Beverly Hills Historic Preservation Heats Up with Master Architects List Approved

As Beverly Hills moves into it's new role as an advocate of it's own Historic Preservation Ordinance, the List of Master Architects was presented and approved this past Tuesday by Beverly Hills City Council.  In conjunction with the city's Cultural heritage Commission and historic consultant, a list of 150 architects, designers and builders who are known to have worked in Beverly Hills prior to 1970.

Included on the list are many mid-century modern Master Architects.  Here are just some of the folks who made it on the Top 150:

• Gregory Ain
• Buff, Straub & Hensman
• Welton David Becket
• Richard Dorman
• Eckbo, Royston & Williams
• Henry Eggers
• Craig Ellwood
• Edward H. Fickett
• Archibald Quincy Jones
• Thornton Ladd
• Paul László
• John Lautner
• Harold Levitt
• Cliff May
• Richard Joseph Neutra
• I.M. Pei
• Rudolph M. Schindler
• Millard Sheets
• Robert Skinner
• Rodney Walker
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Lloyd Wright

Look for the City of Beverly Hills to nominate it's first Historic Landmark in the next few months.  To all of the Master Architects who made the Top 150, congratulations.