Myron Hunt (February 27, 1868–May 26, 1952) was an American architect whose numerous projects include many noted landmarks in Southern California. February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Southern California, also colloquially referred to as SoCal, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the U.S. state of California. ...

Early life and education

Hunt was born in Sunderland, Massachusetts but his family later moved to Chicago where he graduated from Lake View High School in the city's Lakeview district. From 1888 to 1890 he attended Northwestern University, and then returned to Massachusets to study at MIT between 1890 and 1893. After spending three years in Europe, he returned to Chicago where he obtained a position as draftsman in the local office of the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.[1] Sunderland is a town located in Franklin County, Massachusetts, part of the Pioneer Valley. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works. Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government... Lakeview (properly and historically spelled as Lake View) is a neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is located along the shore of Lake Michigan and runs approximately from Diversey Parkway on the south to Irving Park Road on the north and from Lake Michigan on the... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university, located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge was a notable architecture firm based in Boston, Massachusetts between 1886 and 1915. ...

Career

Hunt is mentioned in the writings of Frank Lloyd Wright and other Chicago architects of the era as an early member of the group which came to be known as the Prairie School, but in 1903 he moved to Los Angeles, where he entered into a partnership with local architect Elmer Grey (1871–1963). Opening an office in Pasadena, the firm of Hunt and Grey soon became popular with the well-to-do denizens of that city, who were building many costly houses during that period. Some of the firm's Pasadena work was featured in the national magazine Architectural Record as early as the issue of October, 1906.[2] They were soon designing large houses in communities throughout Southern California. Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867—April 9, 1959) was one of the most prominent and influential architects during the first half of the 20th century. ... It has been suggested that Prairie Houses be merged into this article or section. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type mayor-council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  465. ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Architectural Record is an American monthly magazine dedicated to architecture and interior design, published by McGraw-Hill Construction in New York City. ...

They also began receiving commisions to design larger projects, including hospitals, schools, churches and hotels. This included work for Throop Institute in Pasadena, the school which would soon become California Institute of Technology. In 1911, they began plans for the new campus of Occidental College in the Eagle Rock district of Los Angeles (Hunt would be the principal architect of all of Occidental's buildings through 1940). Another school wiht which the firm had an assocaition was Pomona College, for which Hunt and Grey designed a master plan of expansion in 1908, and where Hunt designed an auditorium, Bridges Hall of Music, in 1915.[3] The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Occidental College, located in Los Angeles, California, is a small private coeducational liberal arts college. ... The Eagle Rock Eagle Rock is a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles, California. ... The Smith Campus Center Fountain at Pomona College during the inauguration of College President David Oxtoby Pomona College is a small private residential liberal arts college located 30 miles (48 km) east of Downtown Los Angeles in Claremont, California. ...

In 1913, Hunt and Grey designed a new wing for the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. They provided designs for the remodeling, expansion, or construction of a number of hotels during the next decade, culminating with the plans for their largest such project, the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, which opened in 1921. Hunt also redesigned Pasadena's Wentworth Hotel, a failed resort hotel in the city's Oak Knoll residential district purchased by Henry E. Huntington in 1911. Rebuilt to Hunt's design, the hotel reopened as the Huntington Hotel in 1914 and was Pasadena's leading hotel for decades thereafter. The Mission Inn is a whimsical, mysterious and slightly bizarre historic landmark hotel in downtown Riverside, California. ... Nickname: The City of Trees Location in the state of California Coordinates: Country United States State California County Riverside Government  - Mayor Ron Loveridge Area  - City  78. ... The Ambassadors Cocoanut Grove circa the late 1950s. ... Henry Edwards Huntington (February 27, 1850 - May 23, 1927) was an American railroad pioneer and art collector. ...

Hunt and Grey's association with Henry Huntington had been established a few years earlier when, in 1909, they designed his house in San Marino which, with a large addition built in 1934, was to become the main art gallery of the cultural center built around the Huntington Library. The Huntington Library is an educational and research institution established by Henry Huntington in San Marino, California. ...

Other Pasadena landmarks designed by Hunt and Grey are the Rose Bowl and the Pasadena Playhouse. The Rose Bowl is a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena, California. ... The Pasadena Playhouse is a historic theatre located in Pasadena, California. ...

By 1926, Hunt was no longer in partnership with Elmer Grey, but had established a new firm with Los Angeles architect Harold C. Chambers. In this partnership Hunt designed a number of libraries, including those in Redlands, California, Palos Verdes Estates, California, Santa Barbara, California, and most notably the main library of Pasadena, one of the three major civic buildings making up the Pasadena Civic Center. Redlands is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. ... Palos Verdes Estates is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, USA on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. ... Santa Barbara is a city in California, United States. ...

Hunt retired to Port Hueneme, California where he died in 1952. Port Hueneme (pronounced port why-NEE-mee,) is a small harbor city in Ventura County, California surounded by Oxnard. ...