Meyer & Holler

Meyer & Holler was an architecture firm based in Los Angeles, California, noted for its opulent commercial buildings and movie theatres, including Grauman’s Chinese and Egyptian theatres, built during the 1920s. Meyer & Holler was also known as The Milwaukee Building Company.

Design build

The Milwaukee Building Company was established in 1905 as a design and construction firm, with Mendel Meyer as President, Gabriel Holler as Vice President, and Julius C. Schneider as Secretary. In 1911, they were joined by Phillip W. Holler.

Gabriel S. Meyer
Born 1874
Los Angeles, California
Died 1955
Santa Barbara, California
Occupation Architect
Practice Meyer & Holler
Buildings Grauman's Egyptian Theatre
Petroleum Building

The Milwaukee Building Company became the Los Angeles-based architectural office of Meyer & Holler, an eminent firm responsible for the design of numerous Southern California landmark buildings. The company opted for the Design-build approach very early in its history. The architectural firm to design the structure and the Milwaukee Building Company to build it. Only on very rare occasions did it contract to erect projects designed by independent architects. In the 1920s in Los Angeles, Meyer & Holler were one of the most esteemed architectural firms, and the Milwaukee Building Company was the largest contracting firm.

At first emphasizing residential work of an increasingly important scale, Meyer & Holler switched to an emphasis on commercial work after World War I. Integral to the company's strategy for success was the offering of architectural design services of an unusually high level of quality, which it was able to due as a result of hiring some of the finest architectural design talent available in Southern California in the 1910s and 1920s.[1]

Philip W. Holler
Born 1869
Indiana
Died 1942
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Architect
Practice Meyer & Holler
Buildings Grauman's Egyptian Theatre
Petroleum Building

Meyer and Holler[2] was founded by Gabriel S. Meyer[3] and Philip W. Holler[4] Meyer & Holler also designed and built apartment buildings, hotels, banks, and churches. A number of Meyer & Holler buildings are now on the National Register of Historic Places. Incorporated in 1906, Meyer & Holler developed into one of the largest building firms in Los Angeles before declaring bankruptcy in 1932 as an indirect result of litigation related to California’s architectural registration laws.

Associated architects and draftsmen

Selected works

Hollywood First National Bank Building

References

  1. ↑ Design-build and building efficiency in the early twentieth century United States by Alfred Willis 2003
  2. ↑ Meyer and Holler, Architects
  3. ↑ Gabriel S. Meyer
  4. ↑ Philip W. Holler
  5. ↑ Raymond M. Kennedy
  6. ↑ Donald Reuben Wilkinson
  7. ↑ Kenneth Smith Wing
  8. ↑ Mount Washington Hotel + Inn
  9. ↑ L.L. Burns Building
  10. ↑ Avis Hotel
  11. ↑ Montmartre Cafe
  12. ↑ Singer Sewing Machines (Southern California Music Company)
  13. ↑ Fox Cabrillo Theatre
  14. ↑ Moore, Charles; Becker, Peter; Campbell, Regula (1984). The City Observed: Los Angeles; A Guide to its Architecture and Landscapes (trade paperback ed.). New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House. p. 303. ISBN 0-394-72388-0.
  15. ↑ Petroleum Building
  16. ↑ Aztec Theatre
  17. ↑ Quinby Office Building
  18. ↑ First National Bank of Hollywood
  19. ↑ Hillcrest Motor Co. Building
  20. ↑ E. Clem Wilson Building
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