PCAD - Dodd and Richards, Architects

Aerial view of the Associated Realty Building (center), Los Angeles, CA, c. 2019. From Google Maps/Street View

Aerial view of the Ville de Paris Department Store, Los Angeles, CA, c. 2017. From Google Maps/Street View

Exterior view of 513 West 7th Street Retail Building, Los Angeles, CA, 2012; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Downtowngal

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William James Dodd, Paul Eells Jeffers, William Richards

Active 1915-1930

Firm Notes

Dodd and Richards carried on a successful practice in Los Angeles, CA. The firm obtained new offices in 1919.

PCAD id: 656

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Associated Realty Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1920-1921	Los Angeles	CA
Brock and Company Jewelry Store, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1921-1922	Los Angeles	CA
City of Los Angeles, Public Library (LAPL), Branch #1, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA	1915-1916	Los Angeles	CA
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Washington High School, Los Angeles, CA	1925-1927	Los Angeles	CA
Los Angeles-1st National Trust and Savings Bank, Broad Avenue and Broadway Branch, Downtown, Glendale, CA	1927-1928	Glendale	CA
Pacific Finance Company, Building #1, Los Angeles, CA	1920-1921	Los Angeles	CA
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California, Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1907-1908	Los Angeles	CA
Pacific Southwest Bank Building, Los Angeles, CA	1925-1926	Los Angeles	CA
Rivers, Howard Leland, House, Oak Glen, CA	1918	Oak Glen	CA
Robinson's, J.W., Department Store #4, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1915	Los Angeles	CA
Uplifters Clubhouse #2, Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles, CA	1923	Los Angeles	CA
Ville de Paris Department Store #3, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1916-1917	Los Angeles	CA

Publications

"Dodd and Richards New Offices", Architect and Engineer, 114, 02/1919. "Brock and Company Jewelry Store, Los Angeles", Architectural Digest, 40-41, 79, 1923. "Pacific Finance Building #1, Los Angeles", Architectural Digest, 10, 1923. Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, "Richards, William", Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 508, 1956. "Architects Dodd & Richards prepare plans for Washington High School, Los Angeles", California Arts and Architecture, 9, 05/1929. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 230, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Pacific Mutual Building, 1912, 1922, 1926, 1937 and 1974", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 230, 1994. "Jewelry firm opens its new building at 515 W 7th St", Los Angeles Times, 7, 06/25/1922. "Jewelry house in consolidation", Los Angeles Times, 24, 10/15/1911. "Jewelry firm to close", Los Angeles Times, 20, 02/03/1974. "History of Brock and Company store", Los Angeles Times, 10, 07/28/1976. "Election Booms Local Building", Los Angeles Times, A1, 1924-11-15. "Dodd & Richards prepare plans for Mission Playhouse", Los Angeles Times, 3, 12/16/1928. "Pacific Finance Building Story", Los Angeles Times, 05/31/1964. "Pacific Finance Building Demolished", Los Angeles Times, 04/05/1971. Rasmussen, Cecilia, "Goofy Goings-On at Honcho Hangout", Los Angeles Times, B4, 6/30/2002. "New home of the beautiful", Los Angeles Times, 37, 07/09/1922. "Los Angeles 1st National Bank Branch, Broadway and Brand Avenue, Glendale", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 111, 1927-10. "Dodd & Richards prepare plans for the Brock Jewelry store building, Los Angeles", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 14, 08/11/1922. "Dodd, William J., Obituary", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 37, 06/1930.

Links

William J Dodd (1861-1930) American Architect and Designer