Robert Brown Young
Robert Brown Young (April 1, 1854 – January 29, 1914) was a Canadian-born architect who designed buildings in California.
Born in
Los Angeles at that time was a thriving city of about 10,000 and there were only two other architects here. Within a short time, demands for plans and architectural drawings were coming in far faster than he could handle them, and he was obliged to give up his work in contracting entirely and confine his attention to architectural work. During this period of building "boom", he had 87 buildings under construction at one time.
He was the resident architect of the new
In 1880, Young married Mary C. Wilson of Denver. Two children were born to them, Frank Wilson Young and Mary Elizabeth Young Moore. The son joined his father in the family business, and after the father's death, continued the business under the firm's name of R. B. Young & Son. Young died at his home in Los Angeles[2] on January 29, 1914, after an illness of several months.[1]
Works
Los Angeles
- Apartment hotels: Seminole, Engstrum, Young, Westonia
- Barker Brothers
- Blackstone's Department Store
- Garages: Kissel Kar, Mitchell
- Hollenbeck Hotel, Los Angeles
- Joseph E. Carr Building (1909) at 644 S. Broadway (Los Angeles), from 1947 to 1979 home to the Harris & Frank department store[3]
- Lankershim Block, SE corner of 7th and Broadway, demolished, home to the Lankershim Hotel
- Pettebone Building 510-512 S. Broadway
- Rosslyn Hotel
- St. Mary's Church,original church from 1897 to 1923
Elsewhere
- State Reform School, Whittier, California[1]
- Masonic Temple, Corona, California[1]
- Reynolds' department store, Riverside, California[1]
- St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Pasadena, California[1]
- Yuma County court house, at Yuma, Arizona[1]
Gallery
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Hollenbeck Block(1884-1933), SW corner of 2nd & Spring, Los Angeles; photo from c.1900-1905.
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Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles, CA
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California State Reform School, Whittier, CA
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St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Pasadena, CA
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Yuma County Court House, Yuma, AZ
References
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: B. J. S. Cahill's "Architect and Engineer" (1914) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: J. M. Guinn's "A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs: Also Containing Biographies of Well-known Citizens of the Past and Present" (1915)
- ^ a b c d e f g Guinn 1915, p. 183.
- ^ a b c Cahill 1914, p. 79.
- ^ "Los Angeles Union Station Run-through Tracks Project", p. RA6-PP8
Bibliography
- Cahill, B. J. S. (1914). Architect and Engineer. Vol. XXXV (Public domain ed.).
- Guinn, James Miller (1915). A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs: Also Containing Biographies of Well-known Citizens of the Past and Present (Public domain ed.). Historic Record Company. p. 183.