STANTON, ROBERT BIOGRAPHY S 4Saturday.Sept301983.1110„ler,11Fri,111114,101!irral? Rr'lof,Wn,y Deaths · Public Library : - California Roodl Robert Stantoi n, Architect And Civic Lec ider, Dies at 83 Robert Stanton, prominent Architect and civic leader who designed Mon- terey Peninsula College, the Monterey County Courthouse In Salinas, Walter Cotton Junior High School and numer- ous other commercial buildings, schools and homes in the Peninsula area, died Thursday at his Carmel Val* ley home after a long Illness. He was 83. Besides acting as architect for many buildings in Monterey County, Mr. Stanton supervised construction of homes for such notable as Bob Hope, King C. Gillette, E.L. Doheny, Fred- eric March, and King VIdor - and, for Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Picklord, the famous "Picklatr" at Beverly Hills. He served as president of the Mon. terey County Symphony Association, the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Community Chewt, Monterey His- tory and Art Association, the Old Mon- tcrey Bleentennial and the Monterey Bay chapter of the American Institute of Architects. "He was a man of elegance and style and lent a certaln old-world quality to our profession," Bald Nathaniel Owings 01 the 8an Francisco architectural firm 01 Skidmore, Owings and Merrm. "He was a great presence, a fine person and a good citizen who contributed much to the community life of Monlerey." Born Jan. 16,1900, in Detroit, Mich., Mr. Stanton was educated in the public schools of Michigan and California. In 1918 he enlisted in the US. Navy, re- reiving an honorable discharge In 1919 aR seaman second class. He graduated Iller,[d Pt©lo) ' ROBERT STANTON ... 8 1972 file photo 1 rom Manual Arts High School In Los Angeles In 1921, then attended the Uni- versity of California, School of Engl- neering, from 1921-23. On Dec. 8, 1922, he married Virginia Young, whom he met when they Were both working on a stage Bet as Berkeley students. He is reported to have proposed to hie future bride by saying, "For 10 cents Id marry you." And she Is reported lo have quickly produced a dime from her pocket. % iK The couple moved to the Peninsula in 1925.. He was a general contractor and de- slgner of residential work on the Penin- sula from 1924-28, then took charge of all building supervision for architect Wallace Neff of Pasadena from 1926-29. During this Deriod he supervised con- struction of the Gillette, Doheny, March and Vidor homes as well as "Pickfalr." He reumed his studies at the Unlver- slty of California at Berkeley In 1930, completing Ms architectural training in 1933 and in 1934 passed the Callfornia State Architectural Examination. From 1934-35 he was associated with , · Neff as a partner in construction and presentation to the public of the first pre-fabricated, factory-built house in the west, It was named "Honeymoon Cottage" by Mary Pickford and ip peared on the front page of the Chris- tiao Science Monitor. But the house was too far ahead of its time to be placed into mass production. In 1935 he began his own career as ati architect by opening offices in the Del Monte Hotel. In 1941 he moved his of. fices to Los Angeles at the request of ' . the U.S. Government Federal Works Agency, Which selected him to do three hospital additions and to be the con,ult- ant ona fourth hospital during the war. 1]1 1943 he reopened }08 office in Pebble Beach. and In 1948 was selected by the Advisory Board of the California State Bureau of Hospitals to be 118 con- sulting architect, a position he held in addition to his by-nowlarge private ar- chltectural practice. In 1948, Mr. Stanton'* name was in- cluded on the Initial roster 01 hospital architects approved by the American Ho#ital Association, Mr. Stanton moved his office to Car- mel in 1948, and shortly thereafter the organization tgrew to approximately 40 , persons, many of whom later attalnbd i prominence as architects In their own t ' right, v During 1953-54 he werved with the : Senate Interim Committee on Public Works for the state of California, and ·acted as consultant to the National Committee on Hospitals for the Amerl- can Institute of Architects. In 1955 he made an extensive tour of Eumpe. concentrating on hospitals in the Scandinavian countries, and did considerable work at the Army Lan. guage School and Fort Ord from 1956- 57. He also restored and remodeled the Church of the Wayfarer in Carmel and in 1967-68 he restored and remodeled St. John's Chapel, Monterey. Among California schools desigmed by Mr. Stanton are Monterey Peninsula College; David Avenue Elementaty School, Paclic Grove, Monte Vista Elementary School, Monterey; Del Rey Woods Elementary School, Mon. terey; Pacific Grove Union High School; and schoole and school build- ings in King City, Fresno, Morgan Hill, Petaluma, Santa Cruz, Napa and Corralitos. He also designed Monterey County Hospital, Salinas Valley Memorial Hos- pital, San Benito County Hospital, and hospitals in Marin County, San Diego, San Bernarang Lynwood, Page Rob. les, San Andreas, Mariposa, Modesto and San Rafael. He worked on the design ofthe mam- ter plan for the Presidio of Monterey and designed buildings for the Preddio, for Fort Ord and for Hunter Liggett Reservation. He prepared a cultural 2 master plan for Sunset Center in Car- mel in 1975. He designed the Normandle Intl In Carmel, the Blue Bell Beaker in Mon- terey, and nuhlerous homes in Carmel, Pebble Beach, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Hollister, Los Angeles, North Hollywood, Maryaville and Palm Desert, as well as hls own residence Itt Carmel Valley, which was in 1949 the subject of an entire 18sue of House Beautiful magazine. He also played a large part in the preservation of Monterey adobes and the Flrst Brick House as chairman of the Committee on Architecture of the Monterey History and Art Association. In 1972, Mr. Stanton was named a fellow in the American Institute of Ar- chitects. the first member of the Mon- terey Bay Chapter of AIA to be so honored. He was a director of the Call[ornia Council of AIA from 1959-60 He wae a}Mo a member of the Ameri· can Hospital Assoclation, the Califor- nia Hospital Association, the ABSOCi· ation of Western Hospitals. the California Association of School Ad- -z miniBtrators, the Cypress Point Club, the Old Capital Club, the Monterey Peninsula Country CIub the Navy League and lhe American Legion. During Ronald Reagan's first year as governor of California, in 1967, Mr. Stanton was a volunteer member of a special task loree to reduce spending in the executive branch. 10 1982. Mr. Stanton and his wife Vir- ginia were honored at a tribute to his life and work held at the Monterey Con- ference Center, where a musical pro- duction recalled many of the mile- stones in his life, and a featured attraction was the recreation of a bed Mr. Stanton designed In 1939 for Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Da}i for a party at the old Del Monte Hotel. Mr. Stanton's hobby was music. and for one season in the 1930s he sang with the San Francisco Opera Company. his rich baritone voice having been heard in 18 operas. i . FriendB and business assoclates Fri- I day expressed their sorrow at learning 01 Mr. Stanton's death. Fred M¢Nulty, architect and mem. bet of the Carmel Planning Commis- sion, said he went to work for Mr. Stan- ton in 1949 and worked forhlm for three years. "I got quite sick at one time and I remember thal he offered to give his own blood if 1 needed It for a trans- fusion. 1 was juat one poor lowly drafts· man in his office, and I was matounded. But that was the kind of guy he was." Fred Keeble, of the Monterey firm of Keeble and Rhoda, architects, de- I serlbed Mr. Stanton as "a truly fine , , architect in every senBe of the word," ';He never allowed the oost or fee to detennine the time and effort ex· penled on a project," Keeble said, ; "Regardless of its size or importance the end reu]1 was all that mattered, "He gave numerous architects who are now practicing in the area their start," Keeble Bald. 20d 4*6 ST96999I£8 9I:LII002-2.0-' miz,1.511(ar--,ee„mt„r=, 2002 AHVHHIlOIlEndANIK ST999179TERXVi90:ZI(1314TOOZ/LO/ZO , OCR Text: STANTON, ROBERT BIOGRAPHY S 4Saturday.Sept301983.1110„ler,11Fri,111114,101!irral? Rr'lof,Wn,y Deaths · Public Library : - California Roodl Robert Stantoi n, Architect And Civic Lec ider, Dies at 83 Robert Stanton, prominent Architect and civic leader who designed Mon- terey Peninsula College, the Monterey County Courthouse In Salinas, Walter Cotton Junior High School and numer- ous other commercial buildings, schools and homes in the Peninsula area, died Thursday at his Carmel Val* ley home after a long Illness. He was 83. Besides acting as architect for many buildings in Monterey County, Mr. Stanton supervised construction of homes for such notable as Bob Hope, King C. Gillette, E.L. Doheny, Fred- eric March, and King VIdor - and, for Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Picklord, the famous "Picklatr" at Beverly Hills. He served as president of the Mon. terey County Symphony Association, the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Community Chewt, Monterey His- tory and Art Association, the Old Mon- tcrey Bleentennial and the Monterey Bay chapter of the American Institute of Architects. "He was a man of elegance and style and lent a certaln old-world quality to our profession," Bald Nathaniel Owings 01 the 8an Francisco architectural firm 01 Skidmore, Owings and Merrm. "He was a great presence, a fine person and a good citizen who contributed much to the community life of Monlerey." Born Jan. 16,1900, in Detroit, Mich., Mr. Stanton was educated in the public schools of Michigan and California. In 1918 he enlisted in the US. Navy, re- reiving an honorable discharge In 1919 aR seaman second class. He graduated Iller,[d Pt©lo) ' ROBERT STANTON ... 8 1972 file photo 1 rom Manual Arts High School In Los Angeles In 1921, then attended the Uni- versity of California, School of Engl- neering, from 1921-23. On Dec. 8, 1922, he married Virginia Young, whom he met when they Were both working on a stage Bet as Berkeley students. He is reported to have proposed to hie future bride by saying, "For 10 cents Id marry you." And she Is reported lo have quickly produced a dime from her pocket. % iK The couple moved to the Peninsula in 1925.. He was a general contractor and de- slgner of residential work on the Penin- sula from 1924-28, then took charge of all building supervision for architect Wallace Neff of Pasadena from 1926-29. During this Deriod he supervised con- struction of the Gillette, Doheny, March and Vidor homes as well as "Pickfalr." He reumed his studies at the Unlver- slty of California at Berkeley In 1930, completing Ms architectural training in 1933 and in 1934 passed the Callfornia State Architectural Examination. From 1934-35 he was associated with , · Neff as a partner in construction and presentation to the public of the first pre-fabricated, factory-built house in the west, It was named "Honeymoon Cottage" by Mary Pickford and ip peared on the front page of the Chris- tiao Science Monitor. But the house was too far ahead of its time to be placed into mass production. In 1935 he began his own career as ati architect by opening offices in the Del Monte Hotel. In 1941 he moved his of. fices to Los Angeles at the request of ' . the U.S. Government Federal Works Agency, Which selected him to do three hospital additions and to be the con,ult- ant ona fourth hospital during the war. 1]1 1943 he reopened }08 office in Pebble Beach. and In 1948 was selected by the Advisory Board of the California State Bureau of Hospitals to be 118 con- sulting architect, a position he held in addition to his by-nowlarge private ar- chltectural practice. In 1948, Mr. Stanton'* name was in- cluded on the Initial roster 01 hospital architects approved by the American Ho#ital Association, Mr. Stanton moved his office to Car- mel in 1948, and shortly thereafter the organization tgrew to approximately 40 , persons, many of whom later attalnbd i prominence as architects In their own t ' right, v During 1953-54 he werved with the : Senate Interim Committee on Public Works for the state of California, and ·acted as consultant to the National Committee on Hospitals for the Amerl- can Institute of Architects. In 1955 he made an extensive tour of Eumpe. concentrating on hospitals in the Scandinavian countries, and did considerable work at the Army Lan. guage School and Fort Ord from 1956- 57. He also restored and remodeled the Church of the Wayfarer in Carmel and in 1967-68 he restored and remodeled St. John's Chapel, Monterey. Among California schools desigmed by Mr. Stanton are Monterey Peninsula College; David Avenue Elementaty School, Paclic Grove, Monte Vista Elementary School, Monterey; Del Rey Woods Elementary School, Mon. terey; Pacific Grove Union High School; and schoole and school build- ings in King City, Fresno, Morgan Hill, Petaluma, Santa Cruz, Napa and Corralitos. He also designed Monterey County Hospital, Salinas Valley Memorial Hos- pital, San Benito County Hospital, and hospitals in Marin County, San Diego, San Bernarang Lynwood, Page Rob. les, San Andreas, Mariposa, Modesto and San Rafael. He worked on the design ofthe mam- ter plan for the Presidio of Monterey and designed buildings for the Preddio, for Fort Ord and for Hunter Liggett Reservation. He prepared a cultural 2 master plan for Sunset Center in Car- mel in 1975. He designed the Normandle Intl In Carmel, the Blue Bell Beaker in Mon- terey, and nuhlerous homes in Carmel, Pebble Beach, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Hollister, Los Angeles, North Hollywood, Maryaville and Palm Desert, as well as hls own residence Itt Carmel Valley, which was in 1949 the subject of an entire 18sue of House Beautiful magazine. He also played a large part in the preservation of Monterey adobes and the Flrst Brick House as chairman of the Committee on Architecture of the Monterey History and Art Association. In 1972, Mr. Stanton was named a fellow in the American Institute of Ar- chitects. the first member of the Mon- terey Bay Chapter of AIA to be so honored. He was a director of the Call[ornia Council of AIA from 1959-60 He wae a}Mo a member of the Ameri· can Hospital Assoclation, the Califor- nia Hospital Association, the ABSOCi· ation of Western Hospitals. the California Association of School Ad- -z miniBtrators, the Cypress Point Club, the Old Capital Club, the Monterey Peninsula Country CIub the Navy League and lhe American Legion. During Ronald Reagan's first year as governor of California, in 1967, Mr. Stanton was a volunteer member of a special task loree to reduce spending in the executive branch. 10 1982. Mr. Stanton and his wife Vir- ginia were honored at a tribute to his life and work held at the Monterey Con- ference Center, where a musical pro- duction recalled many of the mile- stones in his life, and a featured attraction was the recreation of a bed Mr. Stanton designed In 1939 for Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Da}i for a party at the old Del Monte Hotel. Mr. Stanton's hobby was music. and for one season in the 1930s he sang with the San Francisco Opera Company. his rich baritone voice having been heard in 18 operas. i . FriendB and business assoclates Fri- I day expressed their sorrow at learning 01 Mr. Stanton's death. Fred M¢Nulty, architect and mem. bet of the Carmel Planning Commis- sion, said he went to work for Mr. Stan- ton in 1949 and worked forhlm for three years. "I got quite sick at one time and I remember thal he offered to give his own blood if 1 needed It for a trans- fusion. 1 was juat one poor lowly drafts· man in his office, and I was matounded. But that was the kind of guy he was." Fred Keeble, of the Monterey firm of Keeble and Rhoda, architects, de- I serlbed Mr. Stanton as "a truly fine , , architect in every senBe of the word," ';He never allowed the oost or fee to detennine the time and effort ex· penled on a project," Keeble said, ; "Regardless of its size or importance the end reu]1 was all that mattered, "He gave numerous architects who are now practicing in the area their start," Keeble Bald. 20d 4*6 ST96999I£8 9I:LII002-2.0-' miz,1.511(ar--,ee„mt„r=, 2002 AHVHHIlOIlEndANIK ST999179TERXVi90:ZI(1314TOOZ/LO/ZO , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,S through T File names,Stanton, Robert,STANTON, ROBERT ARCHITECT_007.pdf,STANTON, ROBERT ARCHITECT_007.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: ROBERT ARCHITECT_007.PDF,STANTON, STANTON, ROBERT ARCHITECT_007.pdf 1 Page 1