Ross Montgomery (architect) explained

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.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

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.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} Additionally, he helped redesign the Mission Santa Barbara after the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake.^[7] He also designed the stucco mausoleum of the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles.^{[8] [9]} Together with William Mullay, he designed Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Montecito, California in the late 1930s.

As an architectural historian, he wrote about the Awatovi Ruins.^[10]

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.^[11]

Notes and References

1. "Ross Montogmery, 80, Church Architect, Dies" THE TIDINGS-Los Angeles; February 21, 1969, p.4.
2. "VITAL RECORDS-Deaths" Los Angeles Times; February 15, 1969, p.7.
3. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c86m37ff/ Online Archive of California
4. http://www.st-ambrose.com/ch_01.html St. Ambrose Church: History
5. http://local.yahoo.com/info-20418590-st-ambrose-catholic-church-west-hollywood Yahoo! Local
6. Hattie Beresford, The Way It Was: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, Montecito Journal, September 28, 2006
7. Linda S. Cordell, Kent Lightfoot, Francis McManamon, George Milner, Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2008, p. 43 https://books.google.com/books?id=arfWRW5OFVgC&pg=RA2-PA43
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=MXRvA_Hwgq8C&pg=PA61 John Chase, Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving, Verso, 2004, p. 61
9. John Chase, Warren Montag, Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His Contemporaries, Verso, 1999, p. 61 https://books.google.com/books?id=XyAi6kgFuVYC&pg=PA61
10. Linda S. Cordell, Southwest archaeology in the twentieth century, Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 2005, p. 210 https://books.google.com/books?id=6Y5zAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ross+montgomery%22+architect&dq=%22ross+montgomery%22+architect
11. 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.