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Preliminary Sketch of Structure by Architects John C. Austin and Fred M. Ashley

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PRELIMINARY SKETCHES: Caltech physicist Edward Kurth created the preliminary plans for the observatory before architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley were hired to draw up the final design. The preliminary sketches were approved by the board and the architects were nearing completion on the working plans in January 1932, according to the Los Angeles Times. But the exterior walls of terra cotta tile included in the initial designs were changed in favor of thicker concrete walls in the wake of seismic concerns after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.