Allison & Allison

Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles.

Friday Morning Club Building, Downtown Los Angeles, (Julius Schulman, photographer).

First Baptist Church of Los Angeles.

Janss Investment Company Building−Janss Dome, Westwood Village.

Allison & Allison was the architectural firm of James Edward Allison (1870-1955) and his brother David Clark Allison (1881-1962).

Originally based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1910 the Allisons moved to Los Angeles in Southern California. At first they specialized in public schools.

Projects

The notable projects by this firm include:^[1]

• Riverview United Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, (1907).
• J George Becht Hall, Clarion University, Clarion, PA (1907).
• Friday Morning Club Building, Downtown Los Angeles, (present day Variety Arts Center), Downtown Los Angeles (1923).^[2]
• Wilshire United Methodist Church, with Moorish Revival 'La Giralda Tower' (1924). ^[3]
• First Baptist Church of Los Angeles, Westmoreland and 8th Street, Los Angeles (1925).
• Western Pacific Building, South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles (1925). ^[4]
• Thirteenth Church of Christ Scientist, (1926).
• First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, MacArthur Park district, Los Angeles, 1927
• The Janss Dome—Janss Investment Company Building, Westwood Village, (1929).^[5]
• Royce Hall, on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, 1929 - 1932
• Southern California Edison Building, Downtown Los Angeles, 1930, by staff designer Austin Whittlesey, with murals by Hugo Ballin and exterior bas-reliefs by Merrell Gage
• First Congregational Church, Commonwealth and 6th Street, Los Angeles, (1932).
• Kerckhoff Hall, UCLA campus (1930). ^[6]
• Beverly Hills Post Office, Beverly Hills, California, with Ralph Flewelling (1932-1933).
• Kaufman Hall, UCLA campus (1932). ^[7]
• Robinson's Department Store, Downtown Los Angeles flagship store, modernization of street facades with Edward Mayberry (1937). ^[8]
• Hollywood Post Office (Hollywood Station) in Hollywood, with Claud Beelman & WPA artists (1937). ^[9]

See also

• Allison & Allison buildings
• Architects from Los Angeles, California

References

1. You-are-here.com: Allison & Allison, selected projects . accessed 21 June 2015.
2. http://web.archive.org/web/20100125213310/http://cinematreasures.org:80/theater/31433/. Archived from the original on January 25, 2010. Retrieved August 4, 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. Wilshire United Methodist Church
4. Western Pacific Building, South Broadway, Los Angeles
5. "Building on the past: Westwoods history can still be seen in the architecture of the Villages newer businesses". Retrieved 2014-02-14.
6. Kerckhoff Hall, UCLA
7. Kaufman Hall, UCLA
8. Robinson's Department Store, Downtown Los Angeles
9. United States Post Office — Hollywood Station

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