Drawings from Welton Becket's early architectural practice form Series I of the
archive. From 1930 to 1932, both independently and in partnership with his former
classmate Walter Wurdeman, Becket designed several commercial and residential projects
in Seattle and the surrounding area. Becket worked in a variety of styles. For a garage
meant to serve the Art Deco Edmond Meany Hotel, Becket designed in that style, while his
residential work ranged from Tudor revival to traditional Cape Cod homes. The varying
identifications on the signature blocks on the drawings for this period show Becket's
evolving relationship with Wurdeman, from working as associates to what appears to be a
firm, Becket and Wurdeman. When Becket worked independently, the drawings were signed
Welton D. Becket, Architect.
Arrangement
The series is arranged in rough chronological order guided by job numbers and project
dates.
flatfile
1**
Norwegian Hospital (Job 108, Seattle, Welton D.
Becket, Architect; Walter C. Wurdeman, Assc'd), 1930
flatfile
2**
Harley House and Boat House (Job 109, Seattle,
Welton D. Becket, Architect; Walter C. Wurdeman, Engineer), 1930
flatfile
3**
University Hotel Garage [Garage for Edmond Meany
Hotel] (Job 110, Seattle), 1931
flatfile
4**
Washington Investment Corporation Apartment
Building (Job 111, Seattle), 1931
flatfile
5**
Urban Land Improvement Company Market Building
(Job 112, Seattle, Becket & Wurdeman, Architect & Engineer), 1931
5**
West Side Drive-in Market (Job 113,
Seattle), 1931
flatfile
6**
Nelson Apartments (Job 114, Seattle), 1931
flatfile
7**
Garage and Store Building for the "Z" System of
Construction (Job 121, Seattle), 1931
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8**
First Realty Corporation Store Building,
alterations (Job 124, Everett, WA), 1931
The work of the firm Plummer, Wurdeman and Becket forms Series II. Drawings for over
175 projects dating from 1933 to 1937 form the bulk of the series. A small number of
those projects also have photographic documentation.
Arrangement
The series is arranged in rough chronological order guided by job numbers and project
dates, with undated and unidentified materials at the end.
flatfile
13**
Cannon House (Job 593, Los Angeles [North
Hollywood]), 1933
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14**
Wreden Packing and Provision Company Warehouse,
alteration (Job 594, Los Angeles [Florence-Graham]), 1933
flatfile
15**
Robbin Palace, alteration (Job 595, Los Angeles
[Venice]), 1933
flatfile
16**
Miller (J.B.) House (Job 598, Los Angeles
[Carthay]), 1933
box
folder
19*
1
Lehman Duplex Apartment (Los Angeles [Beverly
Grove]), 1933
19*
2
Goodwin Apartment Building (Beverly
Hills), 1933
19*
3
Leighton's Restaurant, City Hall (Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1933
flatfile
52**
Clifton's Barbershop (Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1933
flatfile
56**
Walter P. Story Building, alterations (Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1933
flatfile
143**
645 South Spring Street, entrance alteration (Los
Angeles [Downtown]), 1933
flatfile
238**
Meneisse House, 1933
flatfile
17**-18**
Murphy House and Ranch (Job 599, Los Angeles
[Rustic Canyon]), 1933-1934
flatfile
35**
Club Casa Del Mar, alterations to Grille Room and
bar (Job 603, Santa Monica), 1934
Also includes 1933 orchestra stand.
flatfile
19**
Riviera, alteration, for Halper-Robbin (Job 605,
Los Angeles [Venice]), 1934
flatfile
20**
Palace Ballroom, alterations, for Halper-Robbin
(Job 606, 607, 609, 610, Los Angeles [Venice]), 1934
flatfile
21**
Basso Warehouse (Job 608, Los Angeles [Lincoln
Heights]), 1934
flatfile
22**
Weil's, storefront alterations, for Eulalie Grass
Trust (Job 613, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1934
Fricke House (Job 614, Los Angeles [Studio
City]), 1934, 1997
flatfile
23**
Drawings, 1934
box
folder
1
1
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
Krause House (Job 616, West Hollywood), 1934, 1997
flatfile
24**
Drawings, 1934
box
folder
1
2
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
Sosin House and Duplex (Job 618, 620, Los Angeles
[Los Feliz]) 1934, 1997
flatfile
25**
Drawings, 1934
box
folder
1
3
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
flatfile
26**
Young's Speedy Shoes, store alterations, for Eulalie
Grass Trust (Job 621, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1934
flatfile
27**
Sharpe Apartment Building (Los Angeles
[Pico-Robertson]), 1934
Wonder Super Market, for Hansen Moore (Job 623,
Los Angeles [Jefferson Park]), 1935
flatfile
32**
Simpson House (Job 624, Pasadena), 1935
flatfile
151**-152**
Pan Pacific Auditorium (Job 625, Los Angeles
[Fairfax]), 1935
Primarily reduced-scale photocopies.
flatfile
33**
Starr Piano Company, alterations (Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1935
flatfile
34**
Palace Ballroom, alterations, for Halper-Robbin
(Job 628, Los Angeles [Venice]), 1935
flatfile
53**
Clifton's Cafeteria, 618 South Olive Street,
alterations (Job 629, Los Angeles, [Downtown]), 1935
flatfile
44**
Kenest House (Job 631, Los Angeles), 1935
flatfile
29**
Pan Pacific "Emergency Hospital" (Job 632, Los
Angeles [Fairfax]) 1935
flatfile
36**-36A**
Club Casa Del Mar, alterations to first floor/movable
platform (Job 633 and 634, Santa Monica), 1935-1936
Also various 1935-1937 alterations and additions, including cocktail lounge, kitchen
alteration and lobby.
flatfile
37**
Building for amusement purposes (Job 635, San
Mateo), 1935
flatfile
38**
Palace Ballroom, alterations (Job 636, Los Angeles
[Venice]), 1935
Also includes Robbins store wall treatment.
flatfile
39**
Overell's, storefront alteration (Job 637, Los
Angeles [Downtown]), 1935
flatfile
40**-41**
Pacific Electric Company Amusement Building (Job
638, Redondo Beach), 1935-1936
flatfile
42**
Goldman House (Job 639, Los Angeles
[Westwood]), 1935
flatfile
43**
Roberts Brothers Cocktail Lounge (Job 640, Los
Angeles [Koreatown]), 1935-1936
flatfile
45**
Dakis Amusement Building (Job 642,
Hawthorne), 1935
Hillcrest Country Club, cocktail lounge (Job 643,
Los Angeles [Cheviot Hills]), 1935
flatfile
46**
Drawings
box
32, 34
Stereo slides
Views of interior and exterior; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M.
Simmonds, architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the
glass.
box
folder
35
1
35mm slide of rendering
Boos Brothers Cafeteria, 438-440 South Hill Street,
alterations (Job 644, Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1935
Also includes cocktail lounge extension, Omar's Dome and offices.
flatfile
47**
Standard drawings
box
202**
Oversize drawings
Includes signage and terrazo sidewalk.
box
folder
19*
4
Bradley House, 1935
flatfile
48**
Boos Brothers Cafeteria, 442 South Hill Street,
mezzanine (Job 645, Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1935
flatfile
49**
Boos Brothers Catering Company, 530 South Hill Street,
alterations (Job 646, Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1935
flatfile
50**-51**
Clifton's Cafeteria, Brookdale, 648 South Broadway,
alterations (Job 647, Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1935
Also Pruitt & Brown, Job no. 150.
flatfile
54**
Boos Brothers Cafeteria, 328 South Broadway,
alterations (Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1935
Also Pruitt & Brown, Job no. 151.
flatfile
55**
Boos Brothers Cafeteria, 319 West 5th Street,
alteration (Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1935
Also Pruitt & Brown, Job no. 152.
Crematorium (Job 649, Salinas) 1935, 1998
flatfile
57**
Drawings, 1935
box
folder
1
4
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
flatfile
58**
House for [client erased] (Job 650), 1935
Kay Jewelry, alteration (Job 652, Long
Beach), 1935
flatfile
59**
Standard drawings
box
203**
Oversize print
Cline House (Job 654, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1935-1936, 1998
flatfile
60**
Drawings, 1935-1936
box
folder
1
5
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
flatfile
61**
Challenge Cream and Butter Association Building, stair
alteration (Job 655, Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1935
Gilbert House (Job 754, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1937, 1998
Drawings, 1937
flatfile
115**
Plot and landscaping plans
flatfile
117**
Preliminary drawings and renderings
flatfile
116**
Working drawings
box
201**
Oversize prints of plot and grading plans
box
folder
1
16
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
flatfile
118**
Fox House, alteration (Job 758, Beverly
Hills), 1937
flatfile
119**
Club Casa Del Mar, apartment for Harter (Job 760,
Santa Monica), 1937
Watson & Son Tailor Shop (Job 761, Beverly
Hills), 1937
Includes schematic plan on linen with attribution to Wurdeman and Becket.
box
folder
1
17
Structural calculations
flatfile
120**-120A**
Drawings
box
9
Photograph album
By Fred R. Dapprich.
flatfile
118**
Fox House, relocation (Job 762), 1937
Rathbone House (Job 766, Los Angeles [Hollywood
Hills]), 1937, 1998
Plans for development of property off Mulholland, with two houses. Also Job 755 in
1938 for Wurdeman and Becket.
flatfile
153**-155**
Drawings, 1937-1940
box
folder
1
18
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
flatfile
121**
Roberts Drive-In Lunch, remodel (Job 767, Los
Angeles [Koreatown]), 1937
flatfile
119**
Club Casa Del Mar, shower room alterations (Job
768, Santa Monica), 1937
flatfile
122**
Botwin's Cafe, cocktail room addition (Job 770,
Los Angeles [Echo Park]), 1937
flatfile
123**
Club Casa Del Mar, Colonial alteration to mezzanine
cocktail room (Job 772, Santa Monica), 1937
flatfile
125**
Matthews House (Job 773, Los Angeles [Los
Feliz]), 1937
flatfile
124**
Boos Oasis, 438 South Hill Street, alterations
(Job 774, Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1937
Burns Study/Cabin (Job 775, Los Angeles
[Bel-Air]), 1937, 1997
flatfile
126**
Drawing, 1937
box
folder
1
19
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
flatfile
112**
Club Casa Del Mar, mezzanine in gymnasium (Job
791, Santa Monica), 1937
flatfile
134**
House, 1937
flatfile
137**
Morris House, 1937
flatfile
143**
Restaurant and cocktail lounge, 1937
flatfile
144**
Clifton's Cafeteria, Brookdale, 648 South Broadway,
alterations (Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1937
box
folder
20*
1
Childs Apartment Building, 1937
20*
2
Borun House (Los Angeles [Holmby
Hills]), 1937
flatfile
147**-148**
Sunset / Doheny Apartment Building (West
Hollywood), 1937
Becket (Welton D.) House, Bundy Drive (Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1937, 1998
Block identifies as the work of Becket alone, Welton D. Becket, Architect; includes
cocktail party invitation and a drawing for a later house for Hugh Becket.
flatfile
132A**
Drawings, 1937
box
27
Photograph album, circa 1937
By Fred R. Dapprich.
box
folder
1
20
List of drawings and photographs compiled by Welton McDonald
Becket, 1998
flatfile
143**
Drive-in kitchen, undated
flatfile
139**
Boos (Mrs. O.J.) Apartment Building (Beverly
Hills), undated
Includes drawings for both duplex and 4-unit option.
flatfile
119**
Freeman (Art) House, undated
119**
Rood House, alteration (Midway City), undated
flatfile
138**
Apartment building on Wilshire Boulevard (Los
Angeles), undated
Includes blueprint of a 1932 apartment building by Charles Richard Selkirk.
flatfile
140**
Boos 3-unit Apartment Building, undated
flatfile
141**
Halper Cabin (Canada), undated
flatfile
143**
Krause Cafe and Drive-in Stand, undated
box
folder
19*
9
Baird House, undated
box
folder
20*
3
House (Los Angeles [Holmby Hills]), undated
flatfile
145**
Various apartment buildings, undated
flatfile
155A**
Drawings from unidentified Plummer, Wurdeman and Becket
projects, undated
Series III is comprised of drawings and photographs recording 150 projects designed by
the firm of Wurdeman and Becket, or as the signature block on their drawings reads,
Walter Wurdeman/Welton Becket, Architects.
Arrangement
The series is arranged in rough chronological order guided by job numbers and project
dates, with undated and unidentified materials at the end.
Jones Dog and Cat Hospital (Job 771, West
Hollywood), 1938
flatfile
156**-157**
Drawings
box
10
Photograph album
Photographs by George D. Haight.
California Carpet Company (Job 777, Los Angeles
[Fairfax]), 1938, 1998
flatfile
158**
Drawings, 1938
box
folder
2
1
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
box
folder
16
1
Photographs
Photographs found loose; may belong with enclosed detached album pages.
flatfile
159**
Houses, Sunset Park Tract (Job 779, 780, 781, 782,
Santa Monica), 1938
flatfile
160**
Hill House (Job 791, Manhattan Beach), 1938
flatfile
161**-162**
Cagney House (Job 792, Beverly Hills), 1938
Also includes drawings for Job 792A, alterations to a barn.
flatfile
163**
Club Casa Del Mar, alterations to the men's and ladies'
check rooms (Job 795, Santa Monica), 1938
flatfile
164**-165**
Hardwick House (Job 799, Burbank), 1938
Levine House (Job 801, Los Angeles [Hancock
Park]), 1938, 1997
flatfile
166**-167**
Drawings, 1938
box
folder
2
2
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
Market building, for Halper Construction (Job 802,
Santa Monica), 1938, 1998
flatfile
168**
Drawings, 1938
box
folder
2
3
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
box
folder
16
3
Halper Construction Corporation Office
Building, circa 1938
Photographs of exterior.
flatfile
219**-220**
Pan Pacific Skating Rink (Los Angeles
[Fairfax]), 1938
Drawings by Ford J. Twaits Company, Construction Engineers.
flatfile
237**
Sunset Apartments (West Hollywood), 1938
box
11
Briggs House, 1938
"Photobrochure" by Maynard L. Parker.
flatfile
169**
Manasse House (Job 803, West
Hollywood), 1938-1939
flatfile
239**
Wurdeman and Becket Office Building (Los Angeles
[Mid-Wilshire]), 1938-1939
flatfile
170**
Poussette House (Job 806, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1939
flatfile
195**
Henderson House, alterations (Job 808, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1938
Houses, Melbourne Square Tract (Jobs 811-820, Los
Angeles [North Hollywood]), 1939, 1997
Also includes plans for Jobs 686 and 694.
flatfile
171**
Drawings, 1939
box
folder
2
4
Documentation, 1939
Includes tract map and declaration of restrictions.
2
4
List of drawings for Job 815 compiled by Welton McDonald
Becket, 1997
Alterations to 4-unit apartment building for Woods and
Hope (Job 821, Los Angeles [Mid-City]), 1939, 1998
flatfile
172**
Drawings, 1939
box
folder
2
5
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
Romero House (Job 825, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1939
flatfile
173**-175**
Drawings
box
12
Photograph album
By Fred R. Dapprich.
flatfile
176**
Clifton's Cafeteria, 618 South Olive Street,
alterations (Job 826, Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1939
Includes drawing for 1940 alteration.
Jai Alai Auditorium (Job 827, Manila,
Philippines) 1939-1940
Drawings
Numbered sets of working drawings
flatfile
177**
Architectural
flatfile
178**
Structural
flatfile
179**
Electrical, plumbing, air conditioning, toilet partitions
Full-size details
flatfile
180**
Standard drawings
box
217**
Oversize drawings
Other drawings and details by function / location
flatfile
181**
Foundation, roof, beams and girders
flatfile
182**
Ballroom, bars, kitchen
flatfile
183**
Grandstand, galleria, changing and locker rooms, playcourt, barber shop
and various
flatfile
184**
Elements
Including stairs, windows, doors, elevators, pneumatic tube system, railings,
flooring, facings, and facade elements.
flatfile
185**
Signage, scoreboard, fountain
flatfile
186**
Power plant
flatfile
187**
Lighting fixtures
flatfile
188**
Furniture
Miscellaneous
flatfile
189**
Standard drawings
box
219**
Oversize drawing
box
13
Photograph album
box
folder
29
4-5
Colorized photographs
box
folder
21*
4
Notes and logo
flatfile
190**
McAfee House, 1939
Small Home Service of Southern
California, circa 1939
Compilation of designs for small houses designed by the firms of Plummer, Wurdeman
and Becket and Wurdeman and Becket; mostly Sunset Park Tract.
box
folder
2
6
Documentation
flatfile
238**
Drawings
flatfile
196**
Powell House, alterations (Los Angeles
[Hollywood]), 1939
flatfile
240**
Pan Pacific Auditorium, alterations and addition
(Los Angeles [Fairfax]), 1939
Includes plans for restaurant and sketches for a larger complex.
Hotels / casinos (Las Vegas, NV), 1939-1944
Drawings for a series of projects in Las Vegas, mostly for Guy McAfee. Project names
on the drawings include 91 Club, 91 Hotel, Hollywood Hotel, and Monte Carlo; also a
print of a rendering for the Golden Nugget.
flatfile
302**-306**
Standard drawings
Oversize drawings
box
204**-205**
Originals
box
206**-207**
Prints
flatfile
191**
McKay's Jeweler's Shop (Job 828, Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1940
Manila Hotel (Job 829, Manila,
Philippines), 1940
Includes drawings for Army and Navy Club Bar.
flatfile
192**
Drawings
box
14
Photograph album
Transportation Club for Marsman Building (Manila,
Philippines), 1940
flatfile
193**
Drawings
box
14
Photograph album
Wurdeman (Walter C.) House, Moraga Drive (Job
830?, Los Angeles [Bel-Air]), 1939
flatfile
330**-331**
Drawings
box
folder
29
7
Colorized photograph
flatfile
194**
French Apartment Buildings (Job 830, Santa
Monica), 1940
Rathbone House, alterations (Job 831, Los Angeles
[Bel-Air]), 1939-1940, 1998
flatfile
235**-236**
Drawings, 1939-1940
box
folder
2
7
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
Laughlin House (Job 832, Los Angeles
[Bel-Air]), 1940, 1997
box
folder
2
9
Notes, 1940
flatfile
197**
Drawings, 1940
box
folder
2
8
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
box
folder
16
4
Photograph of exterior
North Redondo Community Center (Job 833, Redondo
Beach), 1940, 1997
flatfile
198**
Drawings, 1940
box
folder
2
10
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
flatfile
200**
Hanna House (Job 835, Indianapolis,
IN), 1940
flatfile
201**
Douglas Oil Office Building (Job 836, Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1940
Pace House (Job 837, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1940, 1995
flatfile
202**
Drawings, 1940
box
folder
2
11
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1995
flatfile
203**
Rawlings House (Job 838, Santa
Monica), 1940
box
folder
21*
5
Raderman House, 1940
21*
5
Eisenberg House, 1940
flatfile
256**
Russell House (Los Angeles [Hollywood
Hills]), circa 1940
Helms House (Job 840, Los Angeles
[Bel-Air]), 1941, 1998
flatfile
204**
Drawings, 1941
box
folder
2
12
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
Sale House (Job 841, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1941
flatfile
205**
Standard drawings
box
208**
Oversize topographic map
box
folder
2
13
Notes
box
folder
16
6
Photographs
flatfile
206**
Bell House (Job 842, Los Angeles
[Bel-Air]), 1941
Muhlback House (Job 844, Los Angeles
[Westwood]), 1941, 1998
flatfile
207**
Drawings, 1941
box
folder
2
14
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
Henderson House (Job 845, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1941
flatfile
208**
Drawings
box
folder
16
5
Black-and-white photographs
box
folder
29
3
Colorized photographs
flatfile
209**-211A**
Goetz House (Job 846, Los Angeles [Pacific
Palisades]), 1941
flatfile
212**
Spalding House (Job 847, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1941
Pan Pacific Theatre (Job 848, Los Angeles
[Fairfax]), 1941
With William L. Pereira.
box
folder
2
15
Documentation
Includes correspondence relating to acoustical analysis.
Drawings
flatfile
213**-214**
Original drawings
flatfile
215**-216**
Prints
flatfile
217**
Lighting
box
folder
16
2
Photographs by Julius Shulman
box
folder
29
2
Colorized photograph
Pan Pacific Bowling (Job 849, Los Angeles
[Fairfax]), 1941
With William L. Pereira.
flatfile
218**
Standard drawings
box
folder
2
16
Small sketches of exterior elevation
Salvatori House (Job 850, Los Angeles
[Bel-Air]), 1941
Also includes undated sheet of alteration drawings by Welton Becket and
Associates.
flatfile
221**-223**
Standard drawings
box
218**
Oversize drawing
box
folder
30
1
Colorized photographs
flatfile
254**
Bar and cocktail lounge for McAfee (Job 851, Las
Vegas, NV), 1941
box
folder
21*
2
Sawyer House, alteration , 1941
21*
1
Harter House, 1941
flatfile
243**
Housing tract (Los Angeles [Van
Nuys]), 1941
Wurdeman and Becket House (speculative?)(Job 856,
Los Angeles [Brentwood]), 1941-1942, 1997
flatfile
224**-225**
Drawings, 1941-1942
box
folder
2
18
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
flatfile
226**
Wurdeman (Arthur) House (Job 857, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1941-1942
Marfay Development Company tract housing (Jobs
858, 859, 860, Santa Monica and El Segundo) 1941-1942, 1995, 2009
Tract maps and individual house plans for Tract 12856 on Ozone Avenue in Santa Monica
and Tract 12391 on Sierra Avenue in El Segundo. The job numbers refer to specific
house models combined into the tracts, along with job/model 812. Also includes a
Federal Housing Administration "Description of Materials" form for the Santa Monica
tract.
flatfile
227**-230**
Drawings, 1941-1942
box
folder
2
36
Plot plans, 1941-1942
2
17
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1995, 2009
House for Marfay Development Company (Job 861, Los
Angeles [Brentwood]), 1941-1942, 1995
flatfile
231**
Drawings, 1941-1942
box
folder
2
17
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1995
flatfile
232**
Gagnon House (Job 863, Los Angeles
[Brentwood]), 1942
flatfile
233**-234**
Store building, alteration, for Bernstein (Job
864, Glendale), 1942
flatfile
241**
Commercial structure, repair and alteration, for Hawkins
Investment Company (Torrance), 1942
flatfile
242**
Apartment buildings on Beverly Glen (Los Angeles
[West Los Angeles]), 1942
flatfile
244**
House for Marfay Development Company (Beverly
Hills), 1942
FHA housing development (Hawthorne), 1943
box
folder
21*
3
Drawings
flatfile
244A**
Print of tract map
flatfile
245**
Clifton's Cafeteria, 618 South Olive Street, new alley
entrance (Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1943
San Fernando Country Club (Los Angeles [San
Fernando Valley]), 1944
Two different schemes/clubs shown; one plan labeled Dallas Texas Country Club.
flatfile
246**-247**
Drawings
box
folder
2
19
Notes
flatfile
248**
Shipstad House, alterations (Los Angeles
[Encino]), 1944
flatfile
249**-250**
Hollingsworth House (Beverly Hills), 1944
Maschio House (Beverly Hills), 1944-1945
Includes various schemes for residence; also includes drawings for alteration of
small commercial building.
box
folder
2
20
Documentation
Includes sketches, notes and photographs.
flatfile
251**-252**
Drawings
Haffen House, alteration (Los Angeles
[Brentwood]) 1944, 1998
flatfile
253**
Drawings, 1944
box
folder
2
24
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
flatfile
255**
Churchill House (Bremerton, WA), circa 1944
Bullock's Pasadena (Pasadena), 1944
box
31, 34
Stereo slides of model
Glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural
photographer; green cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass; black
cardboard are different images.
box
folder
35
2
35mm slides
Photographs of renderings of interior and exterior.
box
folder
29
1
Colorized photographs
flatfile
257**-259**
Coleman House (Job 905, Los Angeles [Pacific
Palisades]), 1945-1946
Pan Pacific Arena (Job 911, Los Angeles
[Fairfax]), 1945
box
36**-37**
Drawings
box
folder
35
1
Slides of renderings
flatfile
260**
Pan Pacific Arena, signage (Los Angeles
[Fairfax]), 1945
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
flatfile
285**
Schick's, women's apparel shop (Job 943, Long
Beach), 1947
box
40**
Gude's Store Building (Job 946,
Pasadena), 1947
Bates House (Job 950, Monterey) 1946-1948, 1997
flatfile
286**
Standard drawings, 1946-1948
box
41**
Oversize drawings, 1948
box
42**
Topographic prints, 1946
box
folder
2
25
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
Seeburg House (Job 951, Beverly
Hills), 1946-1947
box
43**
Original drawings
box
44**
Prints of drawings
Bullock's Palm Springs (Palm Springs), 1946
box
folder
29
6
Colorized photographs
box
folder
35
3
35mm slides of renderings of interior
General Petroleum Building (Job 952, Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1947
box
209**
Drawings
box
31, 34
Stereo slides
Views of interior, exterior and garage; glass-mounted examples bear label of
Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies
of the glass.
box
261**
Presentation board
Reduced-scale drawings and photographs of the General Petroleum garage and
Bullock's Westwood mounted on hardboard.
Moreno House (Job 954, Los Angeles [Pacific
Palisades]), circa 1947
flatfile
287**-289**
Drawings
box
folder
2
26
Notes
Parker House, alteration and addition (Job 956,
Los Angeles [Mandeville Canyon]), circa 1945-1947, 1998
flatfile
290**
Original drawings, circa 1947
box
45**
Topographic print, 1945
box
folder
2
27
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
flatfile
291**
Nancy's, store alteration (Job 957, Los Angeles
[Hollywood]), 1947
Prudential Insurance Company, Western Home Office
(Job 963, Los Angeles [Miracle Mile]), 1948-1949
flatfile
301**
Standard drawings
box
46**
Oversize drawing
box
folder
35
4
Microfilm of parking drawing
box
32, 34
Stereo slides
Stereo slides of exterior, some views include Van de Kamp's and Becket Office;
glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural
photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
box
folder
35
4
35mm slides
Ground-breaking, construction, exterior of finished structure.
Security First National Bank, Prudential Square
(Job 963A, Los Angeles [Miracle Mile]) 1948, 1997
box
47**
Drawings, 1948
box
folder
2
28
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
box
48**
Innes Shoe Company Store Service Stair, Prudential
Building (Job 963C, Los Angeles [Miracle Mile]), 1949
Includes plans of store by Burton A. Schutt.
Club Bingo, alteration and completion (Job 964,
Las Vegas, NV) 1947
flatfile
307**
Standard drawings
box
49**
Oversize drawings
flatfile
221**-222**
Salvatori Bath House (Job 965, Los Angeles
[Bel-Air]), 1947
flatfile
292**
Becket Beach House (Job 967, Malibu), 1947
flatfile
293**
Firestone, retail store building (Job 968,
Glendale), 1947
flatfile
294**
Firestone, retail store building (Job 970, Los
Angeles [Leimert Park]), 1947
box
31, 34
Bullock's Wilshire, Parking Structure (Los Angeles
[Koreatown]), 1947
31, 34
Stereo slides of structure
Glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural
photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
box
folder
35
1
35mm slide of rendering
Ohrbach's, Prudential Square (Job 973, Los Angeles
[Miracle Mile]), 1948
Original drawings
flatfile
300**
Standard
box
50**-51**
Oversize
box
52**
Prints of drawings
box
32, 34
Stereo slides of interior and exterior
Glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural
photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
Office building for Marfay Development / Wurdeman &
Becket Office (Job 979, Los Angeles [Miracle Mile]), 1948
flatfile
295**-296**
Drawings
box
folder
35
5
Slides
Construction and exterior of finished structure; one view also includes Van de
Kamp's.
flatfile
297**-299**
Brock's Department Store, alterations and
additions (Job 982, Bakersfield), 1947-1948
flatfile
329**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, Beth Olam Chapel
(Job 983, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1948
flatfile
308**
Halper House, alterations (Beverly
Hills), 1948
University of California, Los Angeles, Master Plan and
Medical Center (Job 986, Los Angeles [Westwood]), 1948-1951
box
60**
Preliminary drawings for Medical Center
box
folder
4
1
Aerial photographs of Medical Center and master plan
box
33, 34
Stereo slides of master plan campus model
Glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural
photographer; cardboard-mounted slide is copy of the glass.
box
33
Stereo slides of Medical Center Building
Stereo slides of model and construction; glass-mounted examples bear label of
Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural photographer.
flatfile
329**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, addition of Corridor
M-4 (Job 990, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1948
Fluor Corporation Engineering Building (Job 991,
Commerce), 1948
box
53**-54**
Architectural drawings
box
55**
Structural drawings
box
56**
Electrical, plumbing, air conditioning drawings
Tract housing for Kaiser Community Homes (Job
992), 1948, 2009
Drawings, 1948
flatfile
309**-312**
Panorama City
flatfile
313**-314**
San Jose
flatfile
315**
Monterey Park
box
folder
2
29
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 2009
Pacific Hills Development, "Houses of Tomorrow," for
Senness (Job 995 and 995C, Torrance), 1948, 1997
flatfile
316**-317**
Tract office drawings, 1948
flatfile
318**-319**
House drawings, 1948
box
folder
2
30
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
box
15
Wurdeman (Walter C.) House, Copa de Oro,
alterations (Job 996, Los Angeles [Bel Air]), 1948
Photograph album by Fred R. Dapprich.
Buffum's (Santa Ana), 1948
box
34
Stereo slides
box
folder
35
6
35mm slides
flatfile
334A**
Rheem Building (Los Angeles), 1948
Hall Brothers retail store, 11th Street (Job 997,
Kansas City, MO), 1948-1949
flatfile
325**-326**
Standard Drawings
box
57**
Oversize drawing
flatfile
321**
Rector Theater (Job 1002, Compton), 1948-1949
Bullock's Westwood (Los Angeles
[Westwood]), 1949
box
261**
Presentation board
Reduced-scale drawings and photographs of the General Petroleum garage and
Bullock's Westwood mounted on hardboard.
box
31, 34
Stereo slides
Stereo slides of model and interior and exterior of structure; glass-mounted
examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural photographer; green
cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass; silver-mounted cardboard are
different images.
flatfile
320**
Buffum House, alteration (Job 1005, Seal
Beach), 1948
flatfile
332**
Brock's Department Store, alterations and additions -
beauty salon (Job 1015, Bakersfield), 1948
flatfile
335**
Hill-Richards Company Office (Job 1019, Los
Angeles [Downtown]), circa 1948
335**
Rohm & Haas Company Offices (Job 1022, Los
Angeles [Miracle Mile]), 1949
In Marfay Building.
flatfile
322**-323**
Office building (Job 1046,
Sacramento), 1949
flatfile
327**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, Administration
Building, additions and alterations (Job 1052 and 1052-1, Los Angeles
[Hollywood]), 1949
flatfile
328**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, Corridor Mausoleum M-5
(Job 1053), Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1949
flatfile
333**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, Beth Olam Memorial Hall
(Job 1054, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1949-1951
Includes one 1951 drawing with signature block of the firm of Welton Becket and
Associates.
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
Hall (Cameron) House (Job 1083, Beverly
Hills), 1950, 1998
box
58**
Drawings, 1950
box
folder
2
35
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
Hall Brothers retail store, Grand Avenue (Job
1090, Kansas City, MO), 1950
With Marshall & Brown.
flatfile
334**
Standard drawings
box
59**
Oversize drawings
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, various (Los
Angeles [Hollywood]), 1950, undated
flatfile
335A**
Pan Pacific Auditorium, grandstand alterations
(Los Angeles [Fairfax]), undated
box
folder
30
3
Cabin, undated
Colorized photographs
flatfile
245**
Boos Brothers Cafeteria, 530 South Hill Street, coat
rack (Los Angeles [Downtown]), undated
box
17
Unidentified Wurdeman and Becket
projects, undated
Remnants of unbound photograph album, used as a general photograph housing;
photographs moved to relevant projects; one unidentified photograph remains.
Drawings and photographic material documenting the work of the firm of Welton Becket
and Associates form Series IV. Approximately 200 projects designed under the guidance of
Welton Becket form the majority of the series. A much smaller group of projects,
approximately twenty-five, represented by photographs only, are the work of the firm
after Becket's death.
Arrangement
The series is arranged in rough chronological order guided by job numbers and project
dates, with undated and unidentified materials at the end.
flatfile
435**, 439**, 733**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, Memorial Mausoleum and
sculptures (Job 1027 (1072?), Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1950-1951
flatfile
436**
Saint Francis Hotel, entrance and lobby
alterations (Job 1091, San Francisco), 1951
Becket (Welton D.) House (Job 1102, Los Angeles
[Holmby Hills]), 1950-1951
Also includes later patio plans.
flatfile
446**-447**
Drawings
box
165**
Oversize drawings
flatfile
437**-438**
First National Bank of Arizona, Bank and Office
Building (Job 1117, Phoenix, AZ), 1950
flatfile
439**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, addition of Corridor
M-6 (Job 1121, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1950
flatfile
435**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, addition of Corridor
G-3 and G-4 (Job 1122, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1950
flatfile
439**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, addition of Corridor
G-4 (Job 1123, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1950
box
33, 34
Van de Kamp's Coffee Shop and Bakery (Los Angeles
[Miracle Mile]), 1950
Stereo slides of interior and exterior; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas
M. Simmonds, architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the
glass.
box
32, 34
Lever Brothers Plant (Commerce), 1949
Stereo slides of exterior; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
flatfile
501**
Post-War Home, alteration (Job 1128, Los Angeles
[Mis-Wilshire]), 1951
flatfile
500**
Spencer's Drive-in Restaurant (Job 1135, Los
Angeles [West Los Angeles]), 1951
flatfile
439**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, addition of Corridor
M-7 (Job 1162, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1951
flatfile
440**
John W. Yates Agency, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company (Job 1165, Los Angeles [Westlake]), 1951
box
32, 34
Remington Rand Building (Los Angeles
[Westlake]), 1951
Stereo slides of exterior; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
box
32,34
McCulloch Motors Recreation Building (Los Angeles
[Westchester]), 1951
Stereo slides; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
box
32, 34
Police Facilities Building [Parker Center] (Los
Angeles [Downtown]), 1951
Stereo slides of model; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
32, 34
Hillsdale Shopping Center (San Mateo), 1951
Stereo slides of model; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; some cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
box
34
Stix Baer Fuller (St. Louis, MO), 1951
Stereo slides of model.
box
32, 34
Lockheed Engineering Building and Airquipment
Hangar (Burbank), 1951
Stereo slides; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; green cardboard-mounted slide is copy of the glass.
box
33, 34
Westgate Shopping Center (Milwaukee,
WI), 1951
Stereo slides of model; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slide is copy of the glass.
National City Bank of New York (Job 1169, Sao
Paulo, Brazil), 1952, 1997
flatfile
441**-443**
Drawings, 1952
box
folder
3
3
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
flatfile
444**
Janss Investment Corporation Building (Job 1170,
Los Angeles [Westwood]), circa 1952
Plans of existing building.
flatfile
445**
Alterations to 5655 Wilshire (Job 1174, Los
Angeles [Miracle Mile]), 1952
Mount Sinai Hospital (Los Angeles [Beverly
Grove]), 1952
With Palmer, Krisel and Lindsay.
flatfile
481**
Drawings
box
32, 34
Stereo slides of model
Glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural
photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
flatfile
448**
Superior Oil Building, Penthouse (Beverly
Hills), 1952
box
31, 34
Abbey Rents Showroom and Warehouse (Beverly
Hills), 1952
Stereo slides of exterior; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slide is a copy.
box
32, 34
River Park Shopping Center (Philadelphia,
PA), 1952
Stereo slides of model; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
box
34
Park Central Shopping Center (Phoenix, AZ), 1952
Stereo slides of model.
flatfile
449**-452**
Hallmark Store, alteration and Hallmark Cards, Building B
(Job 1178 and 1179, Kansas City, MO), 1952-1954
Standard Federal Savings & Loan Association
Building (Job 1184, Los Angeles [Westlake]), 1952, 1997
flatfile
554**-555**
Drawings, 1952
box
folder
3
4
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
box
33, 34
Stereo slides, circa 1952
Stereo slides of model and interior and exterior of finished structure;
glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds, architectural
photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
flatfile
502**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, Cathedral
Mausolem (Job 1187, 1188, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1952-1956
McCulloch House (Job 1192, Palm
Springs), 1953-1955
flatfile
453**
Standard drawings
box
61**-62**
Oversize drawings
flatfile
454**
Hall, various projects (Job 1194), 1952, undated
Various small commercial and residential projects for the Hall family, including
alterations to Hall residence garage in Kansas City and a fireplace for a cabin in
Colorado.
flatfile
455**
Coutts-Hallmark (Job 1195, Toronto,
Canada), circa 1952
flatfile
456**
Hallmark Farm Dairy Barn and Pasteurizing Plant
(Job 1209, Kansas), 1952
flatfile
457**
Hall Brothers, sales and display rooms (Job 1210,
Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1952
flatfile
458**
Hall Brothers, artists and writers booths (Job
1212, Kansas City, MO), 1952
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
flatfile
698**
Mounted rendering, circa 1952
box
34
Stereo slide of model, circa 1952
flatfile
461**
Welton Becket AIA and Associates Offices (Job
1221, Kansas City, MO), 1952
Beverly Hilton Hotel (Beverly Hills), 1952-1957, 1997
Drawings, 1955
Partial set of electrical drawings only.
flatfile
729**
Standard drawings
box
171**
Oversize drawings
box
folder
3
1
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
flatfile
699**-701**
Mounted renderings, circa 1952
box
31, 34
Stereo slides, circa 1952
Stereo slides of model; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies.
box
folder
4
4
Photographs, circa 1955-1957
Includes photographs of interior and exterior views of finished structure and
photograph of rendering of addition; includes photographs by Julius Shulman, Spence
Air Photos.
flatfile
503**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, addition of Corridor
M-8 (Job 1230, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1952
KFAC Radio Station, Prudential Building (Job 1234,
Los Angeles [Miracle Mile]), 1952, 1998
box
173**
Drawings, 1952
box
folder
3
6
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
flatfile
463**-466**
Joseph Magnin Store, Stonestown Shopping Center
(Job 1237, San Francisco), 1952
flatfile
786**
Prudential Office, alteration (Los Angeles
[Miracle Mile]), 1952
Hollywood Bowl, rehabilitation, alterations and
additions (Job 1239, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1952-1954, 1997
Drawings, 1952-1954
flatfile
462**
Standard drawings
box
63**
Oversize original drawings
box
64**
Oversize survey plan prints
box
folder
3
7
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
flatfile
467**
Hallmark Farm Bull Barn (Job 1261,
Kansas), 1953
flatfile
472**
Second Floor Drafting Room, Welton Becket and Associates
Office (Job 1273, Los Angeles [Miracle Mile]), 1953
box
65**-67**
Hotel for Gensbro Hotel Company (Job 1274, Las
Vegas, NV), 1954
flatfile
502**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, Memorial Mausoleum
frieze (Job 1275, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1952
flatfile
468**
Pan-American World Airways, Ticket Office (Job
1312 and 1376, Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1952
With Kahn and Jacobs, New York.
flatfile
435**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, remodelling of Santa
Monica Blvd. frontage (Job 1327, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1953
435**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, addition of Corridor
M-9 (Job 1329, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1953
Childrens Hospital Research Laboratory and Lecture
Assembly Building (Job 1333, Los Angeles), 1953
box
68**
Drawings
box
34
Stereo slide of model
Hody's Restaurant (Job 1337, Long
Beach), 1953
flatfile
469**-470**
Drawings
box
folder
4
2
Proofs of photographs by Douglas M. Simmonds
box
69**
Joseph Magnin Store (Job 1338, Walnut
Creek), 1953
flatfile
471**
Hilton (Baron) House, additions and alterations
(Job 1346, Los Angeles [Brentwood]), 1953
Ohrbach's Downtown (Job 1353, Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1953
flatfile
473**-474**
Standard drawings
box
70**
Oversize drawings
box
34
Emporium, Stonestown Shopping Center (San
Francisco), 1953
Stereo slides of interior.
box
31, 34
Baptist Memorial Hospital (Kansas City,
MO), 1953
Stereo slides of model, possibly photographed by Douglas M. Simmonds.
31, 34
Air Force Recreation Center
circa 1953
Stereo slides of model; glass mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard mounted slide is a copy.
31, 34
Casablanca Hotel (Las Vegas, NV), 1953
Stereo slides of model; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
31, 34
Gimbel's, 1953
Stereo slides of model; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
box
32, 34
La Mirada Shopping Center (La Mirada), 1953
Stereo slides of model; glass-mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard-mounted slides are copies of the glass.
Nile Hilton Hotel (Cairo, Egypt), 1953-1955
Drawings
Numbered sets
box
224**-244**
Architectural
flatfile
774**
Structural
box
245**-247**
Air conditioning
box
248**-249**
Plumbing
box
250**
Electrical
Only one drawing of the set.
flatfile
780**
Refrigeration
box
256**
Reflected ceiling
box
250**
Parking
250**
Health club
box
258**
Landscaping
box
257**
Typical plans
Furnishings
Some drawings are numbered.
flatfile
775**-779**
Standard
box
251**-255**
Oversize
Miscellaneous drawings
flatfile
781**-783**
Standard
box
259**
Oversize
flatfile
708**
Mounted rendering
By Mario Valenzuela.
box
folder
4
3
Photographs
Includes photographs of model, construction and interior and exterior views of
finished structure; includes photographs by Herbert Bruce Cross, Rondal Partridge,
Vanguard Photography, Avedissian.
box
34
Stereo slides
Stereo slides of model, views of the Nile and the pyramids; also the demolition of
the Qasr el Nil barracks.
Habana Hilton Hotel (Havana, Cuba), 1953-1957
With Arroyo y Menendez, Arquitectos.
Drawings
Numbered sets of drawings relating to the structure
Architectural
box
176**-180**
Drawings on linen
box
181**-182**
Prints
box
183**-184**
Structural
Electrical
flatfile
756**
Standard
box
185**-186**
Oversize
box
187**-190**
Plumbing
Air conditioning
flatfile
742**
Standard
box
191**
Oversize
box
192**
Power plant and fire suppression
Revisions (1000 series)
box
folder
25*
10
Index
flatfile
735**-741**
Standard drawings
box
folder
25*
1-6
Small details
Numbered sets of drawings relating to interior design
Decoration (D series)
flatfile
743**-747**
Standard
box
193**
Oversize
Furnishings (F series)
flatfile
751**-753**
Standard
box
193**
Oversize
flatfile
754**
Lighting (L series)
754**
Accessories (?) (A series)
Furnishings (5000 series)
box
22*-24*
Small drawings
flatfile
755**
Standard
box
folder
25*
8
China designs
Drawings by usage
Lobby shops
flatfile
757**-758**
Standard drawings
box
folder
25*
7
Small details
25*
9
Typical floor plans
flatfile
759**
Miscellaneous
box
32, 34
Stereo slides of model
flatfile
475**-476**
State Farm Insurance Company, Branch Office (Job
1400, Santa Ana), 1954
Silverwoods, alteration (Job 1420, Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1954
flatfile
624**
Standard drawings
box
99**
Oversize drawings
City National Bank Building (Job 1421, 1439,
Beverly Hills), 1954-1955
flatfile
477**
Drawings
box
34
Stereo slides of model
flatfile
478**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, addition of storage
room (Job 1432, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1954
box
71**
Hart's Store (Job 1454, San Jose), 1954
Capitol Records Building (Job 1456, Los Angeles
[Hollywood]), 1954-1956
Acquisition Information
Capitol Records Building drawings and photographs: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Welton
McDonald Becket, Laguna Beach, CA.
Drawings
flatfile
589**-590**
Architectural drawings
flatfile
591**
Electrical drawings
flatfile
592**
Plumbing drawings
flatfile
593**
Details and revisions
Also includes drawing for parking facilities, Job 1745.
box
122**
Oversize detail drawing
Photography
box
31, 34
Stereo slides
Stereo slides of model; glass-mounted examples may be by Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; green-cardboard mounted slides are copies of the
glass, red-mounted cardboard is different image.
box
folder
5
23
Aerial photograph
Includes correspondence.
flatfile
479**
Marfay Building, alterations (Job 1472, Los
Angeles [Miracle Mile]), 1954
box
31, 34
Broadway Valley (Los Angeles [Panorama
City]), 1954
Stereo slides of model; glass mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; one cardboard mounted slide is a Simmonds copy, the other
is a different image.
flatfile
480**
New York Life Insurance Company Office Building
(Job 1485, Los Angeles [Westlake]), 1955
box
34
Sun Hotel (Las Vegas, NV), circa 1955
Stereo slides of model.
Hawaii Kai Hotel/Hawaiian Village (Job 1488,
Waikiki, Hawaii), 1956
box
168**-169**
Drawings
box
folder
4
12
Photographs of finished structure
flatfile
732**
Southern Nevada Power Company Office Building (Job
1490, Las Vegas, NV), 1954
flatfile
478**
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, addition of Corridors
M-10 and M-11 (Job 1503, 1504, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1955
Includes prints of drawings by A.E. Vitaro, store architect.
flatfile
631**
Standard drawings
box
123**
Oversize drawings
Greyhound Terminal Building (Job 4937, Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1965
box
154**-155**
Drawings
flatfile
522**-523**
Mounted renderings
United Savings Building (Job 5022, Los Angeles
[Westchester]), 1964, 1997
flatfile
613**-614**
Drawings, 1964
box
folder
3
15
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
Pacific Cinema Center [Cinerama Dome] (Job 5038,
Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1963, 1997
flatfile
608**-612**
Drawings, 1963
box
folder
3
2
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
flatfile
632**-635**
Security Bank Building (Job 5065, Santa
Ana), 1964
flatfile
641**-644**
El Puerto de Liverpool (Job 5107, Mexico City,
Mexico), 1963-1964
box
222**-223**
Ohrbach's, Valley (Job 5128, Los Angeles [Panorama
City]), 1964
flatfile
514**-515**
South Hills Village Shopping Center (Pittsburgh,
PA), 1964
Mounted renderings only.
flatfile
640**
First Western Bank (Job 5204, Fresno), 1964
flatfile
636**-639**
First Western Bank (Job 5274, Fresno), 1965
flatfile
615**-618**
Happy Valley School (Job 5283, Ojai), 1965, 1998
615**-618**
Drawings, 1965
box
folder
3
16
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
box
folder
4
20
Pomona City Hall (Pomona), 1965
Photographs by Marvin Rand.
flatfile
534**
Office Building for Hirschmann Corporation
(Chicago, IL), circa 1965
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
528**
Somerset Apartments, circa 1965
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
513**
Los Angeles Customs House and Federal Office
Building (Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1965
Welton Becket and Associates, coordinator, with Albert C. Martin and Associates and
Paul R. Williams and Associates; mounted rendering only.
flatfile
707**
6300 Sunset Blvd. Office and Bank Building (Los
Angeles [Hollywood]), 1965-1966
Mounted rendering only.
Kaufmann's (Job 5288, McKnight Rd., Allegheny
County, PA), 1965-1966
flatfile
619**-623**
Standard drawings
box
124**
Oversize drawings
Kaufmann's (Job 5419, Rochester, PA), 1965-1966
flatfile
625**-630**
Standard drawings
box
125**-126**
Oversize drawings
box
129**-130**
Hughes Aircraft Building (Job 5545, El
Segundo), 1965
flatfile
704**
UCLA Medical Center, Basic Science 2A (Los Angeles
[Westwood], 1965
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
551**
Cole Porter Theatre (Los Angeles [Century
City]), 1965
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
772**-773**
Pacific Electric Club, alterations (Job 5560, Los
Angeles [Downtown]), 1966
Includes prints and photocopies of earlier Parkinson & Parkinson drawings.
box
127**-128**
Golden West Broadcasters, KTLA, headquarters and TV
studios (Job 5575, Los Angeles [North Hollywood]), 1966
Southern Cross Hotel (Melbourne,
Australia), 1966
box
folder
4
16
Black-and-white photographs
Photographs of demolition at site, construction and interior and exterior views of
finished structure; includes photographs by Athol Shmith and John Cato.
box
folder
35
15
Color photographs
flatfile
661**
Lawry's Prime Rib, parking garage (Job 5580,
Beverly Hills), 1966
flatfile
547**
UCLA Medical Center, School of Dentistry (Los
Angeles [Westwood]), 1966
Mounted rendering only.
box
folder
35
8
Gulf Life Insurance Building (Jacksonville,
FL), 1966
Slides showing construction.
Fashion Island/Newport Center (Newport
Beach), 1966-1967
flatfile
508**-512**
Buffum's
Mounted renderings only.
flatfile
530**
Desmond's
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
531**
Bob Burns
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
702**
Broadway
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
532**
Silverwoods
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
703**
Tobacconist
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
645**
May Company store (Job 5582,
Montclair), 1967
flatfile
705**
Equitable Life Building (Job 5635, Los Angeles
[Koreatown]), 1967
Mounted rendering only.
Ducommun Incorporated Offices (Job 5642, Los
Angeles [Downtown]), 1966
In the Mobil Oil (General Petroleum) Building.
box
folder
3
18
Specifications and sketches
flatfile
659**-660**
Drawings
flatfile
656**-658**
Nordstrom Best (Job 5684, Bellevue,
WA), 1967
flatfile
649**-655**
Kaufmann's (Job 5771, Rochester, PA), 1967
box
folder
4
17
Hotel Inter-Continental (Phnom Penh,
Cambodia), 1967
Photograph of rendering.
box
132**-140**
Garrett Corporation, administration and office building
(Job 5799, Torrance), 1968
box
144**-145**
Ohrbach's (Job 5821, Los Angeles [Miracle
Mile]), 1968
flatfile
662**
Computer Sciences Institute, 7th floor (Job 5852,
El Segundo), 1968
box
172**
E.W. Edwards & Son, De Witt Shopping Center
(Job 5863, Syracuse, NY), 1968
Only one sheet from set of drawings.
Capitol Records Building, addition (Job 5872, Los
Angeles [Hollywood]), 1968
Acquisition Information
Capitol Records Building drawings and photographs: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Welton
McDonald Becket, Laguna Beach, CA.
flatfile
595**-596**
Standard drawings
flatfile
597**-607**
Presentation boards
box
260**-260A**
Centinela Medical Building (Job 5884,
Inglewood), 1968
box
172**
Computer Sciences Corporation (Job 5899, Los
Angeles [Century City]), 1968
Only one sheet from set of drawings.
flatfile
646**-647**
Venetian Hotel (Job 2858, Disneyworld,
FL), 1968
Welton Becket with WED Enterprises.
flatfile
648**
Persian Hotel (Job 2870, Disneyworld,
FL), 1968
Welton Becket with WED Enterprises.
box
folder
4
18
Hotel Inter-Continental (Auckland, New
Zealand), 1968
Includes photographs construction and interior and exterior views of finished
structure; includes photographs by Athol Shmith & John Cato, and Barry McKay.
flatfile
533**
California Institute of Technology, Business Service
Building (Pasadena), 1968
Mounted rendering only.
flatfile
550**
UCLA, School of Public Health (Los Angeles
[Westwood]), 1968
Mounted rendering only.
box
folder
4
19
Manila Hilton (Manila, Philippines), 1968
Photograph of rendering by Mutin.
4
21
McDonnell Douglas (Orange County), 1968
Photographs of model, drawings and rendering by R. Kaminski; includes photographs by
Glen Allison.
box
161**-164**
LAX Hilton Hotel (Job 5922, Los
Angeles), 1969
flatfile
594**
Capitol Records Building, reverberation chamber
addition (Job 5940, Los Angeles [Hollywood]), 1969
Acquisition Information
Capitol Records Building drawings and photographs: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Welton
McDonald Becket, Laguna Beach, CA.
Park Plaza Shopping Center (Job 2797, Oshkosh,
WI), 1969
box
166**-167**
Drawings
box
folder
4
25
Photographs
Photographs of site plan and finished structure; includes photographs by Orlando R.
Cabanban.
4
22
IHC Kinshasa, Apartment Tower, 1969
Photograph of rendering.
4
23
State Street South (Boston, MA), 1969
Photographs, including work by Balthazar Korab.
State Street North (Boston, MA), 1969
box
folder
4
24
Black-and-white photographs of renderings
box
folder
35
11
Color photograph of model
box
folder
4
26
Cañada College (Woodside), 1969
Photographs of exterior.
box
folder
5
1
Plymouth Village, 1970
Photographs of renderings.
Tehran Sheraton Hotel (Tehran, Iran), 1970
box
folder
5
2
Black-and-white photograph of model
Photograph by Louis Checkman.
box
folder
35
13
Color photograph of rendering
Photograph by Gil Amiaga.
box
folder
5
3
Arya Sheraton Hotel (Tehran, Iran), 1970
Photographs of model and renderings; some photographs by Louis Checkman.
5
4
Luxor Sheraton Hotel (Luxor, Egypt), 1970
Photograph of rendering.
5
5
Northrop Building (Job 5962, Los Angeles [Century
City]), 1971
Photographs of model and exterior and interior views of finished structure,
especially the Wells Fargo Bank; some photographs by Marvin Rand.
flatfile
519**-521**
Contemporary Hotel (Disneyworld, FL), 1971
Mounted renderings only.
Worcester Center (Worcester, MA), 1971
Photographs of architectural drawings (plans, elevations and renderings), site
construction and exterior and interior views of finished structure; includes
photographs by Ezra Stoller, Gorchev and Gorchev, and Daniel P. Duffy.
box
folder
5
6
Black-and-white photographs
box
folder
35
10
Color photographs
box
folder
5
7
Transpo/72 Master Plan (Washington,
D.C.), 1972
Photographs of model and renderings.
5
8
Grand Ole Opry House (Nashville, TN), 1972
Photographs of construction and interior and exterior of finished structure.
5
9
Stouffer's Inn (Cincinnati, OH), 1974
Photographs of renderings.
5
10
One Lincoln Center (Syracuse, NY), 1975
Photographs of exterior; part of Clinton Square development project.
Morris Cerullo World Outreach Center (San
Diego), 1978
Photograph of site plan.
5
14
Security National Bank Office Building
(Glendale), 1978
Photographs of rendering and exterior.
5
15
Sea/Aire Executive Center (Dania, FL), 1978
Photograph of rendering.
5
16
University Mall, 1978
Photograph of rendering by R. Kaminski.
5
17
Hyatt Regency Hotel (Louisville, KY), 1978
Photographs of renderings.
5
18
Hyatt Regency Hotel (Washington,
D.C.), 1978
Photographs of rendering and exterior and interior views of finished structure;
includes photographs by J. Alexander and Balthazar Korab.
5
19
Baguio Hotel (Baguio, Philippines), 1978
Photograph of rendering.
Champs Elysees, Caesar's World Resort (Las Vegas,
NV), 1980
box
folder
5
20
Photograph of rendering
Rendering by Siegfried Knop.
box
folder
35
12
Color photograph of model
box
folder
5
21
Connor Hall, University of Georgia (Athens,
GA), 1980
Photograph of elevation drawing.
5
24
Unidentified photographs, undated
IHC hotels?
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, various (Los
Angeles [Hollywood]), undated
Materials relating to various Hollywood Cemetery jobs, includes, collected prints,
miscellaneous shop drawings, site maps, and prints of other architects' work on the
site.
flatfile
664**-666**
Standard drawings
box
174**
Oversize drawings
flatfile
748**
Hughes Research, undated
Mounted rendering only.
box
31, 34
Carson Pirie Scott Shopping Center, undated
Stereo slides of model; glass mounted examples bear label of Douglas M. Simmonds,
architectural photographer; cardboard mounted slides are copies of the glass.
Drawings for two groups of collaborative projects implemented by Wurdeman and Becket
outside their normal firm structure form Series V. The projects are contemporaneous with
the firm of Wurdeman and Becket, but very different from the firm's standard practice.
The bulk of this material relates to work done for the Navy during World War II.
Beginning in 1942, Wurdeman and Becket joined forces with Louis Bodmer, an architect
practicing in San Diego. Initially working as associated firms, but quickly shifting to
a Bodmer, Wurdeman and Becket signature block, the firm produced over 14,000 housing
units for military families and defense workers.
The other group of collaborative projects in this series consists of housing projects
commissioned by The Housing Authority Council of Los Angeles (HACLA). A group of leading
architects, known as the Southeast Housing Architects Associated, which included Paul R.
Williams, Richard Neutra, Gordon Kaufman, and Adrian Wilson, as well as Wurdeman and
Becket, worked together to design new options for low-cost housing using a limited range
of materials.
Also included in this series are drawings and photographs lacking full identification.
The degree to which these items are unidentified varies. Some drawings can not be
connected to a project, some projects can not be assigned to a firm, and some drawings
are by other architects with an unclear connection to the projects in this archive.
Arrangement
The series is arranged by project groupings, with unidentified materials at the
end.
Bodmer, Wurdeman and Becket, 1942-1945, 2009
flatfile
672**
Prefabricated House for FWA (San
Diego), 1942
Linda Vista Auditorium and Tenant Activity
Building (Cal-4092, San Diego), 1943, 2009
flatfile
673**
Drawings, 1943
box
folder
3
28
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 2009
flatfile
674**
Tenant Activity and Child Services Trailer
(Cal-4095, San Diego), 1944
Signed Wurdeman and Becket.
flatfile
675**
Bay View Terrace, Child Service Center
(Cal-4096, San Diego), 1943
Azure Vista Victory Housing Project (Cal-4251
and 4253, San Diego), 1942-1943, 2009
flatfile
676**-677**
Drawings, 1942-1943
box
146**
Preliminary site plans, 1942-1943
flatfile
678**
Line negatives of topographic plans, 1942-1943
box
folder
3
29
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 2009
flatfile
679**
Los Altos Community Building and Child Service
Center (Cal-4254, San Diego), 1943
Shangri-La Apartments (San Diego), 1943
flatfile
680**
Drawings
box
147**
Oversize print of contour map of site
Presidio Housing Project (Cal-4461, San
Diego), 1942-1944, 2009
flatfile
681**
Original drawings, 1942-1944
flatfile
682**-683**
Prints, 1942-1944
box
folder
3
30
Sketches and small drawings, 1942-1944
flatfile
684**-685**
As-Builts, 1942-1944
flatfile
686**
Contractor bid summary, 1943
box
148**
Oversize prints of topographic and utility maps, 1942
box
folder
3
30
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 2009
Frontier War Housing Project (Cal-4679, San
Diego), 1943-1944, 2009
flatfile
687**
Drawings, 1943-1944
box
149**
Oversize prints of topographic and utility maps, 1943
box
folder
3
31
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 2009
Loma Park War Trailer Project (Cal-4680, San
Diego), 1943, 2009
flatfile
688**
Drawings, 1943
box
150**
Oversize print of utility map, 1943
box
folder
3
32
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 2009
Frontier War Housing Project, extension
(Cal-4737, San Diego), 1943-1944, 2009
flatfile
689**-690**
Drawings, 1943-1944
box
216**
Oversize prints of topographic and utility maps, 1943
box
folder
3
31
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 2009
Frontier War Housing Project (Cal-4782, San
Diego), 1943-1944, 2009
flatfile
691**
Drawings, 1943-1944
box
147**
Oversize prints of topographic and utility maps, site plan, 1943
box
folder
3
33
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 2009
Speer Navy Housing Project (Cal-4915N, San
Diego), 1944
flatfile
692**
Drawings
box
151**
Oversize prints of topographic maps and site plans
flatfile
693**
Ream Navy Housing Project (Cal-4916N, San
Diego), 1944
flatfile
694**-696**
Torrey Pines Navy Housing Project (Cal-4917N,
San Diego), 1944-1945
box
152**
Voltaire Navy Housing Project (Cal-4995N, San
Diego), 1945
Projects for the Housing Authority of the City of Los
Angeles, 1939-1941, 2009
flatfile
667**-668**
Pueblo del Rio Housing Project (Cal 4-3, Los
Angeles [South Central-Alameda]), 1939
Southeast Housing Project Section 1 for the Housing Authority of the City of Los
Angeles (HACLA); group project with Gordon Kaufman, Paul R. Williams, Richard
Neutra, Adrian Wilson, Walter Wurdeman and Welton Becket.
flatfile
671**
Housing Project (Los Angeles
[Watts]), 1939?
Southeast Housing Project Section 2 for the Housing Authority of the City of Los
Angeles (HACLA); group project with Gordon Kaufman, Paul R. Williams, Richard
Neutra, Adrian Wilson, Walter Wurdeman and Welton Becket.
Hacienda Village / Watts Housing Project (Cal
4-10, Los Angeles [Watts]), 1940-1941, 2009
For the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA); group project with
Paul R. Williams, Richard Neutra, Adrian Wilson, Walter Wurdeman and Welton Becket;
includes drawings for two schemes and locations.
flatfile
669**-670**
Drawings, 1940-1941
box
153**
Set of prints, 1940-1941
box
folder
3
34
List of drawings and print-outs of photographs compiled by Welton
McDonald Becket, 2009
Unidentified materials, undated
Drawings
flatfile
770A**
Standard
box
220**-221**
Oversize
box
folder
21*
6-9
Details and small drawings
box
folder
35
9
Slides
Unidentified firm
flatfile
765**
Ladd House, alteration
flatfile
766**
Muni House, alterations and addition
flatfile
769**
Beachy House
flatfile
770**
Aronson House
Unidentified projects
flatfile
767**
Lyman House
Photocopies of early plans for house at 355 S. Windsor, by Allison and
Allison.
767**
Drawings
box
folder
3
36
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1997
Drawings created by the firm of Plummer and Feil, Interior Designers for five projects
form Series VI of the collection. Presumably Welton Becket retained these drawings after
the 1939 death of Charles Plummer, his partner in the firm of Plummer, Wurdeman and
Becket.
Arrangement
The series is arranged in rough chronological order.
Boos Brothers Cafeterias (Los Angeles
[Downtown]), 1913-1917
flatfile
337**
652 South Broadway, 1913
337**
328 South Broadway, 1914
flatfile
338**
648 South Broadway, alterations to building, 1914-1917
flatfile
339**
436 and 440 South Hill Street, 1914-1916
Also includes drawings for addition of showcase in 1915 and storm door vestibule in
1916.
flatfile
339A**
Unidentified location, 1914
Boos (Henry) House (Los Angeles [Lafayette
Square]), 1915, 1998
flatfile
342**
Drawings, 1915
box
folder
3
19
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
Boos (O. J.) House (Los Angeles [Lafayette
Square]), 1915, 1998
flatfile
341**
Drawings, 1915
box
folder
3
19
List of drawings compiled by Welton McDonald Becket, 1998
Boos Brothers Cafeterias (San
Francisco), 1915-1916
flatfile
343**
1059 Market Street, 1915-1916
Includes 1916 alterations to front.
725 Market Street, 1916
flatfile
344**
Standard drawings
box
121**
Oversize drawings
flatfile
340**
Boos (Horace) House (Los Angeles [Windsor
Square]), 1917
Includes grading plan for original planned location on Normandie Avenue.
Series VII is comprised of the drawings for about 90 projects created by Charles F.
Plummer during two periods of independent practice, from about 1919 to 1932 and then
from 1938 until his death early in 1939. Presumably Welton Becket retained these
drawings after the 1939 death of Charles Plummer, his partner in the firm of Plummer,
Wurdeman and Becket.
Arrangement
The series is arranged in rough chronological order guided by job numbers and project
dates, with undated and unidentified materials at the end.
flatfile
346**
Boos Brothers Cafeteria, 319 West 5th Street (Los
Angeles [Downtown]), 1919
flatfile
347**
Boos Brothers Cafeteria, 648 South Broadway,
alterations (Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1920
flatfile
350**
Boos Brothers Cafeteria, 436 South Hill Street,
alterations (Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1920-1922
flatfile
348**-349**
Store Building for J. G. Warren/Boos Brothers Cafeteria,
618-622 South Olive Street (Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1921-1922
flatfile
351**
Boos Brothers Cafeteria, service layout designs
(various locations), 1921
flatfile
352**
Edwin Clapp Shop, for De Witt C. Davis (Los
Angeles [Downtown]), 1922
flatfile
353**
Maxime's Millinery, alterations to building (Job
502, Los Angeles [Downtown]), 1923
Young's Market Building (Los Angeles [Westlake]), 1923-1925
