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Title: Robert Stacy-Judd papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000180
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
81.0 Linear feet
(38 record storage boxes, 14 flat file drawers, 1 pedastal, and 1 bust)
Date (inclusive): circa 1911-circa 1975
creator:
Stacy-Judd, Robert, 1884-1975 -- Archives
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Robert Stacey-Judd, 1973. Additional materials gifted by Charles Podmore, 1975.
Robert Stacy-Judd papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Robert Stacy-Judd was born in London, England on June 21, 1884. He attended Acton College, Regent Street Polytechnic Institute,
and the South Kensington Science and Art Institute in London, graduating in 1905. Stacy-Judd apprenticed under architect James
Thompson for four years. From 1906-1907, he was an architect with the surveying department for the Great Northern Railway
Company in London. From 1907-1908, he was the architect in charge of ground office construction for the Franco-British Expedition
in London. Between 1911 and 1922, Stacy-Judd traveled and worked in Minot, North Dakota as well as the Canadian province of
Alberta. In 1922, he made an exploratory trip to California and before the end of the year had moved and started an architecture
practice in Los Angeles. In 1923, he encountered the pre-Columbian architecture of Mexico and Central America through the
1841 book
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan by John L. Stephens, which significantly influenced his architectural work. A year later, in 1924, Stacy-Judd finished the
Aztec Hotel in Monrovia, near Los Angeles, which was his first design in pre-Columbian revival. Other notable projects executed
by Robert Stacy-Judd include: the First Baptist Church in Ventura, California, the Philosophical Research Society Building
in Hollywood California, the Village of Krotona Institute of Theosophy in the Ojai Valley, and the Masonic Temple in North
Hollywood California. Stacy-Judd wrote and lectured on Mayan architecture, and during the depression embarked on a book project
concerning the lost City of Atlantis. Robert Stacy-Judd died in 1975.
Robert Stacy-Judd papers span 85 linear feet and date from circa 1911 to circa 1975. The collection includes his unpublished
manuscript,
Autobiography of an architect and other writings, including those about Mayan culture; audio and moving image recordings, correspondence, research files, newspaper and magazine
clippings, building material samples, documentation of his student work and travel to South America, photographs, sketches,
architectural drawings and presentation boards for buildings in North Dakota and California.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Stacy-Judd, Robert, 1884-1975
Stacy-Judd, Robert, 1884-1975
Architect-designed decorative arts -- United States -- 20th century
Architects -- California
Architecture -- California -- 20th century
Architecture -- United States -- 20th century -- Sources
Correspondence
Photographic prints
Prefabricated houses -- United States
Sketches
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