William and Alexander Curlett
{{short description|Irish-born American architect}}
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William F. Curlett (County Down, Ireland, March 3, 1846 – January 21, 1914, San Francisco){{cite web |title=William F. Curlett (Architect)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/153/ |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=8 November 2018}} and Alexander Edward Curlett (called Aleck) (San Francisco, February 6, 1881 – September 5, 1942){{cite web |title=Alexander Edward Curlett (Architect)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/1011/ |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=8 November 2018}} were a father-and-son pair of architects. They worked together as partners under the name of William Curlett and Son, Architects from {{circa|1908–1916}}.{{cite web |title=Curlett, William, and Son, Architects (Partnership) |url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/659/ |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=8 November 2018}} Aleck Curlett partnered with Claud Beelman as Curlett & Beelman (1919–1932).{{cite web |title=Curlett and Beelman, Architects (Partnership) |url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/6595 |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=8 November 2018}}
The San Francisco firm of Curlett, Eisen, & Cuthbertson, Architects, was active in the 1880s; it designed the Los Angeles County Courthouse in 1887. In 1888, the firm occupied Room #41 of the Downey Block. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1888, p. 768.){{Cite web |title=PCAD - Curlett, Eisen, and Cuthbertson, Architects |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/663/ |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=pcad.lib.washington.edu}}
Works
=National Register of Historic Places=
A number of works by either or both Curletts and by Curlett & Beelman are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.{{NRISref|version=2010a}} These works include:
==Alex Curlett==
- Board of Trade Building, 111 W. 7th St. Los Angeles, California
- Building at 816 South Grand Avenue, 816 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, California
- Equitable Building of Hollywood, 6253 W. Hollywood Blvd.{{Cite web |title=AMBER-20150127111802 |url=https://planning.lacity.org/StaffRpt/CHC/2-5-15/chc-2015-333.pdf}}
- Fifth Street Store Building, 501-515 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, California{{cite web|title=California SP Broadway Theater and Commercial District|publisher=United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858983|date=May 9, 1979}}
- Roosevelt Building, 727 W. Seventh St. Los Angeles, California
==William Curlett==
- Haas Californiandy Factory, 54 Mint St. San Francisco, California
- Packard Library, 301 4th St. Marysville, California
- Theodore F. Payne House, 1409 Sutter St. San Francisco, California
- Villa Montalvo, 14800 Montalvo Rd. Saratoga, California
- Mutual Savings Bank Building, 700 Market St., San Francisco, California{{citation|title=National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet: Mutual Savings Bank Building |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/13001107 |date=January 22, 2014 |publisher=National Park Service}}
- Phelan Building, 760 Market St. San Francisco, California
==Alex and William Curlett==
- Hotel Congress, 303–311 E. Congress St. Tucson, Arizona
- Rialto Building, 300–320 E. Congress St. Tucson, Arizona
- Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Tucson, Arizona
==Curlett & Beelman==
- Cooper Arms Apartments, 455 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach, California
- Chester Williams Building, 215 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, California
- Culver Hotel, 9400 Culver Blvd. Culver City, California
- Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building, 7415 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, California
- Security Building, 234 N. Central Phoenix, Arizona
=Other works=
Other of their works include:
- Proper Hotel, orig. Commercial Club of Southern Californialifornia, later Californiase Hotel, 1100 S. Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles (1926, as of 2020 under renovation to open as hotel){{Cite web |date=December 2019 |title=DTLA-Fact-Sheet_Dec2019 |url=https://www.properhotel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/06091537/DTLA-Fact-Sheet_Dec2019.pdf}}
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Berkeley, California){{Cite web|url = https://stmarksberkeley.org/service/campus-ministry/|title = Campus Outreach|access-date = 6 January 2021|website =St. Mark's Episcopal Church}}
- Foreman & Clark Building, 701 South Hill St., Los Angeles (Curlett & Beelman)
Block, Curlett & Eisen
Works attributed to Block, Curlett & Eisen:
- Potomac Block, west side of Broadway between 2nd and 3rd, Los Angeles, retail and offices, opened 1890.
Curlett, Eisen & Cuthbertson
- New Lanfranco Block, built 1888, 214–222 North Main St., Los Angeles{{Cite web |title=Lanfranco Block - Romanesque Revival Downtown - PocketSights |url=https://pocketsights.com/tours/place/Lanfranco-Block-7207 |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=pocketsights.com}}{{cite news |title=To Be Replaced |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59709408/lanfranco-block-to-be-replaced/ |publisher=Los Angeles Herald |date=January 15, 1888 |page=9}}
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Category:19th-century American architects
Category:Irish emigrants to the United States