Peninsula Mediterranean – Walter Swindell Davis was the Southern California apostle of Mediterranean architecture
by Stephanie Cartozian A “quiet publicity hound” is how Charles Muncaster, himself an architect, described his grandfather Walter Swindell Davis, the brilliant, but ironically, lesser known of the Peninsula’s celebrated mid-20th century architects, who included Kirtland Cutter, Myron Hunt, and Lloyd Wright. Davis designed La Venta Inn, St. Francis Episcopal Church, the Point Vicente Lighthouse […]