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Lutah Maria Riggs Papers, 1882-1984 0000169 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt709nf413 No online items Finding Aid for the Lutah Maria Riggs papers, 1882-1984 0000169 Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino, Amber DelaCruz The finding aid for this collection was made possible by a Getty Foundation Archival Arrangement & Description Grant. Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum Arts Building Room 1434 University of California Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130 805-893-2724 [email protected] 2016 Finding Aid for the Lutah Maria 0000169 1 Riggs papers, 1882-1984 0000169 Title: Lutah Maria Riggs papers Identifier/Call Number: 0000169 Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum Language of Material: English Physical Description: 253.0 Linear feet(126 record storage boxes, 39 flat file drawers, 1 oversize drawing, 3 tubes, and 2 models) Date (bulk): Bulk, 1911-1982 Date (inclusive): 1882-1984 Location note: Box 1-25A/ ADC - regular Box 25B-29/ADC - regular Box 26-27/ADC - oversize** Box 30/ADC - oversize* Box 31-33/ADC - regular Box 34/ADC - oversize* Box 35-50/ADC - regular Box 51-52/ADC - oversize* Box 53-70/ADC - regular Box 71-72/ADC - oversize* Box 73-105/ADC - regular Box 106-110/ADC - oversize* Box 111-115/ADC - regular Box 116/ADC - oversize* Box 117-122/ADC - regular Box 123-124/ADC - oversize* add # 1/ADC - regular add #2/ADC - regular 7 tubes/ADC - oversize*** 39 Flat File Drawers/ADC - flat files 1 stainglass drawings/ADC - oversize***(behind last movable ff range) [Frame 1] 2 models/Mosher - models (unidentified) 1 model sold to home owner (deaccessioned) creator: Marx, Roberto Burle, 1909-1994 creator: Niemeyer, Oscar, 1907-2012 creator: Riggs, Lutah Maria, 1896-1984 -- Archives creator: Shaw, Arvin, III, 1916-1973 Access Open for use by qualified researchers. Custodial History note Gift of Lutah Maria Riggs, 1979. Preferred Citation note Lutah Maria Riggs papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara. Biographical/Historical note Lutah Maria Riggs was born on October 31, 1896 in Toledo, Ohio. She came to Santa Barbara in 1914 and attended Santa Barbara City Junior College until 1917 when she went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from Berkeley in 1919 with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture. Just out of school, Riggs found employment as a draftswomen and designer for Ralph D. Taylor in Susanville. One year later in 1921, Riggs began to work for architect George Washington Smith. She remained in his office until his unexpected death in 1930. Before his death, Smith apparently treated Riggs as a surrogate daughter, taking her on architectural study trips to Mexico and Europe. Riggs became an important member of the office--her renderings can be found in almost every project file. She contributed significantly to the Lobero Theatre, El Paso historical complex, and Casa del Herrero, among other projects. After Smith’s death Riggs established a short-lived partnership with William Horning. Horning and Riggs and dissolved in 1931. In 1931 Riggs became the principal of her own firm. In 1946 she formed a partnership with Arvin Shaw (who had worked for the New York firm, Harrison & Abramovitz), which lasted until 1950. Riggs continued her practice until 1981, when she closed her office due to declining health. The numerous residential and public buildings designed by Riggs include houses for Wright Luddington, Alice Erving, and for E. Palmer Black; the Vedanta Temple and the library and herbarium of the botanical Garden in Santa Barbara. While most of her work was in the Santa Barbara area, she received several commissions in Los Angeles and in smaller cities south of Los Angeles. In 1966 she was named women of year by the Los Angeles Times; she served on the state Board of Architectural Examiners and the Santa Barbara city and county Landmarks Advisory Committees. She was a charter member of the Montecito Foundation for the History Committee and active in the preservation of Santa Barbara’s historic architecture. Lutah Maria Riggs died in 1984 in Montecito, California at the age of 87. Scope and Content note The Lutah Maria Riggs papers span 253 linear feet and date from circa 1920 to circa 1984. The collection is composed of letters, diaries, student work and research, clippings, scrapbooks, ephemera, photographs, sketches, and architectural drawings. Related Archival Collections Finding Aid for the Lutah Maria 0000169 2 Riggs papers, 1882-1984 0000169 George Washington Smith papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara. David Gebhard papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara. Subjects and Indexing Terms Riggs, Lutah Maria, 1896-1984 Riggs, Lutah Maria, 1896-1984 Smith, George Washington, 1876-1930, American Architect Architects -- California Architectural drawings Architecture -- California -- 20th century Architecture -- California -- Santa Barbara -- 20th century Architecture -- United States -- 20th century -- Sources Correspondence Diaries Landscape architecture drawings Negatives Photographic prints Presentation drawings (proposals) Reprographic copies Sketches Women architects Personal papers Series I. 1882-1982 Physical Description: 24.58 Linear feet Scope and Contents note Personal papers relate to Riggs's childhood, school, travel, family and friends. Also included are notes and reference files on topics that interested her, papers relating to her friend Miriam Davis, collected materials about the dancer Isadora Duncan, and awards and certificates Riggs won as a student and young woman for various activities. Materials include manuscripts, photographs, letters, clippings and other printed ephemera. Biographical Information A. 1893-1981 Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet Box 1, Folder 1, Barrett Family History - Notes 1906-1980 FlatFile 656, Oversize-box 26, Folder 756 Box 1, Folder 2 California Highway Patrol 1975 Box 1, Folder 3 Calling Cards, Friends and Relations 1893-1896 Box 1, Folder 4 Casa Riggs Napkin N.D. Box 1, Folder 5, Family Records 1943 Oversize-box 26, Folder 757 Card-file-box 25 Baby Hand and Foot Print casting 1896 Box 1, Folder 6 "Her Book, Yours Truly Lutah Riggs," Manual Training High School Yearbook 1914 Box 1, Folder 7 History 1945-1977 Box 1, Folder 8 Newspaper Clippings 1918-1919 Box 1, Folder 9 Oral History Interviews 1980 Finding Aid for the Lutah Maria 0000169 3 Riggs papers, 1882-1984 0000169 Personal papers Series I.1882-1982 Biographical Information A.1893-1981 Box 1, Folder 10 Oral History Interviews 1981 Box 1, Oral History Interviews 1982 Folder 11-12 Box 1, Folder 13 Personal Notecards N.D. Box 1, Folder 14 Santa Barbara Register 1967 Diaries B. 1908-1981 Physical Description: 8.92 Linear feet Scope and Contents note Diaries, arranged by year, record the quotidian details of Riggs's days, from the weather, who she saw, and what she did. Clippings are inserted. Box 1, Folder 15 Diaries/Daybooks 1908 Box 1, Folder 16 Diaries/Daybooks 1918 Box 1, Diaries/Daybooks 1919 Folder 17-19 Box 1, Diaries/Daybooks 1920 Folder 20-22 Box 1, Diaries/Daybooks 1921 Folder 23-25 Box 1, Diaries/Daybooks 1922 Folder 26-28 Box 2, Diaries/Daybooks 1923 Folder 29-31 Box 2, Diaries/Daybooks 1924 Folder 32-34 Box 2, Diaries/Daybooks 1926 Folder 35-37 Box 2, Folder 38 Diaries/Daybooks 1930 Box 2, Folder 39 Diaries/Daybooks 1932 Box 2, Folder 40 Diaries/Daybooks 1934-1936 Box 2, Diaries/Daybooks 1939 Folder 41-42 Box 2, Diaries/Daybooks 1940 Folder 43-44 Box 2, Diaries/Daybooks 1941 Folder 45-46 Box 2, Diaries/Daybooks 1942 Folder 47-49 Box 2-3, Diaries/Daybooks 1943 Folder 50-53 Box 3, Diaries/Daybooks 1944 Folder 54-55 Box 3, Folder 56 Diaries/Daybooks 1945 Box 3, Diaries/Daybooks 1946 Folder 57-59 Box 3, Diaries/Daybooks 1947 Folder 60-62 Box 3, Diaries/Daybooks 1948 Folder 63-65 Box 3, Folder 66 Diaries/Daybooks 1950 Box 3, Folder 67 Diaries/Daybooks 1954 Box 3-4, Diaries/Daybooks 1956 Folder 68-73 Box 3-4, Diaries/Daybooks 1957 Folder 74-78 Finding Aid for the Lutah Maria 0000169 4 Riggs papers, 1882-1984 0000169 Personal papers Series I.1882-1982 Diaries B.1908-1981 Box 4, Diaries/Daybooks 1958 Folder 79-84 Box 4, Diaries/Daybooks 1959 Folder 85-92A Box 4, Diaries/Daybooks 1961 Folder 93-97 Box 5, Diaries/Daybooks 1962 Folder 98-103 Box 5, Diaries/Daybooks 1963 Folder 104-108 Box 5, Diaries/Daybooks 1964 Folder 109-114, Oversize-box 26, Folder 758 Box 5, Diaries/Daybooks 1965 Folder 115-119 Box 6, Diaries/Daybooks 1966 Folder 120-125 Box 6, Diaries/Daybooks 1967 Folder 126-130 Box 6, Diaries/Daybooks 1968 Folder 131-136 Box 6, Diaries/Daybooks 1969 Folder 137-141 Box 6, Folder 142 Diaries/Daybooks 1970s? Box 6-7, Diaries/Daybooks 1970 Folder 143-148 Box 7, Diaries/Daybooks 1971 Folder 149-156 Box 7, Diaries/Daybooks 1972 Folder 157-169 Box 7-8, Diaries/Daybooks 1973 Folder 170-182 Box 8, Diaries/Daybooks 1974 Folder 183-195 Box 8-9, Diaries/Daybooks 1975 Folder 196-204 Box 9, Diaries/Daybooks 1976 Folder 205-214 Box 9, Diaries/Daybooks 1977 Folder 215-219 Box 9, Diaries/Daybooks 1978 Folder 220-222 Box 9, Folder 223 Diaries/Daybooks 1979 Box 10, Diaries/Daybooks 1980 Folder 224-225 Box 10, Notes and Papers From Hospital Stay 1980-1981 Folder 226-229, Oversize-box 26, Folder 759 Box 10, Diaries/Daybooks 1981 Folder 230-235 Box 10, Diaries/Daybooks 1982 Folder 236 Box 10, Diaries/Daybooks 1983 Folder 237 Box 4, Diaries/ Daybooks 1960 Folder 92B-H Finding Aid for the Lutah Maria 0000169 5 Riggs papers, 1882-1984 0000169 Personal papers Series I.1882-1982 Correspondence C.1917-1982 Correspondence C.
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