William F. Curlett (County Down, Ireland, March 3, 1846 – January 21, 1914, San Francisco) and Alexander Edward Curlett (called Aleck) (San Francisco, February 6, 1881 – September 5, 1942) were a father-and-son pair of architects. They worked together as partners under the name of William Curlett and Son, Architects from . Aleck Curlett partnered with

Claud Beelman Claud W. Beelman (1883 – January 30, 1963), sometimes known as ''Claude Beelman'', was an American architect who designed many examples of Beaux-Arts, Art Deco, and Streamline Moderne style buildings. Many of his buildings are listed on the N ...

as Curlett & Beelman (1919-1932). The San Francisco firm of Curlett, Eisen, & Cuthbertson, Architects, was active in the 1880s; it designed the Los Angeles County Courthouse in 1887. In 1888, the firm occupied Room #41 of the Downey Block. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1888, p. 768.)

Works

A number of works by either or both Curletts, and by Curlett & Beelman, are listed on the U.S.

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

. Works include (with attribution): * Board of Trade Building, 111 W. 7th St.

Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...

(Curlett, Aleck), NRHP-listed *

Building at 816 South Grand Avenue South Park Lofts, located in downtown Los Angeles, was built in 1924 as an eight-story parking garage. It was one of America's first parking structures, and is one of the few parking garages listed in the National Register of Historic Places, ha ...

, 816 S. Grand Ave.

(Curlett, Aleck), NRHP-listed * Cooper Arms, 455 E. Ocean Blvd.

Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California. Incorporate ...

(Curlett & Beelman), NRHP-listed *

Culver Hotel The Culver Hotel is a national historical landmark in downtown Culver City, California. It was built by Harry Culver, the founder of Culver City, and opened on September 4, 1924, with local headlines announcing: "City packed with visitors for op ...

, 9400 Culver Blvd.

Culver City, California Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,779. Founded in 1917 as a "whites only" sundown town, it is now an ethnically diverse city with what was called the "third-most d ...

(Curlett and Beelman), NRHP-listed * Equitable Building of Hollywood, 6253 W. Hollywood Blvd. (Curlett) * Haas Californiandy Factory, 54 Mint St.

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

(Curlett, William), NRHP-listed *

Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building The Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building, also known as the AT Heinsbergen & Company Building, is a historic building on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...

, 7415 Beverly Blvd.

(Curlett & Beelman), NRHP-listed *

Hotel Congress The Hotel Congress is a federally-recognized historic building located in downtown Tucson, Arizona, Tucson. It was built in 1918 and designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm William and Alexander Curlett as part of an expansion of Congress ...

, 303-311 E. Congress St.

Tucson, Arizona , "(at the) base of the black ill , nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town" , image_map = , mapsize = 260px , map_caption = Interactive map ...

(Curlett, Aleck; William Curlett & Son), NRHP-listed *

Mutual Savings Bank Building The Mutual Savings Bank Building, is a building located at 700 Market Street at the corner of Kearny, Market, and Geary Streets in the Financial District in San Francisco, California. It was built in 1902 and was designed by architect, William ...

, 700 Market St.,

, NRHP-listed *

Packard Library The Packard Library is a historic library building located at 301 4th St. in Marysville, California. Built in 1905–06, the library was sponsored by John Q. Packard and designed by San Francisco architect William Curlett. Curlett designed th ...

, 301 4th St.

Marysville, California Marysville is a city and the county seat of Yuba County, California, located in the Gold Country region of Northern California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 12,072, reflecting a decrease of 196 from the 12,268 counted ...

(Curlett,William), NRHP-listed *

Phelan Building The Phelan Building is an 11-story office building located at 760 Market Street in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. It has a triangular shape, similar to the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York City, with its tip at the ...

, 760 Market St.

Theodore F. Payne House The Theodore F. Payne House, also known as the Payne Mansion, is a Victorian house in the Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. Built in 1881 and designed by William Curlett in a mix of Stick, Eastlake, ...

, 1409 Sutter St.

(Curlett,William F.), NRHP-listed * Proper Hotel, orig. Commercial Club of Southern Californialifornia, later Californiase Hotel, 1100 S. Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles (1926, as of 2020 under renovation to open as hotel) * Rialto Building, 300-320 E. Congress St.

Tucson, Arizona , "(at the) base of the black ill , nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town" , image_map = , mapsize = 260px , map_caption = Interactive map ...

(Curlett, Aleck; William curlett & Son), NRHP-listed * Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St.

Tucson, Arizona , "(at the) base of the black ill , nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town" , image_map = , mapsize = 260px , map_caption = Interactive map ...

(Curlett, Aleck; William Curlett & Son), NRHP-listed *

Roosevelt Building The Roosevelt Building is a high-rise residential building located along 7th Street in Downtown Los Angeles. It was completed in 1926 and was designed by Claude Beelman and Alexander Curlett in an Italian Renaissance Revival style. It was late ...

, 727 W. Seventh St.

(Curlett, Aleck), NRHP-listed *

St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Berkeley, California) St. Mark's Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church in Berkeley, California, founded in 1877 by two University of California faculty families in a Victorian architecture, Victorian style, wood-frame pa ...

* Security Building, 234 N. Central

Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix ( ; nv, Hoozdo; es, Fénix or , yuf-x-wal, Banyà:nyuwá) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities and towns in Arizona#List of cities and towns, most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1 ...

(Curlett & Beelman), NRHP-listed *

Villa Montalvo The Montalvo Arts Center is a non-profit center for the arts in Saratoga, California, United States. Open to the public, Montalvo comprises a cultural and arts center, a park, hiking trails and the historic Villa Montalvo, an Italian Mediterran ...

, 14800 Montalvo Rd.

Saratoga, California Saratoga is a city in Santa Clara County, California. Located in Silicon Valley, in the southern Bay Area, its population was 31,051 at the 2020 census. Saratoga is an affluent residential community, known for its wineries, restaurants, and attra ...

(Curlett, William), NRHP-listed *

Foreman & Clark Building The Foreman & Clark Building is a historic building on the corner of Hill Street and 7th Street in Downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S.. It was built in 1929 to host the flagship store and corporate offices for clothing retailer Foreman & Clark ...

, 701 South Hill St., Los Angeles (Curlett & Beelman)

Block, Curlett & Eisen

Works attributed to Block, Curlett & Eisen: *

Potomac Block The Potomac Block was a commercial building with a historical role in the retail history of Los Angeles, at 213–223 S. Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, on the west side of Broadway between 2nd and 3rd streets. It was developed by lumberyard and ...

, west side of Broadway between 2nd and 3rd, Los Angeles, retail and offices, opened 1890

Curlett, Eisen & Cuthbertson

*New Lanfranco Block, built 1888, 214–222 North Main St., Los Angeles

References

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