PCAD - F. L. Spaulding

Photograph of the Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, c. 1910; from the Detroit Publishing Company, Image #071887

Postcard view of the Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, c. 1922; from the author's collection, postcard published for S.H. Kress and Company

Postcard view of the Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, c. 1925. From the author's collection, postcard by the Western Publishing and Novelty Company, Card #A79823

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Spaulding, F.L., Building Contractor

Professional History

Principal, F.L. Spaulding, Building Contractor, Long Beach, CA, c. 1906.

Personal

Spaulding worked as the Building Contractor of the Bixby Hotel, Long Beach, CA, when it collapsed on the morning of 11/09/1906.

PCAD id: 4682

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Bixby Hotel, Waterfront, Long Beach, CA	1906-1908	Long Beach	CA

Publications

"Bixby Hotel", Architect and Engineer of California, 70, 04/1906. Keough, T.E., "Failure of the Bixby Hotel", Architect and Engineer of California, 67-70, 12/1906. Schulze, Henry A., "Says Bixby hotel construction was not true concrete", Architect and Engineer of California, 71, 12/1906. McKaig, Thomas H., Building Failures Case Studies in Construction and Design, 29-30, 1962. "Supposed Corpses Go Up To Rescue", Los Angeles Times, I6, 11/11/1906. "Nobody Censured for Bixby Horror", Los Angeles Times, 1, 11/13/1906. "At the Courthouse Seek Damages from Builders", Los Angeles Times, 2, 11/07/1907. "Bixby Hotel", Los Angeles Times, 22, 11/04/1923. "With Thousand Tons of Concrete Twelve Men Go down to Death", Los Angeles Times, 1, 10/10/1906.