice", Builder and Contractor, 1, 1893-03-15. "City Hall Plans", Los Angeles Times, 4, 1886-03-24. "Rushing work on seven-story home of local furniture company", Los Angeles Times, V1, 1909-04-18. "Buildings are his monument", Los Angeles Times, II: 1, 1914-01-30.

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