Frederick Earl Emmons

Frederick Earl Emmons
Born	December 19, 1907 New York, U.S.
Died	August 23, 1999 Belvedere, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Cornell University
Occupation	Architect

Frederick Earl Emmons (December 19, 1907 - August 23, 1999) was an award-winning American architect. With A. Quincy Jones, he designed many residential properties, including tract houses developed by Joseph Eichler in the Pacific Palisades, Orange, Palo Alto, San Rafael, and commercial buildings in Palm Springs, Pomona, Whittier and Los Angeles. They also designed the Charles E. Young Research Library on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Frederick Earl Emmons was born on December 19, 1907 in New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1929.

Emmons began his career by working as a draughtsman for McKim, Mead & White in 1930-1932. He worked for architect William Wurster from 1938 to 1939, and for Allied Engineers from 1940 to 1942. He served in the United States Navy Reserve from 1942 to 1946. By 1946, he started his own architectural practice in Los Angeles.

Emmons opened an architectural practice with A. Quincy Jones in 1950. The first year, they designed the Sascha Brastoff Ceramics Factory located at 11520 West Olympic Boulevard in Downtown Los Angeles, the Brody House in the Pacific Palisades, the Romanoff's on the Rocks Restaurant on Highway 111 in Palm Springs, and the King Cole Market and Shopping Center in Whittier. By 1952, they designed the Southdown Estates Houses at 16310 Akron Street in the Pacific Palisades. They also designed the Nicholas P. Daphne Funeral Home located at 1 Church street in San Francisco, California in 1952-1953; it was demolished in 2000. They designed the Hugheston Meadows Housing Tract, which won an Award of Merit from the National Association of Home Builders in 1953. In 1954, they designed the Huberland House at 16060 Royal Oaks Road in Encino in 1954, and the Building Contractors' Association Building in Pomona.

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