John B. Parkinson

United States of America
United States of America
Year of Birth1861

Biography

American architect John Parkinson participated with his son Donald at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. John was born in England and immigrated to the United States when he was 21-years-old. He first settled in North America and built fences and learned stair building. He then returned home to England for a short stage, but came back to the US, then moving to Seattle and later to California. The firm Parkinson and Parkinson was based in Los Angeles, California and was founded in 1920, and was responsible for designing many of Los Angeles’ finest buildings, which became some of the city’s most enduring landmarks, including LA City Hall and the Coliseum, Union Station and Bullocks Wilshire, the most complete design of art deco in the US.

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