Ralph Carlin Flewelling (May 4, 1894 – December 30, 1975) was an American architect. He designed many buildings in Los Angeles County, California.
Early life Flewelling was born on May 4, 1894, in St. Louis, Michigan.Pacific Coast Architecture Database His father was Ralph Tyler Flewelling. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and he received a Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1917.
Career Flewelling started his career as a draftsman for Henry M. Patterson, a Los Angeles-based architect, from 1921 to 1923. He then worked for William Lee Woollett (1874-1955) from 1924 to 1925. He opened his own architectural practise in 1925.
Flewelling designed the Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills, California in 1928.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Beverly Hills Unified School District, Hawthorne School, Beverly Hills, CA He designed the Electric Fountain in Beverly Hills in 1931. He also designed the Beverly Hills Post Office in 1932 and 1933.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: United States Government, Postal Service (USPS), Post Office, Beverly Hills Main, Beverly Hills, CA Later, he designed the city hall and police station in Newport Beach, California in 1949.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: City of Newport Beach, City Hall and Police Station, Newport Beach, CA He also designed the All Saints' Episcopal Church in Riverside, California.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, All Saints' Episcopal Church, Riverside, CA
Flewelling became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1941.
With Walter Leland Moody Together with Walter Leland Moody, Flewelling designed Santa Ana College located at 1530 West 17th Street in Santa Ana, California in 1947.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Santa Ana Junior College, Santa Ana, CA Two years later, in 1949, they designed Paradise Canyon Elementary School located at 471 Knight Way in La Canada, California.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: La Canada Unified School District, Paradise Canyon Elementary School, La Canada, CA
They designed Morningside High School located at 10500 Yukon Avenue in Inglewood, California in 1953.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Inglewood Unified School District, Morningside High School, Inglewood, CA The following year, in 1954, they designed the Center Street School located at 700 Center Street in El Segundo, California.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: El Segundo Unified School District, Center Street School, El Segundo, CA That year, they also designed the Del Norte School in West Covina, California.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: West Covina Unified School District, Del Norte School, West Covina, CA A year later, in 1955, they designed the Hawthorne High School in Hawthorne, California.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Centinela Valley School District, Hawthorne High School, Hawthorne, CA
They designed the Seeley W. Mudd Library located at 640 North College Avenue in Claremont, California in 1970; it is named for Seeley W. Mudd.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Claremont College, Mudd, Seeley W., Library, Claremont, CA
Personal life and death Flewelling married twice, first in 1925 and then in 1951. He had a child in 1930. He died on December 30, 1975, in Los Angeles County, California.
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