Silas Reese Burns

He was born on April 8, 1855, in Morgantown, Virginia.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/188/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database] He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1882. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1875.

Together with Myron Hunt (1868–1952), John B. Parkinson (1861–1935), and Sumner Hunt (1865–1938), he designed the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena, California in 1903–1904, which was destroyed by a fire in 1914.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/5231/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Hotel Maryland] Alongside George Wyman (1860–1939), he designed the Old Soldiers' Home in Sawtelle, Los Angeles.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/5025/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Old Soldiers' Home, Sawtelle, Los Angeles]

Together with Sumner Hunt and Abraham Wesley Eager (1864–1930), he designed the private residence of William G. Kerckhoff located at 1325 West Adams Boulevard, Exposition Park, Los Angeles in 1908 and 1909.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1154/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: William G. Kerckhoff House]'Residence for W. G. Kerckhoff, Los Angeles', Architect and Engineer of California, 77, 07/1908 It is now home to the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California.[http://www.westadamsheritage.org/read/462 West Adams Heritage Association] In 1908, they designed the Hope Ranch Country Club in Hope Ranch, California.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/3328/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Hope Ranch Country Club]'Hope Ranch Country Club notice', The Los Angeles Times, part V: 24, 11/15/1908 The same year, they designed a mansion at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Westmoreland Avenue, opposite the Bullocks Wilshire building.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/295/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Wilshire Boulevard and South Westmoreland Avenue House, Los Angeles, California]'Among the Architects', The Los Angeles Times, 20, 04/26/1908 A year later, in 1909, they designed a Tudor Revival mansion for Arthur S. Bent (1863–1939), a building contractor, in Pasadena, California.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/8676/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Arthur S. Bent, Pasadena, California]

Together with Sumner Hunt, he designed the Children's Hospital Los Angeles in 1910.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1369/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Children's Hospital of Los Angeles] In 1911, they designed the A. C. McKevett House in Santa Paula, California.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/5028/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: A. C. Kevett House, Santa Paula, California] The same year, they designed the E. S. Hall House in Ojai, California.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/5036/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: E. S. Hall House, Santa Paula, California]'Architects Hunt and Burns prepare plans or E. S. Hall residence in the Ojai Valley', Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2, col 1, 12/19/1911 In 1913, they designed the Vermont Square Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library located at 1201 West 48th Street, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/2555/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Vermont Square Branch, Los Angeles Public Library] From 1910 to 1914, they designed the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in Los Angeles.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1370/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California] In 1914, they designed the Henry C. House in Oak Knoll, Pasadena, California.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/10586/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Henry C. House] In 1919, they designed the Wilshire Country Club located at 301 North Rossmore Avenue in Los Angeles in 1919, but it was demolished and replaced in 1970.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/394/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Wilshire Country Club] They designed the Ebell Club of Pomona, California, in 1924.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1301/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Ebell Club of Pomona] They also designed the Ebell of Los Angeles located at 4400 Wilshire Boulevard in 1927, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1302/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Ebell Club of Los Angeles] They also designed the McKinley House in Lafayette Park, Los Angeles, which was torn down in 1999.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/5030/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: McKinley House, Lafayette Park, Los Angeles] On the campus of Scripps College in Claremont, California, they designed the Administration Building in 1928, and Balch Hall in 1929.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/2288/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Administration Building, Scripps College]'Colleges Plan New Buildings', The Los Angeles Times, A16, 9/7/1928[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/4876/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Balch Hall, Scripps College]'Auditorium, Balch Academic Hall, Scripps College, Claremont, Sumner Hunt and S. R. Burns, Architects', Architect and Engineer, 111: 1, 27–29, 10/1932

Together with Sumner Hunt, Roland Coate (1890–1958) and Aurele Vermeulen (1885–1983), he designed the headquarters of the Automobile Club of Southern California located at 2601 South Figueroa Street from 1921 to 1923.[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/5029/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Automobile Club of Southern California Headquarters]

His office was located in the Homer Laughlin Building at 317 South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles.

He married Laura Beall of Troy, Ohio, in 1881.[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/901210803:61378 Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774–1993, No. 815] Laura died in 1884.[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68996617/laura-j-burns Find a Grave, Laura J Beall Burns] He married Louise Devereux in 1891.Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book, Volume 10, 1899, p. 99 [https://books.google.com/books?id=u_8QAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Silas+Reese+Burns%22] They resided in Alhambra, California, and he retired in San Gabriel, California in 1930, where he was a member of the San Gabriel Valley Country Club. He died on August 10, 1940. He is buried in the San Gabriel Cemetery.[http://sangabrielcemetery.com/records/19761 San Gabriel Cemetery]

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