Ross G. Montgomery (September 26, 1888 at Toledo, Ohio – February 14, 1969 at Los Angeles, California) was a Los Angeles-based architect, illustrator, and historian.

Biography

Montgomery designed the original St. Ambrose Church in

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, the St. Andrew's Catholic Church in

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, and the St. Cecilia Catholic Church in

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'' Montecito Journal'', September 28, 2006 Additionally, he helped redesign the

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after the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake. He also designed the

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of the Calvary Cemetery in

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. Together with

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, he designed Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in

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in the late 1930s. As an architectural historian, he wrote about the

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. The original publication by Ross Montgomery related to the Awatovi Expedition of the late 1930s was included in Volume 36 of ''Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Papers''.Montgomery, Ross Gordon. 1949. Franciscan Awatovi; the excavation and conjectural reconstruction of a 17th-century Spanish mission establishment at a Hopi Indian town in northeastern Arizona. Cambridge, Mass: The Museum.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Montgomery, Ross Architects from Los Angeles 1888 births 1969 deaths Artists from Toledo, Ohio