Ross Montgomery (architect)

Ross G. Montgomery (September 26, 1888, at Toledo, Ohio – February 14, 1969, at Los Angeles, California) was a Los Angeles-based architect, illustrator, and historian.[1][2]

Biography

Montgomery designed the original St. Ambrose Church in West Hollywood, California, the St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Pasadena, California, and the St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California.[3][4][5][6] Additionally, he helped redesign the Mission Santa Barbara after the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake.[6][7] He also designed the stucco mausoleum of the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles.[3][8][9] Together with William Mullay, he designed Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Montecito, California in the late 1930s.[6]

As an architectural historian, he wrote about the Awatovi Ruins.[10]

The original publication by Ross Montgomery related to the Awatovi Expedition of the late 1930s was included in Volume 36 of Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Papers.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Ross Montogmery, 80, Church Architect, Dies" THE TIDINGS-Los Angeles; February 21, 1969, p.4.
  2. ^ "VITAL RECORDS-Deaths" Los Angeles Times; February 15, 1969, p.7.
  3. ^ a b Online Archive of California
  4. ^ St. Ambrose Church: History
  5. ^ Yahoo! Local
  6. ^ a b c Hattie Beresford, The Way It Was: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, Montecito Journal, September 28, 2006
  7. ^ Linda S. Cordell, Kent Lightfoot, Francis McManamon, George Milner, Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2008, p. 43 [1]
  8. ^ John Chase, Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving, Verso, 2004, p. 61
  9. ^ John Chase, Warren Montag, Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His Contemporaries, Verso, 1999, p. 61 [2]
  10. ^ Linda S. Cordell, Southwest archaeology in the twentieth century, Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 2005, p. 210 [3]
  11. ^ Montgomery, Ross Gordon. 1949. Franciscan Awatovi; the excavation and conjectural reconstruction of a 17th-century Spanish mission establishment at a Hopi Indian town in northeastern Arizona. Cambridge, Mass: The Museum.
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