Richard Douglas King was born on December 31, 1879 in
Jackson, Tennessee. His father was a
miller and his mother a music teacher. King worked as a hardware store clerk in
Helena, Arkansas , and by 1909, he was working as a
draftsman in
Sacramento for the
state of California. In 1911, he moved to
Los Angeles, where first worked as a project manager at
Morgan, Walls & Morgan. He partnered with Ellis Wing and Edward C. Taylor the following year and the partnership ended in 1914. King worked as a solo practitioner the rest of his career. and he achieved international recognition for
Villa Riviera, completed in 1929. He also built his own home in
Hermosa Beach in 1917; ==List of works==