Judson Studios
- Architect
- Train & Williams
- Year
- 1890
- Style
- Shingle Style
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Judson Studios, a stained-glass fine arts studio, was founded in the mid-1890s in downtown Los Angeles's Mott Alley by English-born artist William Lees Judson and his three sons. It moved to its current Shingle-style building, designed by Train & Williams, in the Garvanza section of Highland Park in 1920, and remains a family-run business there today.
the building
William Lees Judson. Judson was born in Manchester, England in 1842, served four years with Illinois volunteers in the Civil War, studied art in New York and Paris, and worked as a portrait painter and teacher in London, Ontario before ill health brought him to Los Angeles in 1893, where he settled along the Arroyo Seco in Garvanza.
the style
The studio building is a well-preserved example of the Shingle style, its shingled cladding and informal massing typical of the craft-oriented architecture of the era.
More on Shingle Stylesignificance
The Judson Studios building was named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1969 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
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- Smith Estate
- Masonic Temple (Highland Park)
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