PCAD - Hunt, Eager and Burns, Architects

Exterior view of the Kerckhoff House, Los Angeles, 2017; from Google Maps/Street View

Exterior view of the Kerckhoff House, Los Angeles, c. 2010; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Los Angeles

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Silas Reese Burns Jr., Abraham Wesley Eager, Sumner P. Hunt

Active 1907-1910

Firm Notes

The architectural firm of Hunt, Eager and Burns succeeded Hunt and Eager, that operated from 1899 until 1907. Silas Reese Burns, Jr., (1855-1940) joined them in 12/1907.

PCAD id: 79

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Bent, Arthur S., House #2, Highland Park, Pasadena, CA	1909	Pasadena	CA
Hope Ranch Country Club, Hope Ranch, CA	1908	Hope Ranch	CA
Kerckhoff, William George and Louise Eshman, House, South Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA	1908-1909	Los Angeles	CA
Wilshire Boulevard and South Westmoreland Avenue House, Los Angeles, CA	1908	Los Angeles	CA

Publications

"Hunt, Sumner P., Obituary", Architect & Engineer, 11/1938. "Residence for W.G. Kerckhoff, Los Angeles", Architect and Engineer of California, 77, 07/1908. "Silas Reese Burns joins firm of Hunt & Eager", Architect and Engineer of California, 84, 12/1907. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Kerckhoff House, 1900", Architecture in Los Angeles A Compleat Guide, 256, 1985. Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 100-101, 1970. Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 311-312, 1970. Winter, Robert W., "The Arroyo Culture", California Design 1910, 12, 1980. "Hope Ranch Country Club notice", Los Angeles Times, part V: 24, 11/15/1908. "Among the Architects", Los Angeles Times, 20, 04/26/1908. "Burns, Silas Reese, Obituary", Los Angeles Times, 8/11/1940. "Hunt, Sumner P.", Who Was Who in America, 1897-1942, 1943. Who's Who in American Art, 1947, 4: 1947.