Abraham Wesley Eager

Abraham Wesley Eager (1864–1930) was a Canadian-American architect.

He was born in 1864 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He moved to California in 1887 and settled in Los Angeles, California in 1901.

He designed the Auditorium in Torrance, California, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Together with Sumner Hunt (1865-1938) and Silas Reese Burns (1855-1940), he designed the private residence of William G. Kerckhoff located at 1325 West Adams Boulevard, Exposition Park, Los Angeles in 1908-1909. It is now home to the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. In 1908, they designed the Hope Ranch Country Club in Hope Ranch, California. The same year, they designed a mansion at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Westmoreland Avenue, opposite the Bullocks Wilshire building. A year later, in 1909, they designed a Tudor Revival mansion for Arthur S. Bent (1863-1939), a building contractor, in Pasadena, California. (Actually the Bent House was built in 1904, at the end of Avenue 49, overlooking the Arroyo Seco, in Highland Park. The house actually has a Modernist massing to it that the late Martin Wiel noted as an early example of Austrian Secessionism. In 1903, the Builder and Contractor had reported that A. Wesley Eager had recently returned from a European trip where he had studied some of the new trends in architecture. The house is listed as Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument No. 482. The house was given an architectural award in 1910 and the catalog for that award incorrectly stated that the house was built in 1909.)

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