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Photo, Print, Drawing Sam & Alfreda Maloof Compound, 9553 Highland Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino County, CA

[ Drawings from Survey HABS CA-2708  ]

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[ Data Pages from Survey HABS CA-2708  ]

About this Item

Title

  • Sam & Alfreda Maloof Compound, 9553 Highland Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino County, CA

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Maloof, Sam
  • Maloof, Alfreda Ward
  • Maul, David, transmitter
  • San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, sponsor
  • Thirtieth Street Architects, Inc., contractor
  • Ivy Landscape Architects, Inc., contractor
  • Hernandez, Kroone & Associates, contractor
  • Positive Image Photographic Services, contractor
  • Olmos, Tavo, photographer
  • Hartig, Anthea M., historian

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  woodworking
  • -  furniture industry
  • -  California--San Bernardino County--Rancho Cucamonga

Latitude / Longitude

  • 34.13566,-117.59632

Notes

  • -  Significance: The property is the home, shop, and studio of Sam Maloof, internationally acclaimed woodworker and furniture designer, and, until her death in late 1998, his wife and partner Alfreda Ward Maloof, a former Santa Fe Indian School Arts and Crafts Directory. Sam Maloof began making furniture on this site in then rural Alta Loma in the early 1950s and rose to prominence over the next four decades as perhaps the greatest living American woodworker. During that time, he also designed and built a house, studio, and guesthouse on the property. A number of major American museums hold his furniture in their collections and he has been the subject of many film and television productions and the subject of books and scores of articles. Sam has received numerous awards, among the most prominent being the first recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant for the Craftsman Apprentice Program (1969) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1985). In 1990, the site was determined eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria B and C, employing the rarely used exception for sites associated with living persons and under fifty years of age. Sam Maloof, his career, impressively consistent body of work and pure esthetic, and the key relationship all of this has to the environment in which he worked and continues to work, met the exception threshold like few other properties ever have. There are no other sites associated with Sam and his creative life except this property. California Department of Transportation Architectural Historians Bonnie W. Parks and Aaron A. Gallup in 1990 found it to be "unique to its builder, and the world, and ... of exceptional artistic merit."
  • -  Survey number: HABS CA-2708

Medium

  • Measured Drawing(s): 6
  • Data Page(s): 52

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS CAL,36-RANCU,3-

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • ca2796

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Sam Maloof, Alfreda Ward Maloof, Sponsor San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, Inc Thirtieth Street Architects, Inc Ivy Landscape Architects, Kroone & Associates Hernandez, Contractor Positive Image Photographic Services, and Anthea M Hartig, Olmos, Tavo, photographer. Sam & Alfreda Maloof Compound,Highland Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino County, CA. San Bernardino County California Rancho Cucamonga, 1933. translateds by Maul, Davidmitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca2796/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Maloof, S., Maloof, A. W., San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, S., Thirtieth Street Architects, I., Ivy Landscape Architects, I. [...] Hartig, A. M., Olmos, T., photographer. (1933) Sam & Alfreda Maloof Compound,Highland Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino County, CA. San Bernardino County California Rancho Cucamonga, 1933. Maul, D., trans Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca2796/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al., photographer by Olmos, Tavo. Sam & Alfreda Maloof Compound,Highland Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino County, CA. trans by Maul, Davidmitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca2796/>.