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USTAS UTILITAS FIRMITAS vfel^ U ITTIPIT'S FIRWITA5^E"l^feT^5 post office box 92224, posodena, co 91109-2224 800.9SAHSCC ://www. cacr.caltech.edu/~mac/sah/index. htm U.S. Postage dialogues with design FIRST CLASS MAIL PAID red, page 2 Posodena, CA Permit No. 740 san fuan may and june eiSnts ms4-5 architectural exhi bookmarks Detail of cover of Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow by Merry Ovnick. DIALOGUES WITH DESIGN: ESTHER MCCOY LECTURE SERIES ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: BOB WINTER AND MERRY OVNICK The oracular and irreverent Robert W. Dialogues With Design was established for Winter, Professor of History Emeritus at SAH/SCC members and the public to hear about Occidental College, has dispensed knowledge and LA'S architectural history from those who made it. awakened all of us to the architectural gems (and The series, organized by SAH/SCC Board Member foibles) of California. The four editions (with Alison Cotter and SAH/SCC News editor Julie D. variations in title) of Los Angeles: An Architectural Taylor, continues throughout the year and is held Guide (Gibbs-Smith, 1994), co-authored with the end of ihc Rainho'u at the LA Central Library downtown, from 1:30PM late David Gebhard, have been, successfully, the to 3PM. The Sunday afternoon programs are free ultimate building-spotter's handbook. Among his and open to the public. SAH/SCC members can other publications are: A Guide to the reserve seats by filling out a form on Page 8, or by Architecture of San Francisco and Northern calling 800.9SAHSCC. May's program is the final Galifornia, also with Gebhard (1974, 1985), The in the spring series. Watch the newsletter for California Bungalow (Hennessey & Ingalls, 1980), upcoming Fall events. American Bungalow Style (Simon & Schuster, On May 17th, Bob Winter and Merry Ovnick 1996), and Toward a Simpler Way of Life will discuss and debate the stature of Los Angeles (University of California Press, 1997). in the canon of architectural history. They will He was one of the founders of the Southern focus on the struggles endured to establish the California Chapter of the Society of Architertural importance of the full range of LA's history—from Historians in the early 1970s, serving three years Missions to Googie. as president This year, he served as co-chair of the local committee hosting the 51 st Annual Meeting of the national Society of Architectural Historians in Los Angeles this past April. Merry Ovnick's book Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow, Before coming to Occidental in 1963, Dr. published by Balcony Press, was called "delightful and Winter held teaching assignments at Dartmouth informative" by the LA Times. and Bowdoin, then was assistant professor of a dual biography of tile maker Ernest Batchelder history at UCLA. He has chaired the Pasadena (who designed Winter's Pasadena home) and Alice Cultural Heritage Commission twice. For 12 years, Coleman Batchelder, and a history of Pasadena he belonged to the Cultural Heritage Board; five architecture. years as vice president, and two years as His desultory and long term-student, Merry WAY O president. In 1986, he published a monograph, Ovnick, is a lecturer in history at California State Myron Hunt at Occidental College. Dr. Winter is a University, Northridge. She authored Los Angeles: trustee of the Pasadena Historical Society and an The End of the Rainbow (Balcony Press, 1994). She advisory council member of the Conservancy and THE ARTS CRA is currently an active Board Member of SAH/SCC, the Cultural Heritage Foundation of Southern responsible for increasing the Chapter's ARCHITECTS OF CA,LIF0RN1A California. membership and organizing such tours as Spanish In 1993, he received the Donald Pflueger Romance & California Living this past March, and Award in local history from the Historical Society the upcoming Redlands Rendezvous, June 6th (see Southern California and President's Awards page 2), she also sen^^ed on the host committee for om the California Preservation Foundation and the April conference. ...ye Southern California Chapter of the American Robert Winter's book Toward a Simpler Way of Life was Call 800.9SAHSCC to resen/e your spot for Institute of Architects. His current projects include recently published by the University of California Press. Dialogues With Design. AS V yCNUSTAS VENUSTAS tNUSI AS. MTU H '.1 I VENUSTIk SAH/SCC HEWS is published bi-monthly by REDLANDS RENDEZVOUS the Sodety of Architectural Historians/ Southern California Chapter. Subscription SAH/SCC Bus TOUR: JUNE 6TH is 0 benefit of membership. ' Redlands beckons: Editor: Julie D. Taylor Saturday, June 6th. It's a Assistant Editors: Felicia Molnor; Linda Won warm and hospitable Executive Assistant: Grace Somudio p town chock full of well- p Information and ads for the newsletter should 5 maintained homes and be sent three weeks before the issue date. public structures—a Issue Deadline veritable text book of July/August 1998 June 12th •r Victorian, Mission September/October 1998 August 7th t Revival, and Craftsman Please send all ad materials, notices of events, 5 styles. Sign up now for exhibitions and news—plus photographs—to Redlands Rendezvous, the attention of the editor: : organized by SAH/SCC Board Member Merry Julie D. Taylor, Editor i Ovnick. It's $75 for SAH/SCC News SAH/SCC members; $90 P.O. Box 92224 for non-members. See Pasadena, CA 91109-2224 800.9SAHSCC (800.972.4722) Page 8 for order form. Newsletter telephone: 310.247.1099 We'll start the day with Newsletter fax: 310.247.8147 ^ juice and pastries before The A.K. Smiley Library fsans tower; is part of Redlands Rendezvous. Newsletter e-mail: [email protected] boarding our luxury tour „ , , jewel overall, and especially in its photogenic Jt'. '^^^.^l!^ c^ ll^^^ details. And even the missing tower will be there SAH/SCC Executive Board D day films set in Southern Califomia. The real fun in slides and, soon, in fact: a Smiley Library Tower President: John Beriey begins when we arrive in Redlands. Vice President: Nancy Smith & Building Fund has been established to Redlands was a citrus boom town of the 1880s. Recording Secretary: Jennifer Minasion reconstruct it to its original glory. Your ticket Newcomers hoping to make it rich in the citrus Membership Secretary: Merry Ovnick includes a donation (tax deductible) of $25 toward Devctepment Officer: Sian Winship business built Victorian houses, churches, and that project Preservation Officer: Grant Taylor businesses among the orange groves and on the We'll also hear Dr. Kenneth Breisch, author of Publicist: Alison Cotter downtown blocks. Some of them did get rich, and Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Treasurer: Rino Rubenstein their Victorian extravaganzas are something to Library in America (M.l.T. Press, 1997) on the late Volunteer Coordinator: Rebecca Kohn behold. (And we will!) By the 1890s, Redlands was 19th-century revolution in functionalist library Internet Editor: Bort^aro Lomprecht drawing wealthy Eastemers as a winter paradise. 818.794.5878; [email protected] design, of which this library is a great example. Member at Large: Rochelle Dynes Mills Substantial mansions sprang u(>—among them the We'll enjoy box lunches in Smiley Park and a kx)k French Chateau-style Kimberly Crest (1897; Member at Large: Ted Wells at the Lincoln Shrine (1932; Elmer Grey) with its Dennis & Farwell), which we'll tour. murals by Dean Cornwell (who also did murals in The romance of Southern California, illustrated http :/Avww. cacr. ca Itech. edu/~ mac/soh/i ndex. htm Los Angeles Central Library). After lunch. Dr. on local growers' orange crate labels, saw Burgess will guide us on a bus tour to the SAH/SCC Advisory Boord architectural expression in Redlands' Mission highlights of Redlands architecture, including the Board Chair Jeff Samudio, architectural historian Revival style, which Gebhard and Winter's Guide campus of the University of Redlands, founded in member to the State Historical Resources Commission; calls "among the most spectacular remaining in Ted Bosley, director of the Gamble House; Robert J. 1907 with Beaux Arts buildings by Norman Marsh Califomia." One of the grandest examples Chattel, construaion management consultant; (also known for his design of Venice, CA). Bring anywhere is the A.K. Smiley Public Library (1897; Ezequiel Gutierrez, attorney; Claire Rogger, retired T.R. Griffith). your cameras! City Council Deputy; Alan H. Rosenberg attorney; We'll conclude with a reception in an 1890 Dr. Larry E. Burgess, the library's director, will Richard C. Rowe, architectural historian and former home still set among its original citrus grove-a editor of SAH/SCC News. give us the library's design history—including the gracious step back into time. And then we'll return 1937 removal of its landmark tower. The library to LA, film-entertained along the way.
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