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Carleton Monroe Winslow (December 27, 1876 – 1946), also known as Carleton Winslow Sr., was an American architect, and key proponent of

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in Southern California in the early 20th century.

Biography

Winslow was born December 27, 1876, in Damariscotta, Maine, studied at the

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and at the

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, and joined the office of Bertram Goodhue in time for the planning of the 1915 San Diego Panama–California Exposition. Winslow is the one credited for choosing the Spanish Colonial style for that project, a choice with a vernacular regional precedent. He moved to

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in 1917, where he completed the

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after Goodhue's death in 1924 and also pursued his own commissions, including a number of Episcopal churches. With

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, he wrote ''The architecture and the gardens of the San Diego Exposition''. His son, Carleton Winslow, Jr. (1919 – 1983), was also an architect, specializing in churches in Southern California, as well as an architectural history professor and author.

Work

* St. James Episcopal Church, South Pasadena, as associate of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, 1907 * All Saints' Episcopal Church, San Diego, 1913, with

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* Official seal of the city of

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, 1914 * multiple buildings at the Panama–California Exposition, 1915, in collaboration with Bertram Goodhue; solely credited for certain structures including the Botanical Building * multiple buildings at the Bishop's School (1916 Bishops Chapel, 1930 Bishops Chapel Tower, 1930 second story and dome of Bentham Hall, 1934 Wheeler Bailey Library), some with architectural sculpture,

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* Casa Dorinda, private mansion for Henry W.H. Bliss and wife Anna Dorinda Blaksley,

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, 1916 * Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, 1916, with Floyd E. Brewster * studio for painter Adolfo Müller-Ury, 3400 Monterey Road, San Marino, California, 1923 (finished late 1924) *

, completing the project after Bertram Goodhue's death in 1924 * Santa Barbara Public Library, 1924 *

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, with Dwight Gibbs, Mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles, 1926 (razed) * First Baptist Church, Pasadena, with Frederick Kennedy, 1926 * Bel-Air Country Club, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, 1926 * design of 18 stained glass windows for the passenger liner ''City of Honolulu'', 1927 * Ojai Library, part of the Ventura County Library System, Ojai, California, 1928 * St. Mary of the Angels Church, Hollywood, 1930 * St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 260 East Alvarado,

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, 1931 * St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Glendale, California, Winslow's last design and completed by Louis A. Thomas, 1948An architectural guidebook to Los Ángeles By David Gebhard, Robert Winter page 335

References

* Andree, Herb, and Noel Young. ''Santa Barbara Architecture: from Spanish Colonial to Modern''. Second edition. With photographs by Wayne McCall and an introduction by David Gebhard. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1980.

Notes

External links

Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD): Carleton Winslow
— ''biography and list of works''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Winslow, Carleton Architects from Los Angeles School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts Architects from Maine 1876 births 1946 deaths People from Damariscotta, Maine Balboa Park (San Diego) Spanish Colonial Revival architects