{{Short description|American architect and photographer (1893–1971}} {{Infobox person | name = Benjamin Bean Horner | other_names = B. B. Horner | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1893 | birth_place = Michigan | death_date = {{death date and age|1971|5|21|1893}} | death_place = | spouse = | children = 3 | alma_mater = Purdue University | occupation = Architect, photographer }}
'''Benjamin Bean Horner''' (1893–1971), also known as '''B. B. Horner''', sometimes misspelled '''B. B. Homer''',<ref name=nrhp>{{Cite web |title=Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/236d3254-47ee-4b31-9045-c2999cc465f2/ |publisher=United States Department of the Interior – National Park Service |date=April 4, 1985 |language=en-US}}</ref> was an American architect who practiced primarily in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. He also took extensive photographs of architecture in California and England.
==Biography== {{One source section|date=December 2024}} Benjamin Bean Horner was born in Michigan in 1893 to William C. Horner, a furniture drafter, and his wife Emily, both of whom were from England. Benjamin and his family lived in Indiana during his teenage years, where he graduated from Purdue University and was a member of Tau Beta Pi. He also served in World War I.<ref name=OAC>{{cite web |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt10003483/admin/ |title=Horner Architectural Photography Collection |publisher=California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo |website=Online Archive of California|accessdate=December 9, 2024}}</ref><ref name=GTTHA>{{cite web |title=Guide to the Horner Architectural Photography Collection, c. 1920s |url=https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=lib_spc |page=6 |publisher=California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo |date=2008}}</ref>
By 1920, Benjamin was single and living in Los Angeles, California, with his occupation listed as technical engineer. Benjamin sailed from New York to England with his first wife Adelaide in 1926, where he photographed many historic buildings, manor houses, and villages. Benjamin also traveled throughout California in the 1920s, where he photographed adobe structures built during the area's Spanish and Mexican periods.<ref name=OAC/><ref name=GTTHA/>
By 1930, Benjamin's occupation had changed to civil engineer and he was still married to his first wife Adelaide. Benjamin married to his second wife, Esther Ruth Vanrossum, in the 1930s. Esther and Benjamin lived in Santa Barbara until 1948, when they moved to Ojai.<ref name=OAC/><ref name=GTTHA/> They had three children together, William (born in 1932) and twins Peter and Benjamin (born in 1935).<ref name=william_obit>{{cite news |title=William Horner Obituary |url=https://www.ocregister.com/obituaries/william-horner-huntington-beach-ca/ |newspaper=Orange County Register |date=November 1, 2022}}</ref>
Benjamin worked for Douglas Aircraft in the early 1950s<ref name=william_obit/> and died while traveling abroad in 1971.<ref name=OAC/><ref name=GTTHA/>
==List of works== * Residences at 6627 Emmett Terrace, 6658 Emmett Terrace, and 6760 Milner Road (1922), Whitley Heights Historic District contributing properties<ref name=WHHD>{{Cite web |title=California SP Whitley Heights Historic District |url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859621 |publisher=United States Department of the Interior – National Park Service |date=July 20, 1982 |language=en-US}}</ref> * Outpost Building (1927),<ref name=images>{{cite book |title=Images of America – Hollywood 1940-2008 |first=Marc |last=Wanamaker |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hollywood_1940_2008/Cp7aLU53N54C |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |date=2009}}</ref> Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District contributing property<ref name=nrhp/> * Creque Building enlargement (1931<ref name=lapl>{{Cite web |title=Hollywood west from Cahuenga |url=https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/38493 |publisher=Los Angeles Public Library |accessdate=July 3, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> or 1934<ref>{{Cite web |title=Early Views of Hollywood (1850–1920) |url=https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Hollywood_(1850-1920)_Page_2.html |page=2 |publisher=Water and Power Associates |accessdate=July 3, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref>), Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District contributing property<ref name=nrhp/> * Croyden House, Montecito, California<ref name=GTTHA/>
==See also== {{Portal|Architecture|Biography|California}} * List of American architects * List of people from Los Angeles
==External links== * [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt10003483/admin/ Horner's photography collection]
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