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."Ross Montogmery, 80, Church Architect, Dies" THE TIDINGS-Los Angeles; February 21, 1969, p.4."VITAL RECORDS-Deaths" Los Angeles Times; February 15, 1969, p.7.
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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.Online Archive of CaliforniaSt. Ambrose Church: HistoryYahoo! LocalHattie Beresford, The Way It Was: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, Montecito_Journal, September 28, 2006 Additionally, he helped redesign the Mission Santa Barbara after the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake.Linda S. Cordell, Kent Lightfoot, Francis McManamon, George Milner, Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2008, p. 43 He also designed the stucco mausoleum of the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles.John Chase, Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving, Verso, 2004, p. 61John Chase, Warren Montag, Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His Contemporaries, Verso, 1999, p. 61 Together with William Mullay, he designed Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Montecito, California in the late 1930s. In 1927, Montgomery designed Santa Clara Elementary School, Oxnard, CA in a Moorish Revival style with outstanding articulated brickwork facade and watch towers.
As an architectural historian, he wrote about the Awatovi Ruins.Linda S. Cordell, Southwest archaeology in the twentieth century, Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 2005, p. 210
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.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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