Ernest McConnell
{{Short description|American architect}}
File:Exterior view of the Los Angeles Investment Building (later the C.C. Chapman Building), ca.1913-1918 (CHS-2321).jpg in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles]]
Ernest McConnell was an American architect, who worked in-house for the Los Angeles Investment Company.
Designs for homes
File:Modern Homes of California book cover.png
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.{{cite web |title=Charles C. Chapman Building – Charles J. Fisher |url=https://www.historian4hire.com/charles-c-chapman-building/ |website=Historian for Hire}}{{cite news |title=Many Fine Homes Near Completion |newspaper=Los Angeles Evening Express |date=June 28, 1913 |page=14}}
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.{{cite news |title=New Bungalow Book |newspaper=Los Angeles Evening Post-Record |date=June 14, 1913 |page=8}}{{cite web |title=Modern Homes of California|publisher=Los Angeles Investment Company (Trade Catalog Bungalow Homes)|url=https://www.abaa.org/book/1378513963 |website=Antique Booksellers Association of America |access-date=19 October 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Library Books: Monthly Bulletin of the Los Angeles Public Library |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzGViEGSoUQC&dq=%22Modern+Homes%22+%22Los+angeles+investment%22+co&pg=RA1-PA39 |website=Google Books |publisher=Los Angeles Public Library |access-date=19 October 2024 |language=en |date=1914}}
Other works
Ernest McConnell designed Chapman Building, which was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #899 and a contributing property to the Broadway Theater and Commercial District.{{cite web |title=Historic Places Los Angeles - Resource Report |url=https://historicplacesla.lacity.org/report/cec08a6b-5d55-4531-b784-d2224b445202 |website=historicplacesla.lacity.org |access-date=19 October 2024}}
External links
- [https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/03/25/if-the-small-investor-ever-had-a-monument-to-his-credit-the-los-angeles-investment-company-building-1912-part-one/ "If the Small Investor Ever Had a Monument to His Credit: The Los Angeles Investment Company Building, 1912" (Part One)] (blog article, [https://web.archive.org/web/20231207091951/https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/03/25/if-the-small-investor-ever-had-a-monument-to-his-credit-the-los-angeles-investment-company-building-1912-part-one/ Archived])
References
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Category:Architects from California
Category:Beaux Arts architects