Parkinson and Parkinson, Architects (Partnership)

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Donald Berthold Parkinson, John Parkinson, Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta, H. Herbert Stegman

Active 1920-1945

Firm Notes

Parkinson and Parkinson was one of the most prestigious firms in Los Angeles, CA, during its existence; John Parkinson died in 1935; in 1940, Parkinson and Parkinson had its offices in the Title Insurance Building, Los Angeles.

In 1927, John and Donald Parkinson operated a branch office in San Diego, CA, in the Spreckels Theatre Building, Room #665. (See San Diego, California, City Directory, 1927, p. 853.)

PCAD id: 86

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
Banks-Huntley Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1929-1930Los AngelesCA
Broadway-Hollywood Store, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1940Hollywood, Los AngelesCA
Bullock's Westwood Department Store #1, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1932Los AngelesCA
Bullock's Wilshire Department Store, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA1928-1929Los AngelesCA
City of Los Angeles, Public Library (LAPL), Branch #2, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA 1940Los AngelesCA
City of Santa Monica, City Hall #2, Santa Monica, CA1938-1939Santa MonicaCA
Hayward Hotel, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1905Los AngelesCA
Holmby Hall, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1929Los AngelesCA
Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company, Headquarters Building, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA1921-1923Los AngelesCA
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, CA1934-1935Los AngelesCA
Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT), Los Angeles, CA1937-1939Los AngelesCA
Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT), Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA1939Los AngelesCA
Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA1921Santa MonicaCA
Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1929-1931Los AngelesCA
Saks Fifth Avenue Store Building, Beverly Hills, CA1936-1937Beverly HillsCA
Southern California Gas Company, Headquarters Building #1, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1924Los AngelesCA
Title Guaranty and Trust Company, Main Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1929-1931Los AngelesCA
United States Government, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Branch #1, Los Angeles, CA1929-1930Los AngelesCA
University of Southern California (USC), Bovard, George Finley, Administration Building, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA1920-1921Los AngelesCA
University of Southern California (USC), Bridge Hall, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA1928Los AngelesCA
University of Southern California (USC), Law School Building #2, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA1926Los AngelesCA
University of Southern California (USC), Physical Education Building, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA1928Los AngelesCA
University of Southern California (USC), Science Building, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA1928Los AngelesCA
Wilshire Medical Building, Central Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA1927-1928Los AngelesCA

Publications

Breeze, Carla, American Art Deco Architecture and Regionalism, 230-231, 2003. Architect and Engineer, 12/1929. "Bullock's Westwood", Architectural Digest, 8: 4, 47, 1932-1933. "Parkinson House, Santa Monica, CA", Architectural Digest, 32, 1924. Howard, John Galen, "The College Administration Building", Architectural Forum, XLIV: 6, 408, 06/1926. "Bullock's Wilshire Department Store, Los Angeles", Architectural Record, 67: 1, 51-64, 1930-01. Davis, Margaret Leslie, Bullock's Wilshire, 1996. Rifkind, Carole, Field Guide to American Architecture, 229, 1980. Architectural Record, Forty Years of American Architecture, 5, 1979. Webb, Michael, "Southwestern University Law Library, Los Angeles", Interiors, 156: 6, 50-55, Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Pacific Mutual Building, 1912, 1922, 1926, 1937 and 1974", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 230, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Exposition Park", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 271, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 231, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 275, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 275, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 275, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 275, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 106, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 233, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 274-275, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Pacific Stock Exchange", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 238, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 238, 1994. "Drive Extended an Additional Day", Los Angeles Times, A13, 07/01/1924. Kronzek, Lynn, Los Angeles, place of possibilities: the People and Resources that Created Los Angeles, 455, 1998. Parkinson Centennial, 1884-1994, 7, 1994. Jencks, Charles, Post-Modernism The New Classicism in Art and Architecture, 136-137, 1987. Delahanty, Randolph, Preserving the West, 19, 1985. DeBoer S.R., Shopping Districts, 47, 1937. "Building Prospects for 1929", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 40-41, 01/04/1929. Lewis, N. Richard, "From cathedral of commerce to university law library", Urban Land, 55: 10, 27-28, 10/1996. Tyrnauer, Matt, "L.A. Century", Vanity Fair, 541: 284-286, 09/2005.
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