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Morgan, Walls & Clements

Morgan, Walls & Clements was an architectural firm based in Los Angeles, California and responsible for many of the city's landmarks, dating back to the late 19th century.[1] Originally Morgan and Walls, with principals Octavius Morgan and John A. Walls, the firm worked in the area from before the turn of the century.

Around 1910 Morgan's son O.W. Morgan was promoted, the elder Morgan retired, and with the emergence of designer Stiles O. Clements (1883–1966) the firm hit its stride with a series of theaters and commercial projects around MacArthur Park. Clements often worked in Spanish Colonial revival and Mayan revival styles, but their major project was the black Art Deco Richfield Tower, a commanding presence in downtown from its 1928 completion to its 1969 destruction. Walls did not live to see the completion of the building, as he had died in 1922.


Clements left the firm in 1937 to start his own practice, Stiles O. Clements & Associates, where he remained until his retirement in 1965.

110 S. Main St., Los Angeles, 1884 (Octavius Morgan and Ezra F. K

Grand Opera House

housing The Hub department store, 154-160 N. Main St., Los Angeles, 1895 (demolished 1925)

Bullard Block

Oxnard 1903

Santa Clara Roman Catholic Church

The , Los Angeles, 1906

Bumiller Building

Building, 436–444 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, 1906 (demolished)

Parmelee-Dohrmann

Arcade Theater, 500 block of S. Broadway, Los Angeles, 1910

Title Guarantee Block, now Jewelry Trades Building, 500 S. Broadway, Los Angeles 1913

Los Angeles, 1913

Van Nuys Apartments

Los Angeles, 1915

The Haas Building

The , Los Angeles, 1924

Olive J. Cobb Building

Los Angeles, 1926

El Capitan Theatre

Building, Los Angeles, 1926

Hollywood Chamber of Commerce

Los Angeles, 1926

Music Box Theater

Los Angeles, 1926

Belasco Theater

Ninth & Hill Building, Los Angeles, 1926

Los Angeles, 1927

Mayan Theater

Los Angeles, 1927

Downtown Shopping News, Printing & Distribution Building

The First National Bank of Orange, Orange, 1928

The Building (1100 E. Chevy Chase Dr), Glendale, 1928

Adams Square

Long Beach branch, 1928-9, extant, city landmark building[2]

Famous Department Store

3400 Block W. 6th St., Los Angeles, 1929

Chapman Plaza

The Deco Building, 1929

Los Angeles, 1929 (razed)

Richfield Tower

Samson Tire and Rubber Factory (now ), Commerce, California, 1929-30. The façade was based on the palace of Sargon II.

Citadel Outlets

Security First National Bank, Los Angeles, 1929

Malibu, California, 1930

Adamson House

Leimert Park, Los Angeles, 1931

Leimert Theatre

Los Angeles, 1931

Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre

(5410 Wilshire Boulevard), Los Angeles, 1931

Dominguez-Wilshire Building

Phoenix, Arizona, 1932

Professional Building

Co. (after 1947: Harris & Frank, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, 5450–4 Wilshire Boulevard at Cochran, opened 1936.[3]

Brooks Clothing

The , refurbished 1939

Blackstone Building (Los Angeles)

Their work includes:

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