Allen George Siple (July 9, 1900 – January 10, 1973) was an American architect, working in Southern California from the 1930s to 1960s.

Early life Siple was born on July 9, 1900 in Otsego, Michigan.Pacific Coast Architecture DatabaseAlan Hess, Forgotten modern: California houses 1940–1970, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2007, pp. 262-264 His father, George H. Siple, was Canadian and his mother, Jessie, was from Michigan. In 1924, his father retired to Southern California and they moved into a house located at 972 Arapahoe Street, Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of Southern California and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.

Career In Los Angeles, Siple worked as an architect for the Janss Investment Company. They were developing the community of Westwood in Los Angeles.

1930s In 1930, Siple designed the W.R. Balsom Jr. House in Westwood Hills.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: W. R. Balsom, Jr., House'Residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Balsom, Jr., Westwood Hills: Allen G. Siple, architect.', Architectural Digest, 9: 4, 14, 1934-1935 In 1932, he designed "The Grove," also known as the "Grove Bungalow Court," located at 10669-10683 Santa Monica Boulevard in Westwood, Los Angeles.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Grove Bungalow CourtRobert Winter (ed.), An Architectural Guidebook to Los Ángeles, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2003, p. 142 In 1940, Edla Muir (1906-1971) added two rear cottages.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Edla Muir The property became a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1987. In 1935, he designed the residence of actress Jane Withers (1926–2021) in Westwood Hills.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Jane Withers House'Residence of Miss Jane Withers, Westwood Hills, California.', Architectural Digest, 10: 1, 90-91, 1938-1940 He designed the private residence of actor and producer Jack Conway (1887-1952) and his wife Virginia at All Hollows Farm in Pacific Palisades, California.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: All Hollows Farm The house was called All Hollows Farm. After Jack Conway's death in 1952, Debbie Reynolds (born 1932) and Eddie Fisher (1928-2010) purchased the property.

1940s From 1940 to 1941, Siple designed the Minnezawa Bell House located on Linda Flora Drive Bel Air for Monnezawa Bell (1911-1983), daughter of Alphonzo Bell (1875-1947), who developed Bel Air, California.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Minnezawa Bell House It is a 10-room, Colonial Revival Style mansion.'New Bell Residence Offers Innovation', Los Angeles Times, E7, February 2, 1941 Later in the 1940s, he designed the "Knot Garden House," a Regency Revival mansion with Colonial Revival architecture interiors.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Knot Garden House'Front Facade on cover', House Beautiful, front cover, July 1943'Back facade on front cover', House Beautiful, front cover, June 1946Reuben Whitney, 'Twice a Cover House', House Beautiful, 89: 8, 41-47, August 1947 The property came with front gardens designed by locally renowned landscape architect Edward Huntsman-Trout (1889-1974).Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Edward Huntsman-Trout Also in the 1940s, he designed the "South Lanai House," a Monterey Colonial style house.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: South Lanai HouseElizabeth Gordon, 'The idiom of traditionalism cloaks a relatively good floor plan and very good site plan', House Beautiful, 89:9, 09/1947, pp. 108-109

During 1946 and 1947, Siple designed the model home for the Tahquitz River Estates, a neighborhood development in Palm Springs, California, by real estate developer Paul Trousdale (1915-1990).Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Trousdale Model HomeElizabeth Gordon, 'How to Get Twice as much Use of Your Land', House Beautiful, 89: 11, 166-176, 11/1947 Siple also designed houses in Westdale, Los Angeles, another neighborhood developed by Trousdale.

1960s By the 1960s, Siple was the supervising architect for Trousdale Estates in Beverly Hills, California, another neighborhood developed by Trousdale, on the former Doheny Ranch on the east of Greystone Mansion. He also designed Paul Trousdale's private residence in Palm Springs, California.Huntington Digital Library, Huntington.org. Accessed March 28, 2024.

Death Siple died at the age of 72 on January 10, 1973 in Los Angeles County, California.

See also List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the Westside

References

External links LA Curbed: residences by Allen Siple