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James Allen Walter was an industrial designer, architectural designer, builder, and furniture designer known primarily for his modernist residential homes.

After receiving an architecture degree from ArtCenter School of Design in Los Angeles he began a practice focused primarily in the Los Angeles area, designing and building at least thirty-two modernist homes until his death in 2009.

Early Life
Walter discovered an interest in architecture while growing up in Ohio, "rearranging bales of hay up in the loft of the old tobacco barn, [I] created magic castles with hidden rooms and secret tunnels."

Selected Buildings
1964: A-Frame House, designed and built by Walter in 1964. Redesigned by Walter in the 1990s. Subsequently renovated by new owners in 2010s with many original features removed.

1965: Coughlin House (Nolden House), declared a Los Angeles Cultural Monument in 2016.

1967: Siodmak House (La Fremontia House). Extensively renovated in the 2010s with many original features removed

1971: Via del Rey House