Myron Hunt

Myron Hubbard Hunt[2] (February 27, 1868 – May 26, 1952) was an American architect whose numerous projects include many noted landmarks in Southern California and Evanston, Illinois.

Hunt was born in Sunderland, Massachusetts, but his family later moved to Chicago where he graduated from Lake View High School in the city's Lakeview district.

[1] After spending three years in Europe, he returned to Evanston where he obtained a position as draftsman in the local office of the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.

Opening an office in Pasadena, the firm of Hunt and Grey soon became popular with the well-to-do denizens of that city, who were building many costly houses during that period.

Hunt and Grey's association with Henry Huntington had been established a few years earlier when, in 1909, they designed his house in San Marino.

Due to the Great Depression, the hotel was sold in 1931 to the Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose, who founded Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, an all-girls' day and boarding high school.

[11] By 1912, Hunt was no longer in partnership with Elmer Grey, but had established a new firm with Los Angeles architect Harold C. Chambers.

[12] Hunt retired to Port Hueneme, California near Berylwood that he designed for the home of Senator Thomas R. Bard.

Myron Hunt house, 200 North Grand Avenue, Pasadena, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1917. Designed by Myron Hunt, 1905, landscape by Myron Hunt, from 1905. Today the garden does not exist anymore, and the house is a private residence
Bridges Hall of Music (1915) at Pomona College has been described as Hunt's masterpiece. [ 9 ]