Architect J.E. Stanton designed the Regency Moderne style Honnold Mudd Library in 1952. Located on the campus of Pomona College, 800 North Dartmouth Avenue, Claremont, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architect Jo Paul Rognstad designed the Modernist style house and studio for painter and sculptor James Edward Grant and his wife Nancy nee Parkford Grant in 1952. James Grant was best know for his work in sculptural plastics, starting from abstract canvases, moving through collages and bas-reliefs until the work finally came off the wall in sculptural form.
In 1950 he accepted a teaching position at Pomona College in Claremont, California where he was Assistant Professor of Art for nine years. During his tenure at Pomona he worked with many influential artists and art historians, including painters Karl Benjamin (who lived immediately behind him in a house at 676 West 9th Street) and Frederick Hammersley, as well as Peter Selz (who later went on to become Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Seymour Slive (Director of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University).
Architects Mark Schoeman and Laurel Tucker dba The Tucker- Schoeman Venture are the current owners of the house. They added a Master Suite to the main house and expanded the studio. I had the pleasure of meeting Mark this past Sunday, August 25, 2019 who gave me a tour of the house and enlightened me on the local architectural scene.
The James Grant House and Studio is located at 676 West Ninth Street in Claremont, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architects Dion Neutra, Richard J. Neutra and Robert Alexander redesigned the Modernist style church in 1968 after a fire the previous year badly damaged the original 1959 structure. Located at 211 West Foothill Boulevard in Claremont, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architects Donald Hensman and Conrad Buff III designed the Modernist style house for Dr. Daniel Carlos Vandermuelen and his wife Dr. Alice J. Vandermuelen in 1965. Daniel Carlson Vandermeulen, emeritus professor of economics at the Claremont Graduate School, grew up in Buffalo, NY, where he was born on December 18. 1914. H attended Hamilton College in New York in 1932, excelling academically, earning the Chauncey S. Truax Greek Scholarship as well as the Hawley Latin Prize. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he was graduated with honors in 1936. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1947, studying with some of the most distinguished economists of his time including Joseph Schumpeter, and one of his fellow students was the future Nobel laureate Paul A. Samuelson.
He met his future wife Alice M. John, a fellow graduate student in economics; the couple were married on September 3, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Alice Vandermuelen served as Assistant to the Dean at Claremont Men's College. In addition to a number of scholarly articles and book reviews, Professor Vandermeulen was the coauthor, with his wife, of National Income: Analysis by Sector Accounts (1956) and author of Linear Economic Theory (1971). Daniel C. Vandermeulen died on May 9, 2010, in his 95th year. Predeceased by his wife in 1983, he was survived by a son, David J. Vandermeulen, and two grandchildren, Laura D. and John B. Vandermeulen.
The Vandermeulen House is located at 696 West 10th Street in Claremont, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architect and artist Millard Sheets designed the Modernist style complex in 1953 for Millard Sheets designs, Inc., the design studio that employed up to thirty artists and architects during the heyday of his architectural practice. The complex included an office building and drafting room connected to a design studio, all "nestled in a courtyard-like garden surrounded by exotic plants and stone pathways," as described by the LA Conservancy's booklet on Sheets.
Located at 655 East Foothill Boulevard in Claremont, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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