PCAD - Curlett and Beelman, Architects

Exterior view of the Barker Brothers Office Building and Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1935. From the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), Works Progress Administration Photo Collection, Item #00064914, accessed 07/19/2023

Postcard view from the top of the Pacific Coast Club, Long Beach, c. 1935; from the author's collection, postcard by the Western Publishing and Novelty Company, Los Angeles, CA

Postcard view of the Barker Brothers Office Building and Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1926. From the author's collection, postcard by the Neuner Corporation, Los Angeles, CA

Postcard view of the Pacific Coast Club (orange building in center) and Villa Riviera (tower with green roof), Long Beach, c. 1940. From the author's collection, postcard by the Western Publishing and Novelty Company, Los Angeles, CA

Satellite view of the Barker Brothers Office Building and Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA, c. 2023. From Google Maps/Street View, accessed 07/19/2023

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Claud Wilbur Beelman, Alexander Edward Curlett

Active 1922 -1932

Firm Notes

This Beverly Hills-based architectural firm was dissolved in 1932. An obituary of Alexander Curlett (1881-1942) in the New York Timesof 09/07/1942 (p. 19), indicated that "The firm of Curlett & Beelman, dissolved in 1932, was responsible for much of this [Los Angeles] city's downtown skyline."

Records for the firm of Curlett and Beelman have been preserved in the Curlett & Beelman Records, circa 1924-circa 1932, Collection #0000124, at the University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

PCAD id: 65

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Army Navy Store Building, Los Angeles, CA	1925-1926
Barker Brothers Office Building and Warehouse, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1924-1925	Los Angeles	CA
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE), Lodge and Office Building, Los Angeles, CA	1923-1924	Los Angeles	CA
Commercial Club Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1925-1926	Los Angeles	CA
Cooper Arms Apartments, Long Beach, CA	1923	Long Beach	CA
Curlett, Alexander, and Helen Corbet, House, Bel Air, Los Angeles, CA		Los Angeles	CA
Equitable Building, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA	1929	Los Angeles	CA
Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles, Office Building, Long Beach, CA	1922-1923	Long Beach	CA
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Factory Administration Building, South Gate, CA	1927-1928	South Gate	CA
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Factory, South Gate, CA	1927-1928	South Gate	CA
Francisco Apartments, Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA	1922-1923	Los Angeles	CA
Garfield Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1928-1930	Los Angeles	CA
Garland, William M., Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1923-1924	Los Angeles
Heinsbergen Decorating Company Office, Los Angeles, CA	1927-1928	Los Angeles	CA
Hotel Mayfair, Los Angeles, CA	1926-1927	Los Angeles	CA
Pacific Coast Club, Alamitos Beach, Long Beach, CA	1925-1926	Long Beach	CA
Pacific Finance Building #2, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1927-1928	Los Angeles	CA
Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank, Office Building, Pasadena, CA
Pershing Square Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1923	Los Angeles	CA
Roosevelt Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1923	Los Angeles	CA
Security-1st National Bank, Branch, Pasadena, CA	1924	Pasadena	CA

Publications

Breeze, Carla, American Art Deco Architecture and Regionalism, 24-25, 226-227, 2003. "Pacific Finance Company Building plans, Los Angeles", Architect and Engineer, 56, 04/1927. "Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Curlett, Bel Air--Curlett & Beelman, Architects", Architectural Digest, 7: 1, 130-131, 1928. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 214, 1994. "British company renovates in LA", Los Angeles Times, pt. VIII: 2, 11/20/1983. "Aleck Curlett, 62, Coast Architect", New York Times, 19, 9/7/1942. "Barker Brothers Building, Los Angeles, Calif.", Pacific Coast Architect, 30: 1, 20, 58-59, 1926-07.

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COOPER ARMS APARTMENTS DispL.A. Case #52: L.A.’s First Firestone Tire Historic Broadway Building to Become Four-Star Boutique Hotel Long Beach Historic Landmarks Long Beach Historic Landmarks Opulence Gone to Seed: The Pacific Coast Club of Long Beach

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