page_title: Myron Hunt
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Myron Hunt / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Title [Myron Hunt house, 200 North Grand Avenue, Pasadena, California. View to house] Contributor Names Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer Created / Published [1917 spring] Subject Headings - Gardens--California--Pasadena--1910-1920 - Houses--California--Pasadena--1910-1920 - Fountains--California--Pasadena--1910-1920 - Sculpture--California--Pasadena--1910-1920 - Vines--California--Pasadena--1910-1920 Format Headings Lantern slides--Hand-colored--1910-1920. Notes - Site History. House: Myron Hunt, 1905. Landscape: Myron Hunt, from 1905. Today: Garden not extant; house a private residence. - Slide used with lecture "California Gardens." - Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011. - Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). - Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 102. Medium 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in. Call Number/Physical Location LC-J717-X98- 16 [P&amp;P] Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id ppmsca 16090 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16090 Library of Congress Control Number 2007685016 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ppmsca-16090 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication. Online Format image Description 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in. LCCN Permalink https://lccn.loc.gov/2007685016
context_page_description: Myron Hubbard Hunt was an American architect whose numerous projects include many noted landmarks in Southern California and Evanston, Illinois. Hunt was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1908.
context_section_description: Hunt is mentioned in the writings of Frank Lloyd Wright and other Chicago architects of the era as an early member of the group which came to be known as the Prairie School, but in 1903 he moved to Los Angeles, where he entered into a partnership with architect Elmer Grey (1871–1963). Opening an office in Pasadena, the firm of Hunt and Grey soon became popular with the well-to-do denizens of that city, who were building many costly houses during that period. Some of the firm's Pasadena work was featured in the national magazine Architectural Record as early as the issue of October, 1906. They were soon designing large houses in communities throughout Southern California including the summer ranch home for cereal magnate Will Keith Kellogg at the present day campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona).
  They also began receiving commissions to design larger projects, including hospitals, schools, churches and hotels. This included work for Throop Institute in Pasadena, the school which would soon become California Institute of Technology. In 1911, they began plans for the new campus of Occidental College in the Eagle Rock district of Los Angeles. (Hunt would be the principal architect of all of Occidental's buildings through 1940.) Another school with which the firm had an association was Pomona College, for which Hunt and Grey designed a master plan of expansion in 1908, and where Hunt designed a concert hall, Bridges Hall of Music, in 1915.
  In 1913, Hunt and Grey designed a new wing for the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. They provided designs for the remodeling, expansion, or construction of a number of hotels during the next decade, culminating with the plans for their largest such project, the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, which opened in 1921. Hunt also redesigned Pasadena's Wentworth Hotel, a failed resort hotel in the city's Oak Knoll residential district purchased by Henry E. Huntington in 1911. Rebuilt to Hunt's design, the hotel reopened as the Huntington Hotel in 1914 and was Pasadena's leading hotel for decades thereafter. In 1921, he transformed the Vista Hotel into one of the premier resorts in Pasadena, designing several of the hotel's original bungalows.
  Hunt and Grey's association with Henry Huntington had been established a few years earlier when, in 1909, they designed his house in San Marino. With a large addition built in 1934, the house was to become the main art gallery of the cultural center built around the Huntington Library.  Later in his career, Hunt would design a new main building for the hospital that bore Huntington's name.
  Another Pasadena landmark designed by Hunt is the Rose Bowl.  In 1927 Hunt designed a hotel for Senator Frank P. Flint, which was quickly sold to the Biltmore chain of hotels.  Due to the Great Depression, the hotel was sold in 1931 to the Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose, who founded Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, an all-girls' day and boarding high school.
  By 1912, Hunt was no longer in partnership with Elmer Grey, but had established a new firm with Los Angeles architect Harold C. Chambers. In this partnership Hunt designed a number of California libraries, including those in Redlands, Palos Verdes Estates (Malaga Cove Library), Santa Barbara, and most notably the Pasadena Central Library, one of the three major civic buildings making up the Pasadena Civic Center District. 
  In 1913, he designed a building for the Standard Oil Company in Los Angeles which they occupied until 1928 and it became a storage facility. From 1975-1991, the building was occupied by a feminist art center called the Woman's Building and was recommended for Historic-Cultural Monument status in 2018. The report states that the building "embodies the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural-type specimen, inherently valuable for study of a period,style,or method of construction as an excellent and highly intact example of Beaux Arts architecture applied to an industrial building. 
  Hunt retired to Port Hueneme, California near Berylwood that h
caption: Myron Hunt house, 200 North Grand Avenue, Pasadena, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1917. Designed by Myron Hunt, 1905, landscape by Myron Hunt, from 1905. Today the garden does not exist anymore, and the house is a private residence
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