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His earliest house designs (1932-1936) represent a romantic version with modern conveniences of “an ancient Mexican hacienda,” in the words of American Home magazine. SOHO’s home tour includes five of the first homes built by May: his first and second homes, the fourth (his first commission), and sixth home.
California Ranch-style modern house. Cliff May (1903–1989) [1] was a building designer (he was not licensed as an architect until the last year of his life) practicing in California best known and remembered for developing the suburban Post-war "dream home" (California Ranch House), and the Mid-century Modern.
Welcome to SOHO's online exhibit: Cliff May's First Houses 1932-1936, Recreating an Ancient Mexican Hacienda. Cliff May probably built or influenced more architecture than any other designer to ever hail from San Diego. Assembled for viewing are the homes that represent the work of Cliff May’s formative years during which he developed his signature style.
Jan 23, 2013 · Most of Cliff’s houses were built of wood and stucco with a tile or shake roof. 544-1 is designed to be built to the highest levels of LEED certification and has the large open plan most buyers want today. In Cliff’s day, fuel was cheap and you could run the AC and radiant heat 365 days a year if you wanted to.
- O’Leary House
- Cliff May Experimental House Redesigned by Marmol Radziner
- Rancho Estates
- Cliff May House Aka “Mandalay”
- The Fryman Canyon Ranch House at 1161 Valleycrest Road | Currently For Sale
May’s first hacienda – built in 1932 and known the Arthur J. and Frances O’Leary house (1932) – sold for $9,500 when its designer was only 23. I don’t know what I was doing at 23 but it wasn’t designing and building houses. How it happened was May’s future father-law-law Roy C. Lichty generously gifted May a small but sizable lot in a new subdivisi...
Cliff May married his benefactor (and developer and real estate agent’s) daughter, Jean Lichty, and designed the first of five homes designed for himself and his growing family. After building this first house in 1936 and moving in, May opened it for public visits and advertised it for sale. Fast forward to the Mid-Century Modern Era when May began...
The Lakewood Rancho Estates in Long Beach, California, was designed by architects Cliff May and Chris Choate in the 1950s for developer Ross Cortese. The historic, 700-house tract is characterized by May’s casual, ranch-style homes and exemplifies the breezy Californian character of Long Beach. Occasionally, one of these lovely homes will pop up on...
As you may know, “Mandalay” translates to “Name of a Mountain from a Holy Place” and was Burma’s cultural and religious center of Buddhism, having numerous monasteries and more than 700 pagodas. With that knowledge, it’s evident why May would choose Mandalay as the name of he and his family’s fifth and final home. I like to think May had spent 30-4...
This rare and wonderful mid-century modern ranch home was designed and built by May in 1952 in Studio City’s exclusive and verdant Fryman Canyon neighborhood. Fryman Canyon offers several great hiking trails and stunning views of both Studio City and Downtown Los Angeles. The single-story ranch home, pool, and the lush and expansive .81 acres it’s ...
Cliff May, known as 'the father of the ranch house,' was an early proponent of the California style ranch house. He first built hacienda style houses in San Diego in the 1930s, then moved to Los Angeles to create some of the most widely recognized ranch-style houses in the country. His early custom ranch houses of the 1930s follow the compact ...
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Cliff May (1909-1989) “A house doesn’t have to look modern to be modern,” Cliff May told the New York Times in 1986. Born in 1909, May was exposed early on to the design aesthetic that would influence his life’s work. His mother was a direct descendant of Jose Antonio Estudillo, a member of one of the prominent native California ...
