Architect.   Hunt, who graduated with a B.S. in Architecture from MIT in 1893, spent three years in Europe before returning to Chicago where he obtained a position as a draftsman for the local offices of a national architectural firm.  He moved to Los Angeles in 1903 where he formed a partnership with architect Elmer Grey, opening an office in Pasadena. The firm of Hunt and Grey soon became busy building expensive houses throughout Southern California, including the summer ranch home for cereal magnate Will Kellogg.  Hunt began receiving commissions to design larger commercial projects, such as hospitals, schools, churches and hotels, which included the Throop Institute in Pasadena, which would later become the California Institute of Technology.  In 1909, they designed Henry Huntington’s house in San Marino which is now the Huntington Library and in 1911, the duo began plans for the new campus of Occidental College in the Eagle Rock community of Los Angeles, with Hunt becoming the principal architect of all of Occidental’s buildings through 1940.  The partners designed a new wing for the Mission Inn in Riverside and provided designs for the remodeling, expansion, or construction of a number of other hotels, including their largest project, the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, which opened in 1921. Other Pasadena landmarks designed by Hunt are the Rose Bowl and the City Hall.  By 1912, Hunt who was no longer in partnership with Grey, had established a new firm with Los Angeles architect Harold C. Chambers.  Hunt went on to design a number of California libraries, including those in Redlands, Palos Verdes Estates, Santa Barbara, and most notably the main library of Pasadena, one of the three major civic buildings making up the Pasadena Civic Center. Hunt went on to design some 200 other landmark structures before his death in 1952. (bio by: Louis M.)