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 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. Works include (with attribution): * Board of Trade Building, 111 W. 7th St. Los Angeles, California (Curlett, Aleck), NRHP-listed * Building at 816 South Grand Avenue, 816 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, California (Curlett, Aleck), NRHP-listed *

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, 455 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach, California (Curlett & Beelman), NRHP-listed * Culver Hotel, 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 Equitable Building of Hollywood, also known as the Bank of Hollywood Building, was the second high-rise office building built at the intersection of Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, California. It is rendered in a late Gothic Revival and Art D ...

, 6253 W. Hollywood Blvd. (Curlett) * Haas Californiandy Factory, 54 Mint St. San Francisco, California (Curlett, William), NRHP-listed * Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building, 7415 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, California (Curlett & Beelman), NRHP-listed * Hotel Congress, 303-311 E. Congress St. Tucson, Arizona (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, Willi ...

, 700 Market St., San Francisco, California, NRHP-listed * Packard Library, 301 4th St. Marysville, California (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. San Francisco, California *

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. San Francisco, California (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 (Curlett, Aleck; William curlett & Son), NRHP-listed * Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Tucson, Arizona (Curlett, Aleck; William Curlett & Son), NRHP-listed * Roosevelt Building, 727 W. Seventh St. Los Angeles, California (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 (Curlett & Beelman), NRHP-listed * Villa Montalvo, 14800 Montalvo Rd. Saratoga, California (Curlett, William), NRHP-listed * Foreman & Clark Building, 701 South Hill St., Los Angeles (Curlett & Beelman)

Block, Curlett & Eisen

Works attributed to Block, Curlett & Eisen: * Potomac Block, 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

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