Ernest McConnell
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Ernest McConnell was an American architect, who worked in-house for the Los Angeles Investment Company.
Chapman Building
[edit]He designed the Charles C. Chapman Building (originally the Los Angeles Investment Company Building) at 756 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, 13 stories, built 1912 at a cost of $1 million, Beaux Arts style.[1][2][3]
The Globe Savings Bank also moved its headquarters to the new building.[4]
It is now in residential use as the "Chapman Flats" above the retail at street level. Charles C. Chapman — the first mayor of Fullerton and the chief patron of Chapman University in the city of Orange — bought the building for $1.6 million in 1920.[5]
The building is designated as City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument no. 899 and a contributing property to the Broadway Theater and Commercial District.[6]
Designs for homes
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McConnell also designed numerous Craftsman homes featured in a plan book that the Los Angeles Investment Co. published. The LAIC constructed many homes from those plans in various housing developments they built throughout Southern California.[2][7]
McConnell oversaw the creation of all the designs in a 92-page catalog book that the Investment Co. released in 1912-3, titled Modern Homes of California. The book contained 77 architectural designs and photographs of mostly Arts and Crafts style bungalows across the Southland priced between $1500 and $5000, as well as 200 detailed illustrations of exterior and interior views, along with plans that provided accurate estimates for construction materials and labor costs.[8][9][10]
External links
[edit]- "If the Small Investor Ever Had a Monument to His Credit: The Los Angeles Investment Company Building, 1912" (Part One) (blog article, Archived)
References
[edit]- ^ "Los Angeles Investment Co. Building, Los Angeles, Cal". Loyola Marymount University Digital Collections. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
- ^ a b "Charles C. Chapman Building – Charles J. Fisher". Historian for Hire.
- ^ "Chapman Building Historical Marker". Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
- ^ "Equipment for bank quarters cost $180,728". Los Angeles Evening Express. April 12, 1913. p. 18.
- ^ Rasmussen, Cecilia (25 March 2007). "City's old names grace trendy new residences". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
- ^ "Historic Places Los Angeles - Resource Report". historicplacesla.lacity.org. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
- ^ "Many Fine Homes Near Completion". Los Angeles Evening Express. June 28, 1913. p. 14.
- ^ "New Bungalow Book". Los Angeles Evening Post-Record. June 14, 1913. p. 8.
- ^ "Modern Homes of California". Antique Booksellers Association of America. Los Angeles Investment Company (Trade Catalog Bungalow Homes). Retrieved 19 October 2024.
- ^ "Library Books: Monthly Bulletin of the Los Angeles Public Library". Google Books. Los Angeles Public Library. 1914. Retrieved 19 October 2024.