Southern California
Architecture: Occidental College Campus
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Mary Norton Clapp Library from north-west
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The
construction and development of the Occidental College
Campus and the Myron Hunt designed buildings, as well as the
neighborhood surrounding the campus, is a documented through
a collection of photographs produced by a variety of
photographers over the course of Occidental's history.
Including images intended for college publications and
historical documentation, as well as photographs taken by
students and donated to the college, the collection contains
images of the construction, use, modification, renovation,
and reuse of campus buildings and the maturing of the
landscaping. The collection is housed in the photograph
collection of Occidental College Library's Special
Collections.
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Myron Hunt
A major
figure in the history of Southern California architecture,
Myron Hunt established the master plan for the Occidental
College campus and was responsible for the design of all
campus buildings built between 1912 and 1940. Located in
Eagle Rock, California, a neighborhood in northwestern Los
Angeles, the campus was designed along a Beaux-Arts
cross-axial plan with the majority of the buildings designed
in a Mediterranean Revival style.
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Groundbreaking for the Mary Norton Clapp Library 1924 -
From left to right: Myron Hunt, Occidental President Remsen
D. Bird and Sarah Lindsey |
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About this Collection
This project, begun in 1998, was
originally made possibly by the generous support of a Getty
Grant Program, the Electronic Cataloguing Initiative
Implementation Grant. Architectural images were made
available by a gift to Occidental College by Dr. Robert
Winter.
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