Stiles Oliver Clements (March 2, 1883 – January 15, 1966) was an architect practicing in Los Angeles and
Southern California
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.
History
Clements trained at the
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...
, Paris. He was a key figure in the 1920s
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
architectural movement, and 1930s
Streamline Moderne style, in Los Angeles. He also designed in
historicist
Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying their history, that is, by studying the process by which they came about. The term is widely u ...
motifs and
revivalism
Revivalism may refer to:
* Christian revival, increased spiritual interest or renewal in the life of a church congregation or society, with a local, national or global effect
* Revivalism (architecture), the use of visual styles that consciously ...
styles, such as the
Adamson House
The Adamson House and its associated land, which was known as Vaquero Hill in the 19th century, is a historic house and gardens in Malibu, California. The residence and estate is on the coast, within Malibu Lagoon State Beach park.
It has bee ...
in the
Spanish Colonial Revival
The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( es, Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
In the ...
and
Moorish Revival style
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th centur ...
s.
Stiles O. Clements was a partner with Octavius Morgan and John Walls in the firm of
Morgan, Walls & Clements
Morgan, Walls & Clements was an architectural firm based in Los Angeles, California and responsible for many of the city's landmarks, dating back to the late 19th century. Originally Morgan and Walls, with principals Octavius Morgan and John A. ...
, known for his exuberant themed designs that included the
Mayan Theater and
Wiltern Theatre
The Pellissier Building and adjoining Wiltern Theatre is a 12-story, Art Deco landmark at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The entire complex is commonly referred to as the Wiltern Center. Clad in a ...
, and the famous Art Deco
Richfield Tower
Richfield Tower, also known as the Richfield Oil Company Building, was an office tower constructed between 1928 and 1929 and served as the headquarters of Richfield Oil in Los Angeles, California.
History
It was designed by Stiles O. Clements ...
. He also formed the firm of Stiles Clements & Associates.
Notable buildings
*1926 Masque Theatre Building —(Present day
Hayworth Theatre
The Hayworth Theatre is a theater and performing arts center at 2511 Wilshire Boulevard in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The facility houses 99-seat, 42-seat and 49-seat auditoriums and a 1,500 square-foot ballroom used f ...
+ La Fonda ) — 2509 Wilshire Boulevard
*1926
El Capitan Theater Building —
Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard is a major east–west street in Los Angeles, California. It begins in the east at Sunset Boulevard in the Los Feliz district and proceeds to the west as a major thoroughfare through Little Armenia and Thai Town, Hollywoo ...
,
Hollywood, California.
*1927:
Mayan Theater —
Downtown Los Angeles;
Mayan Revival architecture
Mayan Revival is a modern architectural style popular in the Americas during the 1920s and 1930s that drew inspiration from the architecture and iconography of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
History
Origins
Though the name of the s ...
.
*1927: McKinley Building — Los Angeles (demolished 2004).
*1920–1929: Chapman Market — Sixth Street,
Koreatown, Los Angeles
Koreatown ( ko, 코리아타운) is a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth Street and Irolo Street.
Koreans began immigrating in larger numbers in the 1960s and found housing in the Mid-Wilshire area. Many ope ...
.
*1929:
Adamson House
The Adamson House and its associated land, which was known as Vaquero Hill in the 19th century, is a historic house and gardens in Malibu, California. The residence and estate is on the coast, within Malibu Lagoon State Beach park.
It has bee ...
—
Malibu, California;
Spanish Colonial Revival
The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( es, Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
In the ...
and
Moorish Revival architecture.
*1929:
Richfield Tower
Richfield Tower, also known as the Richfield Oil Company Building, was an office tower constructed between 1928 and 1929 and served as the headquarters of Richfield Oil in Los Angeles, California.
History
It was designed by Stiles O. Clements ...
— Downtown Los Angeles,
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
(demolished 1969).
*1929: Samson Uniroyal Tire Factory (present day
Citadel Outlets
The Citadel Outlets are an outlet mall in the City of Commerce, California along the Santa Ana Freeway southeast of Downtown Los Angeles, which features the Exotic Revival architecture of a tire factory, whose partial remnants the complex occu ...
mall) —
City of Commerce, Southern California; designed in
Mesopotamian Revival style, inspired by the Assyrian
Dur-Sharrukin
Dur-Sharrukin ("Fortress of Sargon"; ar, دور شروكين, Syriac: ܕܘܪ ܫܪܘ ܘܟܢ), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of M ...
(Palace of Sargon II)
*1931: Dominguez-Wilshire Building — 5410
Wilshire Boulevard
Wilshire Boulevard is a prominent boulevard in the Los Angeles area of Southern California, extending from Ocean Avenue in the city of Santa Monica east to Grand Avenue in the Financial District of downtown Los Angeles. One of the principal ...
, Los Angeles, (
Morgan, Walls & Clements
Morgan, Walls & Clements was an architectural firm based in Los Angeles, California and responsible for many of the city's landmarks, dating back to the late 19th century. Originally Morgan and Walls, with principals Octavius Morgan and John A. ...
)
*1931:
Leimert Cinema —
Leimert Park
Leimert Park (; ) is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California.
Developed in the 1920s as a mainly residential community, it features Spanish Colonial Revival homes and tree-lined streets. The Life Magazine/Lei ...
, Los Angeles
*1931:
Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre — Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles; Art Deco style.
*1935:
Jefferson High School — South Los Angeles;
Streamline Moderne style.
*1936: KEHE/
KFI
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/KECA Radio Building — Los Angeles (demolished 2003)
*1938:
Coulter's
Coulter's was a department store that originated in Downtown Los Angeles and later moved to the Miracle Mile shopping district in that same city.
History
Coulter's was founded by B. F. Coulter, a minister and entrepreneur from Kentucky, wh ...
Department Store, Wilshire Branch —
Miracle Mile Miracle Mile may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, a district of Los Angeles
* Miracle Mile (Coral Gables), a shopping area in Coral Gables, Florida
* Miracle Mile (Manhasset), New York, a premium sh ...
, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles; moderne style (demolished 1980).
*1938:
Philharmonic Auditorium
Hazard's Pavilion was a large auditorium in Los Angeles, California, at the intersection of Fifth and Olive Streets. Showman George "Roundhouse" Lehman had planned to construct a large theatre center on the land he purchased at this location, bu ...
remodel of Clune's Auditorium for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra — Downtown Los Angeles (demolished 1980s).
*1939: "Swim Gym",
Beverly Hills High School
Beverly Hills High School (usually abbreviated as Beverly or as BHHS) is the only major public high school in Beverly Hills, California. The other public high school in Beverly Hills, Moreno High School, is a small alternative school located on B ...
—
Beverly Hills
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, California.
*1939: Facade of the refurbished
Blackstone Building (Los Angeles)
*1949:
Mullen & Bluett
Mullen & Bluett was a Los Angeles-based department store specializing in men's clothing.
Founding
It was founded by Andrew Mullen and W. C. Bluett in the 1880s, at the corner of First and Spring streets in Downtown Los Angeles. Arthur R. Mullen ...
Building —
Miracle Mile Miracle Mile may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, a district of Los Angeles
* Miracle Mile (Coral Gables), a shopping area in Coral Gables, Florida
* Miracle Mile (Manhasset), New York, a premium sh ...
, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles; moderne style (demolished 2006); (disputed, may have been designed by son Robert Clements, Sr.)
*1954: Occidental Savings Bank,
Valley Plaza
Valley Plaza was a shopping center in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, one of the first in the San Fernando Valley, opened in 1951. In the mid-1950s it claimed to be the largest shopping center on the West Coast of the United States and the third ...
, 12140
Victory Boulevard,
North Hollywood, Los Angeles
References
External links
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Artists from Los Angeles
American theatre architects
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Art Deco architects
Mediterranean Revival architects
Spanish Colonial Revival architects
Spanish Revival architects
Architects from Los Angeles
Architects from Maryland
1883 births
1966 deaths
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
20th-century American architects