Hometown Hero: John Byers, Santa Monica Architect

28 January 2012, 6:47 am

John Winford Byers, Santa Monica’s most important architect and builder in the period between WWI and WWII, told the Los Angeles Times on May 17, 1931, “Buildings of adobe are replete with a delicate and elusive charm and there is an easy plasticity about the material that makes it particularly suitable to the Spanish or California type of architecture.” Byers was noted for his work with adobe ...... Read More »

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