[And an unresolved mystery.]

Proposed MonumentDescription

Pictorial

Photographic & Cartographic Statement Of Significance

William James DoddPlaya del Rey Residence

Thomas Lee McMahon CHC-2019-3111-HCM

On Christmas Day 1912 Dodd departed the midwest to continue his profession in the greater Los Angeles area, a period lasting until his death there in June 1930. In Los Angeles, Dodd partnered with William Richards (1871–1945), his longest professional partnership.

From 1893, and to the end of his life, Dodd was a mentor to talented younger designers who were new to the profession, designers with now well-known names like Lloyd Wright Jr., Julia Morgan, and J. M. Haenke architects for William Randolph Hearst’s L.A. Herald-Examiner Building.

WJ Dodd Extant Work - Los Angeles

• The Uplifters Clubhouse – LA HCM No. 663

• Los Tiempos - Chandler Estate – LA HCM No. 863

• Los Angeles Herald Examiner Bldg - LA HCM No. 178

• Dodd and Richards’ “Architects Building” Bunker Hill

• Chaplin House & Dodd Last (?) Residence - 1975 DeMille Dr.

• Cecil B. De Mille’s “Roland Coate House”

• The DeMille House 2000 DeMille Drive

• W.J. Dodd (First) Residence (ca 1915) 2010 DeMille Dr.

• Coulter Dry Goods Co. Store (1916–17), 500 W. 7th St.

• Huntsberger-Mennell Bldg. (1917), 412 W. 7th St., LA

• Henning Bldg. (1917), 518 W. 7th St. Los Angeles

• Ville de Paris Bldg. (1917), 420 W. 7th St. Los Angeles

• H. L. Rivers House (1918), a.k.a. "Los Rios Rancho“

• Dodd (2nd) then Durbin Residence (ca 1922) 5226 Linwood

• Ponet Company Bldg. (1918–19) 12th & Hope, LA

• Heron Building (1919–20), originally the State Building

• Brock & Co. Building (1921), 515 W. 7th St. Los Angeles

• Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building, now Pacific Cntr.

• Kenneth Preuss Residence (1921–22), 5235 Linwood

• Good Samaritan Physicians Bldg. (1923), 6th and Lucas, LA

• Apartment Bldg. (1923) at 3105 W. 6th, now Borden Retail

• Pasadena Medical Bldg. (1924) a.k.a. Professional Bldg.

• William & Nelia Mead Residence (1924), now Willows Inn

• San Gabriel Mission Auditorium, Greater Los Angeles.

• Jacob Riis Boys Vocational School; Bethune Jr High

• McLeod Bethune Jr High, 69th Broadway and Main

• House (1930) 8252 Rees Ave., Playa del Rey Los Angeles

• Dodd Playa del Rey Residence (1930) 8207 Delgany Ave

Not previously documented

LA Times March 9th, 1930

(Photo – 7 months after his death.)

200 N. Spring Street

Photo Circa 1958 - Courtesy of Sharon Miller, Granddaughter Ivan Miller

Circa 1957

2018

2018

“Uplifters Clubhouse”LA Historic-Cultural Monument No. 663

“Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building”LA Historic-Cultural Monument No. 178

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