Morgan and Walls, Architects (Partnership)

click to open gallery Advertisement for the Winslow Brothers company, Ornamental Iron and Bronze, with an interior photo of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, Los Angeles, 1908; from Winslow Brothers company, Ornamental Iron and Bronze Advertisement, Architect and Engineer, vol. XII, no. 2, March 1908, p. 31
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Charles Henry Kysor, Octavius Morgan, Harold Kenneth Vaughn, John A. Walls

Active 1890-1910

Firm Notes

An important and productive architectural firm straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, Morgan and Walls, Architects and Engineers, operated in Los Angeles, CA. It produced some of the most notable commercial buildings in Downtown Los Angeles during the 1890-1910 period, including the Nadeau House (1882), Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles (1905), Hellman Building (1910) and Van Nuys Building (1911).

This firm succeeded Kysor, Morgan and Walls (1887-1890) and was superceded by Morgan, Walls and Morgan in 04/1910. Octavius Weller Morgan, Sr., (1886-1951), who just graduated from Stanford University, replaced his father, Octavius Morgan (1850-1922), in the firm in 1910. to create Morgan, Walls and Morgan.

PCAD id: 80

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (A, T and T), Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, Office Building, Los Angeles, CA1911Los AngelesCA
Bicknell Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 1892Los AngelesCA
Bonfilio, N., House, Los Angeles, CA1898-1899Los AngelesCA
Brown, W.C., House, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Capitol Milling Company, Los Angeles, CA1883Los AngelesCA
Davies, J.M., Warehouse, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA1903Los AngelesCA
Duque, T.L., Garage, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 1910Los AngelesCA
Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles, Headquarters Building #3, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1905Los AngelesCA
Hellman Building, 411 South Main Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1910Los AngelesCA
Hollenbeck Home for the Aged, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA 1896Los AngelesCA
Hotel Van Nuys, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1896-1897Los AngelesCA
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), Hall, Azusa, CA1908AzusaCA
Kerckhoff Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1907-1908Los AngelesCA
Lawton, A.G., House, South Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA1901-1902Los AngelesCA
Nadeau House, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 1881-1882Los AngelesCA
Pantages Office Building #1, Pantages Theatre #1, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1909-1910Los AngelesCA
Story Building #1, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1900Los AngelesCA
Story Building #2, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1908-1909Los AngelesCA
Van Nuys, Isaac Newton, Building, Annex, Los Angeles, CA1929-1930Los AngelesCA
Van Nuys, Isaac Newton, Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1910-1911Los AngelesCA

Publications

"Octavius A. Morgan, Sr. obituary", American Institute of Architects Journal, 10: 169, 1922. "Ten-Story Office Building", Architect and Engineer of California, XII: 2, 77, 1908-03. "May Represent Southern California Chapter AIA at Congress of Architects in Vienna", Architect and Engineer of California, 77, 03/1908. "Bonfilio House plans", Builder and Contractor, 1, col 3, 06/01/1898. "Capitol Milling Company, Los Angeles, CA, additions 1898", Builder and Contractor, 2, col 1, 01/12/1898. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Guide to Architecture in Southern California, 77, 1965. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 231, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Van Nuys Hotel (now Barclay Hotel), 1896", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 238, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 235, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 235, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "I.N. Van Nuys Building, 1910-11", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 238, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Globe Theater, 1921", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 236, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 259, 1994. Los Angeles Conservancy News, 5, 05-06/1984. "Story to finance building, 1900", Los Angeles Daily Journal, 4, 10/13/1900. "Odd Fellows Hall, Azusa, Notice", Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2, col. 1, 02/26/1908. Edmonds, Andy, "Showstopper", Los Angeles Magazine, 128-136, 11/1989. Landsberg, Mitchell, "19th century mill gets new lease on life for the 21st", Los Angeles Times, B1, B8, 2/29/2000. "Object Lesson in Holocaust", Los Angeles Times, Section 2: 2, 4/26/1906. "Capitalist will build theater", Los Angeles Times, 1, 10/24/1909. "Master Builders of America Arrive Here", Los Angeles Times, 1, 10/14/1915. "New playhouse to rise shortly", Los Angeles Times, 1, 01/12/1909. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Kerkhoff [sic] Building (now Santa Fe Building), 1907 and 1911", Los Angeles, An Architectural Guide, 238, 1994. "Pantages vs Grauman", Rounder, 5, 10/07/1911.
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