Colcord, in good company

I read with interest your article [“A Lasting Glow Instead of Flash,” Feb. 24] regarding Gerard Colcord. My father was also a relatively unknown architect who did his main work in the 1960s and ‘70s in West Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Encino and Palos Verdes. His name was David Freedman, and he lived from 1914 to 1999. He had his own office in Beverly Hills for many years before becoming head architect for a construction firm.

His greatest talent was the interior organization of living and functional spaces, which made his homes comfortable and logical, and he was often hired to correct more renowned architects’ interior designs. I have not “tended to his legacy” as I should, but he deserves to be appreciated for the many homes, grand and modest, upon which he left his mark.

Ina Joe Scheid

Culver City

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I live in a 1934 Colcord one-story house on Comstock Avenue in Little Holmby that has a rustic exterior but an elegant interior. My parents lived in a grander, later and larger one in Bel-Air. Our ultra-livable home is very English inside but very American outside. Thanks for the affirmation of this enduring architect’s classic styling.

Susie Goldstein

Los Angeles