Ernest McConnell
Illustration — The Chapman Building at the northeast corner of 8th and Broadway in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles Ernest McConnell was an American architect who worked in-house for the Los Angeles Investment Company.
Ernest McConnell
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Illustration — The Chapman Building at the northeast corner of 8th and Broadway in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles Ernest McConnell was an American architect who worked in-house for the Los Angeles Investment Company.
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• Illustration — Cover of Modern Homes of California (1913) 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. 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.
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Ernest McConnell designed the Chapman Building, which was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #899 and a contributing property to the Broadway Theater and Commercial District.
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- 1.Charles C. Chapman Building – Charles J. Fisher. Historian for Hire.
- 2.Many Fine Homes Near Completion. Los Angeles Evening Express. 14. June 28, 1913.
- 3.New Bungalow Book. Los Angeles Evening Post-Record. 8. June 14, 1913.
- 4.Los Angeles Investment Company (Trade Catalog Bungalow Homes). Modern Homes of California. Antique Booksellers Association of America.
- 5.Los Angeles Public Library. Library Books: Monthly Bulletin of the Los Angeles Public Library. Google Books. 1914.
- 6.Historic Places Los Angeles - Resource Report. historicplacesla.lacity.org.
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