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LLEWELLYN ADELBERT PARKER

 

 

PARKER, LLEWELLYN ADELBERT, Architectural Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Denver, Colo., Dec. 6, 1882.  He is the son of Edgar Daniel Parker and Clara Marie (Haigh) Parker.  He married Constance Irene Bulfinch, Feb. 18, 1913.

            Mr. Parker’s parents moved to California when he was two years of age and first located in Oakland.  Mr. Parker attended schools there until the family moved to Los Angeles, where he graduated from the High School in 1902.  He then became a student in the Mass. Inst. of Technology and graduated in 1906 with the degree of B. S.

            Upon the complete of his studies Mr. Parker returned to California and entered the employ for Charles F. Whittlesy & Co., architects, San Francisco and Los Angeles.  He was appointed Designing Engineer of the firm, in charge of the Engineering Dept.  He remained in that position until 1907, when he entered in to partnership with Edward L. Mayberry, who had been his classmate in Boston, as Architectural Engineers, headquarters, Los Angeles.

            Mr. Parker is a member of Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the Engineers’ and Architects’ Assn. of Los Angeles, the B. P. O. E., and the University Club of Los Angeles.

            Since joining issues with [Edward Leodore] Mayberry & Parker have designed and built numerous important structures.  They have designed and erected nearly a dozen important bridges, including the Linda Vista Viaduct in Pasadena, 65 feet in height and 400 feet in length; the Arroyo Park bridge, near Los Angeles, 50 feet high and 355 long-the only on of its kind in the world.  They also built ten re-enforced concrete bridges for the County of Ventura, from 20 to 150 feet in length.

            Other bridge work done by the firm are the Center street bridge across the Salt River at Phoenix Ariz., the longest contract girder bridge in the world-two thousand one hundred and fifty feet long with a causeway and one thousand feet long.

            Mr. Mayberry and Mr. Parker engineered the majestic Theater building, the Panorama Theater, Luckenbach building and others in Los Angeles; the Kern County (Cal.) Hall of Records, Pomona (Cal.) City Hall, Long Beach (Cal.) Polytechnic School and the Goodrich, Goldberg and other buildings at Phoenix, Ariz.; the hotel and station at Williams, Ariz.; Syracuse, Kan., and Needles, Cal., all Santa Fe Railroad buildings.

 

 

Transcribed By:  Michele Y. Larsen on 17 November 2011.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 843, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2011 Michele Y. Larsen.

 

 

 

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