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Sep 18, 2024 · Description. His second house for his family, Cliff May house 2, was built in Mandeville Canyon. This area of west Los Angeles would remain the epicenter of May’s work and life for the rest of his long career. The wings of Cliff May house 2 enclose the outdoor living space. The street façade is straightforwardly modest and gives no hint of ...
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.
Cliff May: Lindstrom house (San Diego, Calif.) Cliff May built his first speculative house in Talmadge Park in 1931, and his second in 1933, bought by Captain William Lindstrom. The Lindstrom house and furniture cost $7,710.42 to build. The $1,636.65 profit was split evenly between Cliff May and….
- 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 ...
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.
Designer Cliff May made his name and fortune in Los Angeles, but it was his San Diego roots and upbringing that made the man. A sixth-generation San Diegan, May (1908-1989) was the son of Beatrice Magee and Charles Clifford May. His mother came from the Estudillo and de Pedroreña families, who played a prominent role in California history under Spanish, Mexican and American rule.
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Alphus House, Photographer Not Known. Cliff May was born in San Diego in 1908. As a young man, May built Monterey-style furniture before, in 1931, he began his work as a designer/builder in San Diego and La Jolla. May moved to Los Angeles in 1936, where he expanded his design work into development. By 1941, he had established a national ...
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