Ralph Carlin Flewelling

Early life

He was born on May 4, 1894 in St. Louis, Michigan. His father was Ralph Tyler Flewelling (1871-1960). 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

He 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.

He designed the Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills, California in 1928. He designed the Electric Fountain in Beverly Hills in 1931. He also designed the post office in Beverly Hills in 1932 and 1933. Later, he designed the city hall and police station in Newport Beach, California in 1949. He also designed the All Saints' Episcopal Church in Riverside, California.

He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1941.

With Walter Leland Moody

Together with Walter Leland Moody, he designed Santa Ana College located at 1530 West 17th Street in Santa Ana, California in 1947. Two years later, in 1949, they designed Paradise Canyon Elementary School located at 471 Knight Way in La Canada, California.

They designed Morningside High School located at 10500 Yukon Avenue in Inglewood, California in 1953. The following year, in 1954, they designed the Center Street School located at 700 Center Street in El Segundo, California. That year, they also designed the Del Norte School in West Covina, California. A year later, in 1955, they designed the Hawthorne High School in Hawthorne, California.

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.

Personal life

He married twice, first in 1925 and then in 1951. He had a child in 1956. He died on December 30, 1975 in Los Angeles County, California.