Morgan, Walls & Clements

Morgan, Walls & Clements earliest precursor, Kysor & Hennessy, consisted of partners Ezra F. Kysor and John F. Hennessy, then in 1880, Hennessy left and the firm's draftsman Octavius Morgan was promoted to partner, creating Kysor & Morgan. John A. Walls joined in 1886 to create Kysor, Morgan and Walls, and Kysor retired in 1890, resulting in Morgan and Walls. Around 1910, Morgan's son O.W. Morgan was promoted, creating Morgan, Walls and Morgan, then the elder Morgan retired and designer Stiles O. Clements was promoted, resulting in Morgan, Walls and Clements. Morgan, Walls and Clements hit its stride with a series of theaters and commercial projects around MacArthur Park. Clements often worked in Spanish Colonial revival and Mayan revival styles, but their major project was the black Art Deco Richfield Tower, a commanding presence in downtown from its 1928 completion to its 1969 destruction. Walls did not live to see the completion of the building, as he had died in 1922. Clements left the firm in 1937 to start his own practice, Stiles O. Clements & Associates, where he remained until his retirement in 1965. ==Works==

National Register of Historic Places • Adamson House, Malibu, California, 1930 • Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, 1931 • Professional Building, Phoenix, Arizona, 1932 Broadway Theater and Commercial District • Bumiller Building, 1906 • Eshman Building, 1909 Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District , considered "one of the crowning achievements of Streamline Moderne" • El Capitan Theatre, 1926 • Hallmark Building, 1931 remodel • El Capitan Theatre, Los Angeles, 1926 • Belasco Theater, 1926 • Mayan Theater, 1927 • Chapman Plaza, 3400 Block W. 6th St., 1929 • Highland Towers Apartments • Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre, 1931 Long Beach City Landmarks • Famous Department Store, 1928-9 Other Works Los Angeles in 1900 • Bullard Block, housing The Hub department store, 154-160 N. Main St., 1895 (demolished 1925) • Tally's Electric Theater, 1902 • Parmelee-Dohrmann Building, 436–444 S. Broadway, 1906 (demolished) • Van Nuys Apartments, 1913 • Haas Building, S. Broadway, 1915 • Hollywood Post Office, Hollywood and Vine, 1925 (demolished) • Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Building, 1926 • Music Box Theater, 1926 • Ninth & Hill Building, 1926 • Downtown Shopping News, Printing & Distribution Building, 1927 • Richfield Tower, 1929 (demolished) • Security First National Bank, 1929 • 900 N. La Brea Ave, 1930 (demolished) • Leimert Theatre, 1931 • Dominguez-Wilshire Building (5410 Wilshire Boulevard), 1931 • Brooks Clothing Co. (after 1947: Harris & Frank, Miracle Mile, 5450–4 Wilshire Boulevard at Cochran, 1936. Elsewhere in southern California • Santa Clara Roman Catholic Church, Oxnard, 1903 • First National Bank, Orange, 1928 • Adams Square Building (1100 E. Chevy Chase Dr), Glendale, 1928 • Samson Tire and Rubber Factory (now Citadel Outlets), Commerce, 1929-30. == References ==