Ezra F. Kysor

Ezra F. Kysor (1835-1907) was an American architect.

Biography

Early life

Ezra Frank Kysor was born on August 06, 1835 and grew up in New York.[1] He went West in his thirties.[1]

Career

He first set up an architectural office in Virginia City, Nevada.[1] By 1868, however, he settled in Los Angeles, California.[1]

He designed the Pico House in 1869-1870, remodeled the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum in 1870, and designed the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana in 1876.[2][3][4][5] The Merced Theatre in Merced, California has also been attributed to him.[3]

He partnered with E.J. Weston, Octavius Morgan, Sr. and John A. Walls.[1]

Personal life

He was married to Clara Perry. They had a son, Charles H. Kysor (1883-1954), who was also an architect.[6] He died on May 07, 1907.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Ezra F. Kysor
  2. ↑ Familiarize With Founders: Important Places To The People Who Built LA, CBS Los Angeles, August 13, 2012
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Winter (ed.), An Architectural Guidebook to Los Ángeles, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2003, p. 263
  4. ↑ Stephen J. Sass, Downtown’s Jewish L.A.ndmarks, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, August 9, 2011
  5. ↑ Patricia Chambers Walker, Thomas Graham, The Directory of Historic House Museums in the United States, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, p. 18
  6. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Charles H. Kysor