PCAD - Curlett, Eisen, and Cuthbertson, Architects

Exterior view of the Allegheny County Courthouse, H.H. Richardson, Architect, Pittsburgh, PA, 2016; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Dllu

Exterior view of the Los Angeles County Courthouse #3, Los Angeles, c. 1892; from Water and Power Associates

Exterior view of the Los Angeles County Hall of Records #1 (left), County Courthouse (center) and County Hall of Justice (right), Los Angeles, 1927; from the University of Southern California (USC), Libraries, California Historical Society Collection, Item #CHS-33190

Exterior view of the Los Angeles Court House #3 (left) and the County Hall of Records #1 (right), Los Angeles, c. 1926; from the University of Southern California (USC), Libraries, California Historical Society Collection, Item #CHS-11941

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William F. Curlett, Walter Jones Cuthbertson, Theodore Augustus Eisen, William Sterling Hebbard Sr.

Active c. 1884-1890

Firm Notes

The San Francisco firm of Curlett, Eisen, and Cuthbertson, Architects, was active in the 1880s; it designed the Los Angeles County Courthouse in 1887. In 1888, the firm occupied Room #41 of the Downey Block. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1888, p. 768.)

Walter Cuthbertson (1850-1925) left the firm in 1890 to work with the Swiss-born architect, William Mooser, Sr., (1834-1896).

PCAD id: 663

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Freeman College of Applied Sciences, Inglewood, CA		Inglewood	CA
Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, Courthouse #3, Los Angeles, CA	1887-1891	Los Angeles	CA

Publications

"Freeman College of Applied Sciences, Curlett, Eisen & Cuthbertson, Architects ", American Architect and Architecture, XXIV: 656, 1888. "Cuthbertson Obituary", Architect & Engineer, 108, 11/1925. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "Seeing Richardson in His Time: The Problem of the Romanesque Revival", H.H. Richardson The Architect, His Peers and Their Era, 127, 1999. "Los Angeles Courthouse #2 Description", Los Angeles Times, 8, 1887-05-13.

Curlett, Eisen, and Cuthbertson, Architects (Partnership)

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