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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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I feel compelled to note that that's the Huntsberger-Mennell Bldg. (1917), 410-418 W. 7th St. by William J Dodd, built for Lee Phillips:
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WJ Dodd (1862-1930) was born in Quebec and spent the first 32 years of his career in the Midwest (mostly Chicago and Louisville). Dodd's last 18 years were spent in Los Angeles. He managed to get a lot built here, much of it still standing.
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Beaudry has an exhaustive (and entertaining) blog post on Dodd's LA work
here.
Don't miss it.
Dodd's wiki page is
here.
Many
noirishers know Dodd's work from the Hearld-Examiner Building (1915, with then-partner JM Haenke and lead architect Julia Morgan), The Pacific Mutual Annex AKA The Sentry Building (1921) and the Architects Building (1928 with Wm Richards).
For himself, Dodd built his first (1915), second (1921) and final (1928-1930) Los Angeles homes withing spitting distance of each other in Los Feliz' private Laughlin Park. Deanna Durbin later owned the second one. He was engaged in building a home for his retirement in Playa del Rey when he died (1930).
Dodd was also a ceramic designer of note.
Vase #87 for Telco (1902):
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Another, 1901:
metropolitan museum of art
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