Frank K Benchley
American
Architect - AsNotedIn
Architect - AsNotedIn
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
Architect | Farmers and Merchants Bank of Fullerton | Fullerton, CA | |||||
Architect | Masonic Temple | Fullerton, CA | |||||
1910/00/00 | Fred Fritz commissions architect Frank Benchly, who only lived in Portland from c 1910-12, to design the Villa St Clara. | Architect | Villa St Clara Apartments | Portland | |||
1918/00/00 | Despite having a wife and small daughter, Benchley volunteers for military service in World War I. | Military | |||||
1920/00/00 | Benchley designs modest homes for middle-class families: 126 and 224 W Malvern Ave, 438 E Chapman Ave and 128, 132, 137 Brookdale Pl. | Architect | |||||
1920/00/00 | Benchley develops a reputation for designing elegant, stately homes, including a Mission Revival residence for Mayor Richard S Gregory (130 Hillcrest Dr) and a similarly styled home for school administrator Anita Shepardson (155 Hillcrest Dr). | Architect | |||||
1920/00/00 | Benchley completes elaborate and extravagant residences in Anaheim, Placentia and Santa Ana. Working with LA architect Alfred F Priest on a percentage basis, Benchley builds Charles Wagner House on E Yorba Linda Blvd in Placentia for $22,500. | Architect | Charles Wagner House, Placentia | Placentia, CA | |||
1921/00/00 | Architect | Muckenthaler House | Fullerton, CA | ||||
1925/00/00 | Designed by F Benchley, a stylish Pueblo Revival dwelling is completed for Charles Boege, Anaheim City Treasurer and VP of the First National Bank. At a cost $8,000, the Boege residence is one of the city's most expensive. | Architect | Charles Boege Residence, Anaheim | Anaheim, CA | |||
1927/01/18 | Frank Benchley is elected to the Los Angeles Stock Exchange (LASE), establishing a brokerage firm, Wagy and Benchley, with his brother-in-law, Wallace P Wagy who had worked as an assistant in his uncle's dishonest brokerage firm, A C Wagy and Company. | Work | |||||
1929/10/08 | Shareholders, hoping to recoup their lost money, file a $12 million lawsuit against the Los Angeles Stock Exchange and 46 brokers, including Wallace Wagy and Frank Benchley. Only $374,000 will be recovered. | Defendant | Julian Petroleum Scandal |
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