{{Short description|American architectural partnership}} thumb|Davis siblings. Davis & Davis are Pierpont Davis, standing in the center of the photograph, and Walter S. Davis, seated with a brother to his right and their sister to his left '''Davis & Davis''' was an architecture firm in Los Angeles, California made up of brothers F. Pierpont and Walter S. Davis.
==Partners== ===Francis Pierpont Davis=== {{Infobox architect |name = Francis Pierpont Davis |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1884|12|27}} |birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland |death_date = {{death date and age|1953|7|5|1884|12|27}} |death_place = Los Angeles, California |practice = Davis & Davis (1916-1942+) |education = Baltimore City College<br>Maryland Institute of Design, Engineering, and Mathematics }} {{MedalBox}} {{MedalSport|Men's sailing}} {{MedalCountry|the {{USA}}}} {{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }} {{MedalGold | 1932 Los Angeles | 8 metre class }} {{MedalBottom}} Francis Pierpont Davis, who went by Pierpont Davis, was born in 1884 in Baltimore, Maryland to Frank Earlougher Davis, an architect, and Annie Legate Swindell. He was elder to three brothers, William, Walter, and Henry, and one sister, Dorothy. The family also had one servant.<ref name=pcad_pierpont>{{Cite web |title=Francis Pierpont Davis (Architect) |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/643/ |publisher=University of Washington |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=December 3, 2024 |first=Alan |last=Michelson |language=en-US}}</ref>
Pierpont attended Baltimore City College for one year and the Maryland Institute of Design, Engineering, and Mathematics for three.<ref name=hpla>{{Cite web |title=Person or Group - F. Pierpont Davis & Walter S. Davis |url=https://hpla.lacity.org/report/6af689ce-5187-4931-864a-36c88c89fff5 |publisher=City of Los Angeles |accessdate=December 3, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1907, he moved to Los Angeles and in 1909, he married Gertrude Alberta Churchill in Santa Monica, California. They had two kids together, and also lived with a nurse and a cook.<ref name=pcad_pierpont/> Pierpont also served in World War I.<ref name=stjohnepiscopal>{{Cite web |title=St. John's Episcopal Church |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/37800229-0788-48ff-b3fd-37bd817ea9c4 |publisher=National Park Service |date=April 6, 2000|language=en-US}}</ref>
From 1924 to 1925, Pierpont and Gertrude traveled across Europe and North Africa, with destinations that included the British Isles, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, and Algeria.<ref name=pcad_pierpont/> Pierpont also served on the 1932 Olympics international jury and competed in eight-meter class sailing, where he won gold as the oldest member of brother-in-law Owen Churchill's boat, the ''Angelita''. Pierpont sailed his own ship, the ''Santa Maria'', in tryouts and placed second to Churchill's first.<ref name=hpla/><ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Pierpont Davis |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/pierpont-davis-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121218152109/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/pierpont-davis-1.html |archive-date=December 18, 2012}}</ref>
Pierpont was a member of the Allied Architects of Los Angeles<ref name=elgreco>{{Cite web |title=El Greco Apartments |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/b5575929-89fe-4f7d-b0d6-49c2d4211fa9 |publisher=National Park Service |date=September 19, 1988|language=en-US}}</ref> and he also worked as Assistant to the Chief Architect on the Pentagon Project in Washington, D.C. in 1941. He also served as president of the Los Angeles City Art Commission<ref name=pcad_pierpont/> and was a founding director of the South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club in 1933.<ref>{{cite document | title = Articles of Incorporation | publisher = California Secretary of State | date = August 7, 1934 | type = Filing | id = 155029 | quote = South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club }}</ref>
Pierpont stool 5 foot 11.5 inches tall, had brown eyes and black hair, and had a scar over his left eye. He died in Los Angeles in 1953.<ref name=pcad_pierpont/>
===Walter Swindell Davis === {{Infobox architect |name = Walter Swindell Davis |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1887|11|7}} |birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland |death_date = {{death date and age|1973|9|19|1887|11|7}} |death_place = Los Angeles County California |practice = Davis & Davis (1916-1942+) |education = Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS 1910, MS 1911 }}
Walter Swindell Davis was born in 1887 in Baltimore, Maryland to Frank Earlougher Davis, an architect, and Annie Legate Swindell. He was the middle child of four brothers, Emmitt, Pierpont, Henry, and himself, and one sister, Dorothy. The family also had one servant.<ref name=pcad_pierpont/><ref name=pcad_walter>{{Cite web |title=Walter Swindell Davis (Architect) |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/644/ |publisher=University of Washington |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=December 3, 2024 |first=Alan |last=Michelson |language=en-US}}</ref>
Walter attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for both his bachelor's and master's degrees, the formor of which he obtained in 1910 and the latter in 1911.<ref name=hpla/> By 1916, he had moved to Los Angeles,<ref name=pcad_pierpont/> and he also served in World War I.<ref name=stjohnepiscopal/>
Walter died in 1973. His last known residence was in Long Beach, California.<ref name=pcad_walter/>
===Partnership=== Pierpont and Walter partnered in Los Angeles in 1916. They had an office in the Exchange Building in 1918 and one on 6th Street from at least 1937 to 1942.<ref name=pcad_pierpont/><ref name=pcad_walter/>
Employees/associates of theirs include Olive Chadeayne, George Julius Lind, and Henry Franklin Withey.<ref name=pcad_davisanddavis>{{Cite web |title=Davis and Davis, Architects (Partnership) |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/331/ |publisher=University of Washington |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=December 3, 2024 |first=Alan |last=Michelson |language=en-US}}</ref>
====Henry Franklin Withey==== {{Infobox architect |name = Henry Franklin Withey |image = |image_size = (if image is smaller than 250px) |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1880|2|4}} |birth_place = Lynn, Massachusetts |death_date = {{death date and age|1969|10|17|1880|2|4}} |death_place = |practice = |education = }}
Henry Franklin Withey was born in 1880 in Lynn, Massachusetts to John F. Withey, a printer, farmer, and laborer, and Martha Peckham Withey. Henry was the eldest of one brother and two sisters.<ref name=pcad_henry>{{Cite web |title=Henry Franklin Withey (Architect) |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/2023/ |publisher=University of Washington |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=December 3, 2024 |first=Alan |last=Michelson |language=en-US}}</ref>
Henry and his family moved to Los Angeles sometime between 1900 and 1910. By 1920, Henry was married to Elsie Rathburn, an immigrant who came to the United States in 1884 and was naturalized in 1900. Elsie worked as an assistant in Henry's office and the two wrote the Biographical Dictionary of American Architects together.<ref name=pcad_henry/>
Professionally, Henry's association with Davises began {{circa|1911}}, when he and Pierpont won first place in a competition to build Santa Ana High School. Henry and the Davises shared offices from {{circa|1918}} to 1922, and while they worked on many projects together during their association, Henry was never officially a partner.<ref name=stjohnepiscopal/><ref name=pcad_henry/>
Henry was the vice president of the Los Angeles Architectural Club in 1915.<ref name=pcad_henry/> He also worked with Clifford Balch.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/1540/ |title=Withey and Balch, Architects (Partnership) |first=Alan |last=Michelson |access-date=July 8, 2025 |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |publisher=University of Washington}}</ref>
Henry was 5 feet 10.5 inches tall and had blue eyes and brown hair. He died in 1969.<ref name=pcad_henry/>
== Selected works == [[File:La Venta Ceremony Lawn.jpg|thumb|La Venta Inn]]
===Davis and Davis=== * 2027 N Serrano Avenue (1921), contributor to the Oxford-Serrano-Hobart Residential Historic District<ref>{{cite web|title=Historic Resource - 2027 N Serrano Ave |publisher=City of Los Angeles|url=https://hpla.lacity.org/report/673eca89-58ed-4b9f-a42d-3d707d6324cc|date=November 1, 2015}}</ref> * H. M. Easton & Morris Mumper Residence (1921), contributor to the Oxford-Serrano-Hobart Residential Historic District<ref>{{cite web|title=Historic Resource - H. M. Easton & Morris Mumper Residence 2021 N Serrano Ave |publisher=City of Los Angeles|url=https://hpla.lacity.org/report/2f7247f1-e2ff-4232-b9cb-7926543b5e8e|date=November 1, 2015}}</ref> * Castelar Street School (1922)<ref name=stjohnepiscopal/> * La Venta Inn (1923)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://usmodernist.org/AECA/AECA-1930-01-03.pdf |title=Community Association Control in Unincorporated Territory |publisher=The Architect and Engineer |via=usmodernist.org |first=JC |last=Low |date=January 1930}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-23-me-171-story.html |title=La Venta Inn Nominated as Historic Site by County |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=Daryl |last=Kelley |date=February 23, 1989}}</ref> * St. John's Episcopal Church (1923),<ref name=hpla/> LAHCM #47<ref name=LAHCML>{{Cite web |title=Historical Cultural Monuments List |url=https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/24f6fce7-f73d-4bca-87bc-c77ed3fc5d4f/Historical_Cultural_Monuments_List.pdf |publisher=City of Los Angeles |access-date=October 24, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> * Conant House (1924)<ref>{{cite web|title=Historic Resource - Conant House - 2810 N Beachwood Dr |publisher=City of Los Angeles|url=https://hpla.lacity.org/report/d2ebd6b1-f801-4793-85fe-96c379422b26|date=September 7, 2011}}</ref> * Anna Desmond Residence (1925)<ref name=stjohnepiscopal/> [[File:St. John's Episcopal Church, Los Angeles.JPG|thumb|St. John’s Cathedral]] * St. John’s Cathedral (1925), LAHCM #516,<ref name=LAHCML/> NRHP #00000425<ref>{{cite web|title=St. John's Episcopal Church|publisher= National Park Service |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/00000425|date=May 5, 2000}}</ref> * Roman Gardens (1926),<ref name=hpla/> LAHCM #397<ref name=LAHCML/> * Los Angeles Public Library Echo Park Branch #2 (1927-1928)<ref name=pcad_davisanddavis/> * Villa d'Este Apartments (1928)<ref name=stjohnepiscopal/> [[File:El Greco Apartments, Los Angeles.JPG|thumb|El Greco Apartments]] * El Greco Apartments (1929), LAHCM #231,<ref name=LAHCML/> NRHP #88002017<ref>{{cite web|title=El Greco Apartments|publisher=National Park Service|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/88002017|date=September 19, 1988}}</ref> * Huntington Palisades Spec House (1929)<ref>{{cite web|title=Historic Resource - Huntington Palisades Spec House 15045 W Altata Dr|publisher=City of Los Angeles|url=https://hpla.lacity.org/report/c092aa12-f3ea-4166-9f61-e09cb2892a6d|date=July 9, 2013}}</ref> * Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority House, University of California Los Angeles (1930), contributor to the UCLA Sorority Row Historic District<ref>{{cite web|title=Historic District - UCLA Sorority Row Historic District |publisher=City of Los Angeles|url=https://hpla.lacity.org/report/4f6a605e-3551-4503-b842-b62a3490a4a0|date=December 8, 2014}}</ref>
====With Withey==== * Villa Capistrano/Julian Eltinge House (1918)<ref name=pcad_pierpontwalterhenry>{{Cite web |title=Davis, Davis and Withey, Associated Architects (Association) |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/5853/ |publisher=University of Washington |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=December 3, 2024 |first=Alan |last=Michelson |language=en-US}}</ref> [[File:Sun Drug Company Building-1.jpg|thumb|Swelldom Building]] * Swelldom Building (1920),<ref name=HSS>{{cite web|title=GC 1323 - Historic Sites Surveys |first=Tom|last=Sitton|publisher=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County|url=https://nhm.org/sites/default/files/2019-05/gc_1323_historic_sites_surveys.pdf|date=2008}}</ref> contributing property in the NRHP-listed Broadway Theater and Commercial District<ref>{{cite web|title=California SP Broadway Theater and Commercial District|publisher=National Park Service|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858983|date=May 9, 1979}}</ref>
===Pierpont Davis=== * F. Pierpont Davis House (1921)<ref>{{cite web|title=Sleeping Beauty|publisher=Architectural Digest|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/davis-slideshow-022005|date=January 31, 2005|first=Joseph |last=Giovannini}}</ref> * Pierson Residence (1925),<ref>{{cite web|title=Pierson Residence|publisher=City of Los Angeles |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=230225|date=November 13, 1996}}</ref> LAHCM #630<ref name=LAHCML/> * The Pentagon (1941-1942),<ref name=hpla/> NRHP #89000932<ref>{{cite web|title=Pentagon Office Building Complex|publisher=National Park Service|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/89000932|date=July 27, 1989}}</ref>
====With Withey==== * Artesia Grammar School (1911)<ref name=pcad_pierponthenry>{{Cite web |title=Withey and Davis, Associated Architects (Association) |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/1543/ |publisher=University of Washington |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=December 3, 2024 |first=Alan |last=Michelson |language=en-US}}</ref> * Farmers and Merchants Bank of Santa Paula branch (1911-1912) and headquarters (1913)<ref name=pcad_pierponthenry/>
====As part of the Allied Architects of Los Angeles==== * Los Angeles Hall of Justice (1925)<ref name=elgreco/> * Bob Hope Patriotic Hall (1926)<ref name=elgreco/> * Los Angeles General Medical Center (1928)<ref name=elgreco/> * Hollywood Bowl Music Shell (1929)<ref name=elgreco/>
===Walter S. Davis=== * Ramona Gardens (with others) (1940)<ref name=elgreco/> * Aliso Village (with others) (1942),<ref name=elgreco/> demolished in 1999 * 6252 Via Canada (1960)<ref>{{cite web|title=Walter Davis-Designed "Hearst Castle" of Rancho Palos Verdes|publisher=Curbed Los Angeles|url=https://la.curbed.com/2013/4/11/10254246/walter-davisdesigned-hearst-castle-of-rancho-palos-verdes-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924120132/https://la.curbed.com/2013/4/11/10254246/walter-davisdesigned-hearst-castle-of-rancho-palos-verdes-1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |date=April 11, 2013|first=Pauline|last=O'Connor}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Architecture|Biography|California}} * List of American architects * List of people from Los Angeles
== References == {{Reflist}}
Category:Defunct architecture firms based in California Category:Companies established in 1916 Category:Architects from Los Angeles