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Title: Ocean House Hotel
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: Flannery, William, Architect
Morgan, Julia, 1872-1957, Architect
Hayward, Florence, Interior Designer
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1948]
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Exterior and interior views of resort hotel. Many images of guest rooms and suites.
Originally built as a house by William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies. Original design by William Flannery, in consultation with Julia Morgan. Sold by Davis in 1946 to Hearst Corporation, which sold it in 1947 to Joseph Drown, a developer who converted the house into a hotel. House demolished by Drown in 1956. Accompanied by note in Parker's handwriting indicating images sold (housed in box 202 folder 14).
Architectural Digest 12, no. 2, 107–11. Pictorial California 23, no. 4, Vacation 1948, 10–11.
Type: image
Extent: Number of items: 64 ; Black-and-white negatives (64 - Item numbers 5, 6, 9, 30, 42, 16, 17, and 21 have writing on the emulsion side of negative)
Identifier: photCL MLP 0314
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/6176
Language: English
Subject: Hotels--Photographs
Resort architecture--Photographs
Lounges--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
Outdoor living spaces--Photographs
Living rooms--Photographs
Bedrooms--Photographs
Swimming pools--Photographs
Place: Santa Monica, Calif.
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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