{{Short description|American architect}} {{Infobox person | name =Sumner Spaulding | image = Sumner M. Spaulding 1926 portrait photo.jpg | caption = Spaulding in 1926 | birth_name = | birth_date =June 14, 1892 | birth_place = Ionia, Michigan, U.S. | death_date =May 10, 1952 | death_place = Los Angeles County, California, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | known_for = | education =Massachusetts Institute of Technology | employer = | occupation =Architect | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = }} '''Sumner Spaulding''' (1892–1952) was an American architect and city planner. He is best known for designing the Harold Lloyd Estate, {{aka}} Greenacres, in Beverly Hills, California, the Catalina Casino in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, California, and the Malaga Cove Plaza in Palos Verdes Estates, California. thumb|right|Harold Lloyd Estate, a.k.a. Greenacres, in Beverly Hills, California. [[File:"Beverly Hillbillies" mansion (2092398372).jpg|thumb|Chartwell Mansion in 1988]] thumb|right|Catalina Casino in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California. thumb|right|Malaga Cove Plaza in Palos Verdes Estates, California.
==Early life== Sumner Spaulding was born on June 14, 1892, in Ionia, Michigan.<ref name="database">[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/617/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Sumner Spaulding]</ref><ref name="arts">[http://www.artsandarchitecture.com/case.houses/architects.html Arts & Architecture]</ref> He attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1911 to 1913, and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1916.<ref name="arts"/> He also studied in Mexico and Europe.<ref name="arts"/>
==Career== Spaulding became an architect renowned in California. From 1928 to 1929, he designed the Lucien E. Frary Dining Hall on the campus of Pomona College in Claremont, California.<ref name="databasespauldingarchitect">[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/partners/559/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Spaulding, Sumner Architect]</ref><ref>[http://www.pomona.edu/about/pomoniana/prometheus.aspx Pomona College: Prometheus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804231844/http://www.pomona.edu/about/pomoniana/prometheus.aspx |date=2014-08-04 }}</ref><ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/13995/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Pomona College, Frary, Lucien E., Dining Hall, Claremont, CA]</ref> He designed a building at 520 Midvale Avenue in Westwood, Los Angeles.<ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/2001/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: 520 Midvale Avenue Apartments, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA]</ref>
Additionally, Spaulding teamed up with other architects for many buildings and houses. With Walter I. Webber, he designed the Catalina Casino in Avalon on Catalina Island, built 1928−1929.<ref name="databasewebbspaulding">[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/partners/1653/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Webber and Spaulding, Architects]</ref><ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1021/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Avalon Casino, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, CA]</ref><ref>Naylor, David, American Picture Palaces The Architecture of Fantasy, 219, 1981.</ref> They also designed the Harold Lloyd Estate 'Greenacres', located at 1040 Angelo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, now a California Historical Landmark.<ref name="databasewebbspaulding"/><ref>"Mr. Harold Lloyd's Italian Villa in Beverly Hills", ''California Arts and Architecture'', 38: 21-29, 12/1930.</ref> He designed Lloyd's beach house in Santa Monica, California.<ref name="databasewebbspaulding"/><ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/13996/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Lloyd, Harold, Beach House, Santa Monica, CA]</ref><ref>"Harold Lloyd Beach House plans", ''California Arts and Architecture'', 24, 06/1932.</ref>
In partnership with William Field Staunton, Jr. and Walter I. Webber, they designed the Malaga Cove Plaza, a shopping center in the community of Palos Verdes Estates from 1922 to 1924.<ref name="databasewebbstauntonspaulding">[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/partners/428/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Webber, Staunton and Spaulding, Architects]</ref><ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1187/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Malaga Cove Plaza, Palos Verdes Estates, CA]</ref> They designed the fraternity house of Phi Kappa Sigma located at 10938 Strathmore Drive off the campus of UCLA in Westwood, Los Angeles in 1929.<ref name="databasewebbstauntonspaulding"/><ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1188/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA]</ref><ref>"Colleges Plan New Buildings", ''The Los Angeles Times'', A16, 9/7/1928</ref> From 1928 to 1930, they designed the Eli P. Clark Dormitory on the campus of Pomona College.<ref name="databasespauldingarchitect"/><ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/2287/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Pomona College, Clark, Eli P., Dormitory #1, Claremont, CA]</ref>
In 1933, Spaulding designed 'Chartwell', built in the style of a French chateau for engineer Lynn Atkinson, who commissioned the property but never lived there. The house, set in gardens designed by Henri Samuel, was later owned by Arnold Kirkeby and Jerry Perenchio. It was used as the filming location for ''The Beverley Hillbillies'' and Jerry Lewis's ''Cinderfella''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Miller |first1=Julie |title=The Fascinating Story Behind America's Most Expensive Home |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/08/most-expensive-home-in-america |magazine=Vanity Fair|date=9 August 2017 }}</ref>
In partnership with Clarence Gordon DeSwarte and John Leon Rex, they designed the Leibig Guest House and Farmer's Cottage in Encino, California, which won an Honor Award from the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in January 1947.<ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/7207/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Leibig, Rudolph, Guest House and Farmer's Cottage, Encino, Los Angeles, CA]</ref><ref>"Southern California Chapter's Honor Awards", ''Journal of the American Institute of Architects'', 7: 2, 74–77, 93, 02/1947.</ref> They designed the Behrendt House in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, which won an Honor Award from the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in January 1947.<ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/7206/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Behrendt, George, House, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA]</ref><ref>"Southern California Chapter's Honor Awards", ''Journal of the American Institute of Architects'', 7: 2, 74–79, 02/1947.</ref> In 1946, they designed a shop for the Barrett Textile Corporation in Los Angeles.<ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/7230/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Barret Textile Corporation Shop, Los Angeles, CA]</ref><ref>"A Shop for Barret Textile Corporation", Arts and Architecture, 64: 1, 31–33, 01/1947.</ref> Additionally, they designed the Red Cross chapter house in Los Angeles.<ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/7218/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Red Cross Chapter House, Los Angeles, CA]</ref>
In 1945 Spaulding designed, and together with John Rex redesigned, the Midcentury modern style Case Study House No. 2, that was completed in 1947 in the Chapman Woods neighborhood of Pasadena.<ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1189/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Case Study House #02, Pasadena, CA]</ref><ref>[http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Case_Study_House_nº2 WikiArquitectura, Architecture of the World: Case Study House nº2]</ref><ref>"Modern California Houses", Architectural Record, 133: 1, 62B, 01/1963</ref><ref>"The Editor's Asides", ''Journal of the American Institute of Architects'', VIII: 4, 190, 10/1947.</ref> They also designed the Westchester High School located at 6550 West 80th Street in Westchester, Los Angeles in 1952.<ref>[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/1190/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Westchester High School #1, Westchester, Los Angeles, CA]</ref>
Spaulding taught architecture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and at Scripps College in Claremont.<ref name="arts"/>
==Death== Sumner Spaulding died at age 59 on 10 May 1952 in Los Angeles County, and is buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.<ref name="database"/>
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