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JOHN PORTER CLARK (1905-1991)
Clark was born in Pasadena CA. He trained at Cornell then moved back to Pasadena to work with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind and also Albert Frey starting around 1935. Frey left and returned from NY to Palm Springs in 1939 to form a firm with Clark which lasted nearly twenty years. At the end of WWII Palm Springs' population almost tripled as an escape for Hollywood and a winter haven for east coast industrialists. The city became a resort community and Clark and Frey capitalized on this growth. Clark's best-known projects were collaborations with Frey on Palm Springs City Hall, Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, and Desert Hospital. He was the lead designer on Frey's Hamrick House, Welwood Murray Memorial Library, and the Church of St. Paul in the Desert. After his split with Frey in 1956 he went on to design the Palm Springs Police Department, the Cabazon Library, Palm Springs Health Center, and several schools.
The definitive book is Complete Works of John Porter Clark by Luke Leuschner.
1935 - The H. U. (Harry) Brandenstein Study, 287 East Morongo Road, Palm Springs CA. Clark designed the main house. Albert Frey designed an outdoor two room study away from the main house for privacy. Sold to Praeneste. Sold to Harold Bell. Sold to Steve Schmitt. Sold in 2021 to Ruby 27.
1933 - The Chalton Powers House, 1025 East Granvia Valmonte, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Demolished or heavily altered. Unspecified additions in 1934, 1937 and 1940.
1933 - The Taggart Studio, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Status unknown. Attribution and location need confirmation.
1934 - The Rufus Chapman House, 276 East Granvia Valmonte, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Status unknown. Address needs confirmation.
1934 - The William F. Seaton House, 475 East Valmonte Sur, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Status unknown. Address needs confirmation.
1934 - The Ball House, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Status unknown. No address recorded. Needs further research.
1935 - The Alger Shelden House, 1400 South Calle de Maria, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Sold in 2018 to Sally Julien and Peter Loforte.
1936 - The Francis Crocker Renovation, 330 West Arenas Road, Palm Springs CA. Crocker had a small adobe house on the property built in the early 1910s designed by Lucien Hood III. Additions and changes to that house were done over the years according to the Palm Springs paper in 1998 when the property was sold as part of the Casa Cody development next door. Became part of the Casa Cody Inn.
1936 - The William Raymond House, 1387 East San Jacinto Way, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Standing as of 2020.
1937 - The Bacon L. Cliffton House, 669 West Chino Canyon Road, Palm Springs CA. Sold in 1944 to Carl Nordell. Sold to Jerry and Nancy Korte.
1937 - The A. and Stella Rooke Bungalows, aka Casa del Camino, 1447 North Camino Norte, Palm Springs CA. Original address was 1446, but changed in 1940 with addition of a hotel building. Built by Cliff May. Sold in 1940 to Axel Linus who ran the hotel and bungalows until 1974. Sold in 1974 to a Nanu Patel. Plans in the early 1980s to rezone for low-cost housing fell through. Used as fire practice for firefighters. Main hotel building and land sold in 1983, destroyed soon after.
1937 - The Stanley Lewis House, 148 Camino Encanto, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Sold in 1949 to Ralph Wilford. Destroyed around 1990.
1937 - The Byron Farwell Beach House, Balboa CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Destroyed.
1937 - The James B. Oliver House, Las Palmas Estates, Camino del Norte Drive, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Status unknown.
1937 - The James V. (Bud) Guthrie Beach Cottage, Balboa CA. Near the yacht club. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Status unknown.
1937 - Duplex for William Mason, Palm Springs Estates #5, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Status unknown.
1937 - The A. G. Reynolds House, Tahquitz Estates, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Status unknown.
1937 - The Spencer Kellogg Jr. additions and alterations, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Status unknown.
1937 - The J. J. Kocher House, 338 West Vereda Norte, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Standing, altered. Built for physician whose brother, A. Lawrence Kocher, was Frey's partner on the 1934 Kocher-Samson Building.
1937 - The George Kreimer House I, 596 West Via Escuela, Palm Springs CA. Status unknown. Kreimer commissioned a second house in 1946.
1937 - The Katherine H. Romer House, 421 Santa Rosa Drive, Palm Springs CA. Standing as of 2020. Designed by architect Donald McMurray in a modified California ranch style; Clark supervised construction. A later article credits Romer's cousin, architect Nelson Breed, with the design of the elevations.
1937 - The Thomas M. McKenna House, Tahquitz Park Estates, Palm Springs CA. Unbuilt. Attribution needs confirmation.
1938 - The Irving T. Snyder House, 1145 Camino Mirasol, Las Palmas Estates, Palm Springs CA. Designed while working with Garrett Van Pelt and George Lind. Built by Cliff May, photo from May collection. Status unknown.
1938 - The D. C. Kok House, Palm Springs CA. Likely unbuilt.
1938 - The George W. La Fayette House, 749 North Calle Marcus, Palm Springs CA. Standing as of 2020.
1938 - The Roland Walton House, 480 West Via Sol, Palm Springs CA. Standing, heavily altered.
1938 - The Wright Ludington House, 385 Alta Vista, Palm Springs CA. Additions by Clark in 1940, 1941 and 1963. Albert Frey later added the guest house in 1950 and further additions for Louis Benoist and subsequent owners, including a second-story addition in 1989 for Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel. Published in Architecture, February 1939, and Sunset, March 1941.
1940 - The John Porter Clark House, 1200 East Paseo El Mirador, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Deeded to Stanley Clark. Photos by Fritz Block.
1940 - The John and Francine Hamrick Speculative House, 926 West Panorama Road, Palm Springs CA. Sold in 1950 to B. C. Adams. Sold in 1953 to Fred Albertson. Sold in 2010 to Robert and Melissa Sutton. Photos by Michael Locke.
1940 - The B.G. Morris House, Indio, CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Status unknown. Needs further research.
1940 - The W. F. Prisk House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt.
1940 - The W. H. Thompson House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt.
1941 - The Richard H. Knight House, Smoke Tree Ranch, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020.
1942 - The John and Fannie Hamrick House, 875 West Chino Canyon Road, Palm Springs CA. Published in California Pictorial, Spring 1942. Remodeled in 1958 by Arthur Elrod. Sold in 2005 to Mark Puopolo and Christopher Mullen. Designated a Palm Springs Historical Site in 2006 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Available for lease. Top photo by Michael Locke.
1942 - The Paul Hampton Dougherty House, 1860 North Vista Drive, Palm Springs CA. Built by contractor Alva Hicks. Dougherty was a famous seascape painter. Sold in 1953 to William and Marjorie Edris. Sold in 1964 to Warren Magnuson, a senator from Washington state. Sold to Jay Morton. Sold in 2012 to Michael Fleming and Luis Lavin. Designated a Palm Springs Historic Site in 2014. Photo by Michael Locke.
1942 - The Roy A. Lee House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt.
1944 - The T. P. Shupe House, Monte Vista, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Status unknown.
1945 - The Barney G. and Anna M. Johnson House, 667 East Mel Avenue, Palm Springs CA. The Johnsons operated Crystal Craig Lodge for 25 years. Barney Johnson was one of the founders of the Sportsmen's Club and one of the developers of the High Sierras. Sold in 2006 to Esther Helen Lyon. Sold in 2023 to Casa Sueno. Bottom photo by Michael Locke.
1945 - The Florian Boyd House, 216 West Vía Lola, Palm Springs CA. Addition built in 1955, architect unknown. Sold in 1997 to Thomas Michael Johnson. Sold in 2018 to Russell Iadevaia, Samuel Goodrich, and Michael Adams. Sold in 2019 to Jason Steiner.
1945 - The John Gallois House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt.
1945 - The John M. Marone House, 563 North Sunrise Way, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020. Address needs confirmation.
1945 - The John R. Moser House, 1175 Camino Mirasol, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020.
1945 - The Mark H. Hopp House, 4137 Sunny Dunes Road, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020. Address needs confirmation.
1945 - The Max A. Wyman House, Smoke Tree Ranch, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020.
1945 - The Max Hayward House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Status unknown.
1945 - The Paul E. Shreve House, 1580 North Indian, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Status unknown. Address needs confirmation.
1945 - The R. C. Adams House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt. No record of R. C. Adams in local directories until 1950, by which time he was living in a 1940 house. Likely never went beyond a concept. Not to be confused with the Frank C. Adams House on West Chino Canyon Road, which Frey designed.
1945 - The Ralph Nesmith House, 621 North Cahuilla Road, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Status unknown. Address needs confirmation.
1945 - The Roy Colegate House I, 4081 Glenwood Drive, Riverside CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020. Colegate commissioned a second house in 1950.
1945 - The S. S. Barnard House, 573 South Camino Real, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020. Address needs confirmation.
1945 - The Wade Miller House, 280 Camino Sur, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020, altered.
1946 - The Earl J. Neel House, 885 North Prescott Drive, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020.
1946 - The George Kreimer House II, 325 Marcus Road, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Status unknown. Address does not exist.
1946 - The Perry Sanders House, 360 East Avenida Olancha, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020. Permits show Sanders built at this address in 1947, matching the date in the Clark and Frey index.
1946 - The Simmons and Malnick House, Shangri-La Palms, Thousands Palms, CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt. Designed for the Shangri-La Palms development.
1947 - The George F. and Marcia Barrett House, 1323 South Driftwood Drive, Palm Springs CA. Built by Joe Pawling. Sold in 1966 to William Holden. Sold in 1977 to Eugene Grace. Sold many more times. Sold in 2017 to Mark and Jane Garrison. Top photo by Michael Locke.
1947 - The Edward H. Maggard House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt.
1947 - The Frank A. Andrews House, 475 West Vereda Norte, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Status unknown. Address needs confirmation.
1947 - The L. Rosen House, 1777 South Mesa Drive, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020, altered. Address needs confirmation.
1947 - The Maurice Holman House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt. \
1947 - The Paul Bendix House, 853 East Repplier Road, Banning CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020.
1947 - The Tillie Weisberg House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt.
1947 - The W. Wood House, Coachella/Thermal, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Status unknown.
1948 - The C. O. Barker Jr. House, 91 West Indian School Lane, Banning CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020. Address needs confirmation.
1948 - The Florence W. Albert House, Smoke Tree Ranch, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Destroyed.
1948 - The Isadore Silverman House, 245 Vereda Norte, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020, altered.
1948 - The R. M. Boudeman House, 2121 Winchell Avenue, Kalamazoo MI. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020.
1949 - The M. L. Spencer Triplex, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt.
1950 - The Hugh E. and Mary Stephens House, 645 East Morongo Road, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Photos by Michael Locke. Sold to Robert Metcalf and David Skousen. Sold in 2018 to Glenn and Judith Hudgens.
1950 - The Guy C. Rowden House, 40323 Avenida Altejo Bella, Cherry Valley CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Status unknown. Address needs confirmation.
1950 - The Roy Colegate House II, 320 Camino Sur, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020.
1950 - The Stanley Lewis House, Deep Canyon, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt. Lewis sold his 1937 Camino Encanto house in late 1950 and there is no indication he built another. Likely never went beyond a concept.
1951 - The Julian Livingston House II, 190 West San Marco Way, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020. Livingston commissioned an earlier, unbuilt house from Clark and Frey in 1947, which Frey designed. Also recorded as 2920 Puerta del Sol.
1951 - The Ruth Sougey House, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Likely unbuilt.
1951 - The Steve Vidosics Ranch House, 2001 Araby Drive, Palm Springs CA. Status unknown.
1952 - The Frank Stowell House, 1949 West Williams Street, Banning CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020.
1952 - The Val Blatz House, 443 West Merito Place, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey. Standing as of 2020.
1955 - The Edward H. (Buddy) and Carolyn Morris Renovation, 650 North Vía Miraleste, Palm Springs CA. Original house built in 1939 for Stanley and Alice Guthrie. Interiors by Arthur Elrod. Sold to Jeffrey Dunham.
1955 - The A. Peterson House, Banning, CA. Status unknown. Address needs confirmation.
1955 - The Geraldine Goodall House, 68500 San Jacinto Road, Cathedral City CA. Likely Standing as of 2020.
1956 - The Culver and Sallie Nichols House, 1120 East Paseo El Mirador, Palm Springs CA. Designed with Albert Frey and Chambers. Landscape design by Ken Nishimoto. Interiors by Arthur Elrod. Destroyed.
1965 - The Michael Nidorf House, 225 West Via Lola, Palm Springs CA. Status unknown. Address needs confirmation.
Sources include: Morris Newman; Palm Springs Modern Committee; City of Palm Springs Survey; Adele Cygelman.