Silas Reese Burns
| Silas Reese Burns | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 08, 1855 Morgantown, West Virginia |
| Died | August 10, 1940 |
| Residence |
Alhambra, California San Gabriel, California (retirement) |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse(s) | Louise Devereux |
Silas Reese Burns (1855–1940) was an American architect.
He was born on April 8, 1855 in Morgantown, West Virginia. He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1882. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1875.
Together with Myron Hunt (1868–1952), John B. Parkinson (1861–1935), and Sumner Hunt (1865–1938), he designed the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena, California in 1903-1904, which was destroyed by a fire in 1914. Alongside George Wyman (1860–1939), he designed the Old Soldiers' Home in Sawtelle, Los Angeles.
Together with Sumner Hunt and Abraham Wesley Eager (1864–1930), he designed the private residence of William G. Kerckhoff located at 1325 West Adams Boulevard, Exposition Park, Los Angeles in 1908 and 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.
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