William and Alexander Curlett

William F. Curlett (County Down, Ireland, March 3, 1846 – January 21, 1914, San Francisco)^[1] and Alexander Edward Curlett (called Aleck) (San Francisco, February 6, 1881 – September 5, 1942)^[2] were a father-and-son pair of architects. They worked together as partners under the name of William Curlett and Son, Architects from c. 1908–1916.^[3] Aleck Curlett partnered with Claud Beelman as Curlett & Beelman (1919–1932).^[4]

Los Angeles Board of Trade Building

The San Francisco firm of Curlett, Eisen, & Cuthbertson, Architects, was active in the 1880s; it designed the Los Angeles County Courthouse in 1887. In 1888, the firm occupied Room #41 of the Downey Block. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1888, p. 768.)^[5]

Works

National Register of Historic Places

A number of works by either or both Curletts are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.^[6] These works (in California unless otherwise noted) include:

William Curlett

• Theodore F. Payne House (1881), San Francisco
• Mutual Savings Bank Building (1902), San Francisco^[7]
• Packard Library (1906), Marysville
• Phelan Building (1908), San Francisco
• Villa Montalvo (1914), Saratoga
• Haas Californiandy Factory, San Francisco

Alex and William Curlett

• Hotel Congress (1918), Tucson, Arizona
• Rialto Theatre (1920), Tucson, Arizona
• Rialto Building, Tucson, Arizona

Alex Curlett

• Building at 816 South Grand Avenue (1924), Los Angeles
• Roosevelt Building (1926), Los Angeles
• Fifth Street Store Building (1927), Los Angeles^[8]
• Board of Trade Building (1929), Los Angeles
• Equitable Building of Hollywood (1929/1931), Los Angeles^[9]

Curlett & Beelman

• Cooper Arms Apartments (1923), Long Beach
• Culver Hotel (1924), Culver City
• Chester Williams Building (1926), Los Angeles^[8]
• Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building (1928), Los Angeles
• Security Building (1928), Phoenix, Arizona

Other works

Other of their works include:

• New Lanfranco Block (1888), Los Angeles, with Eisen and Cuthbertson^[10][11]
• Potomac Block (1890), Los Angeles, with Block and Eisen
• St. Mark's Episcopal Church (1902), Berkeley^[12]
• Foreman & Clark Building (1929), Los Angeles, with Beelman
• Commercial Club of Southern California, Los Angeles^[13]