Robert Stacy-Judd

• Illustration — Aztec Hotel by Robert Stacy-Judd Stacy-Judd's most celebrated Mayan Revival designed building is the Aztec Hotel, focusing on the facades, interiors, and furniture. It was built in 1924 on the original U.S. Route 66, and is located in Monrovia, Southern California. Stacy-Judd explained the choice of the name of the hotel. When the hotel project was first announced, the word Maya was unknown to the layman. The subject of Maya culture was only of archaeological importance, a, at that, concerned but a few exponents. As a word Aztec was fairly well known, I baptized the hotel with that name, although all the decorative motifs are Maya

Works include (with attribution as appears in National Register listing): • Aztec Hotel, 311 W. Foothill Blvd. Monrovia, CA (Stacy-Judd,Robert B.), NRHP-listed • First Baptist Church of Ventura, 101 S. Laurel St. Ventura, CA (Stacy-Judd, Robert Benjamin), NRHP-listed • North Hollywood Masonic Temple, 5122 Tujunga Ave., North Hollywood, CA • Old Armory (Williston, North Dakota), 320 1st Ave., E. Williston, ND (Judd,Robert Stacy), NRHP-listed • Old Tioga High School-West Section, (Tioga, ND) • The Philosophical Research Society, 1934, Mayan Revival: 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles, CA • The "Indian Village" at Soboba Hot Springs, Riverside County, California • The "Atwater Bungalows" Two private residences at 1431 & 1433 Avon Park terrace in the neighborhood of Echo Park designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Los Angeles, • Illustration — First Baptist Church of Ventura • Illustration — North Hollywood Masonic Temple • Illustration — Old Armory in Williston, North Dakota • Illustration — Philosophical Research Society • Illustration — Soboba resort "Indian Village" Riverside County California

Stacy-Judd was a friend of the writer T. A. Willard, who published a fanciful account of his travels to Chichen Itza, was extremely influenced by John Lloyd Stephens writings, and perhaps even more so by the illustrations by Frederick Catherwood as presented in their book 'Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán'. a work that introduced many to the wondrous ruins of Central America. Possibly inspired by his friend T.A. Willard, Stacy-Judd published several popular books on Maya culture that blend fact and fiction.