Henry L. Gogerty

Henry L. Gogerty (1894-1990) was an American architect. He is best known for designing over 350 schools and industrial buildings in Southern California.

Biography

Early life

He was born on January 30, 1894 in Zearing, Iowa.[1][2] He received a Liberal Arts certificate from the University of Dubuque in 1913, graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1917, and later received a degree in architecture from the University of Southern California.[1][2] During the First World War, he served in the field artillery.[2]

Career

In 1901, he began construction on Gardena High School which opened in 1907, and is still open to this day. Together with Carl Jules Weyl (1890-1948), he designed the Spanish Baroque Palace Theater, now known as the Avalon Hollywood, located at 1735 North Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, in 1926-1927.[1][3] Alternatively, in 1926, they designed the Spanish Colonial Baine Building located at 6601-09 Hollywood Boulevard, built for Colonel Harry Baine (1884-1945).[1][4][5] As such, Baine was "the first person to live in a penthouse on Hollywood Boulevard," and his downstairs tenants were the Merchants National Trust and Savings Bank.[5] In 1927, they designed a building located at 6654 Hollywood Boulevard.[1][6] In 1928, they designed shops and studios for Fred Thomson (1890-1928).[1][7] In 1929, they designed the Yucca Vine Tower, a 112-foot, eight-floor building located at 6305-09 Yucca Street in the Yucca Corridor area of Hollywood.[1][8][9] In 1928, he designed the Grand Central Air Terminal of the Glendale Airport in Glendale, California.[1][10]

In 1930, he designed a dance studio located at 6274-84 Yucca Street in Hollywood.[1][11] In 1936, he designed the Compton branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.[1][12] From 1936 to 1938, he designed the Susan Miller Dorsey High School in South Los Angeles.[1][13] From 1941 to 1942, he designed the factory of the Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California.[1][14] From 1942 to 1943, he designed the Naval Ordnance Test Station of the United States Navy in Inyokern, California.[1][15]

In 1950, he designed Union High School in Visalia, California.[1][16] In 1956, together with D. Stewart Kerr, he designed the new buildings of Gardena High School in Gardena, California.[1][17] From 1957 to 1958, he designed another factory for the Hughes Aircraft Company, this time in Fullerton, California.[1][18] In 1959, he designed the new campus of Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California.[1][19] In 1961, he designed new buildings for Allan Hancock College, a community college in Santa Maria, California.[1][20] In 1963, he designed the buildings of the South Hills High School in West Covina, California.[1][21]

He designed the bedrooms of the Biltmore Hotel in Palm Springs, California, while the building itself was designed by architect Frederick Monhoff (1897–1975); it was demolished in 2003.[1][22] He also designed and operated the Desert Air Hotel and Palm Desert Airpark in Rancho Mirage, California until 1968.[2]

He sat on the Board of Trustees of the St. Anne's Foundation and was the recipient of the Angel Award in 1988.[2]

Personal life

He got married in 1922 and divorced in 1930.[1] He died on January 4, 1990 in Los Angeles County, California.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 Pacific Coast Architecture Database
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Henry L. Gogerty; Architect Who Designed Gliding Classroom Walls, The Los Angeles Times, April 06, 1990
  3. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Palace Theater
  4. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Baine Building
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Greg Williams, The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History, 2005, p. 154
  6. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: 6654 Hollywood Boulevard Building
  7. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Fred C. Thomson Shops
  8. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Yucca Vine Tower
  9. ↑ Robert Winter (ed.), An Architectural Guidebook to Los Ángeles, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2003, p. 181
  10. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Glendale Airport
  11. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: 6274-84 Yucca Street Dance Studio
  12. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: County of Los Angeles Public Library, Compton Branch
  13. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Susan M. Dorsey High School
  14. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Hughes Aircraft Company Factory, Culver City, CA
  15. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Naval Ordnance Test Station
  16. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Union High School
  17. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Gardena High School
  18. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Hughes Aircraft Company Factory, Fullerton, CA
  19. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Antelope Valley Junior College
  20. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Allan Hancock College
  21. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: South Hills High School
  22. ↑ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Biltmore Hotel