In the seven short years wunderkind architectural draftsman Milo Berenson worked in Santa Ana, he helped develop the look, feel, and identity of the city. He did so not with a handful of great civic structures and mansions, but with many budget-minded yet charismatic and distinctly Californian buildings, including medical offices, retail spaces, and apartments. Most of his identified works were in the then-popular Spanish Colonial Revival style, which he said required “deep arches, handmade tiles, exposed beam embarkages, as well as much open space between buildings.”
Berenson left his mark throughout the coastal counties of Southern California. But it’s in Santa Ana where enough of his buildings were built (and survived) that they still, collectively, add significant architectural personality to the city. There are locals who have admired these scattered, unheralded gems for decades without realizing they were all designed by one man.
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| Chimney from the Beissel Medical Building (Milo Berenson, 1930), Santa Ana |
Milo Loren Berenson was born on Aug. 17, 1905, in Salida, Colorado. His father, Samuel William Berenson, was born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania, and was a tailor, cobbler, and shoe seller. Milo’s mother, Frances C. “Fannie” (Mankuss) Berenson, was a native of Leadville, Colorado. Milo had two younger brothers, Jerome (later a judge in Ventura County) and Sanford. In his youth, Milo was a Boy Scout and delivered newspapers in Salida.
When Milo was in his teens, around 1917, the family moved briefly to Fernwood, Pennsylvania before then moving to La Jolla, California around 1919. Milo attended Lincoln Grammar School, was confirmed at San Diego’s Temple Beth Israel in 1921, and graduated from San Diego High School in 1924. The high school was on the southern edge of Balboa Park, where the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 had recently given birth to the wildly popular Spanish Colonial Revival style of architecture.
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| From the 1924 San Diego High School annual |
La Jolla was an unlikely choice for the Berensons. Although La Jolla is now the most densely Jewish area in San Diego, in the early 20th century it was known for its antisemitism, earning it the nickname “La Goy-a.” Most of La Jolla kept Jews out with restrictive covenants. Nonetheless, the Berensons found a way to make it their home.
While in high school, Milo was a well-rounded honor roll student. He was in the Art Club, was Assistant Art Editor of the semi-annual and was on the staff of the annual (yearbook). He sang in the Boy's Glee Club and the Hi Y Club and played baseball and basketball. He also played the drums – a skill he would use off and on throughout his life.
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| The formal gardens at Balboa Park, San Diego, circa 1920s |
But it was in his architecture classes where his life took a sharp turn. He quickly decided he wanted to be an architect, and he learned all he could on the subject. While still in school, he submitted a set of house plans he'd drawn to a
San Diego Union (newspaper) contest and won. The plans were then used to build a house in the “cave neighborhood” of La Jolla.
In June of 1922, the La Jolla newspapers announced that Berenson had been selected for an architecture internship. He was selected over many older applicants. Soon, he was working on perspective drawings and renderings with established San Diego architect Theodore C. Kistner. (Kistner's work included Anaheim's third City Hall, built in 1923.)
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| Classified ad from the La Jolla Journal, 3-23-1923. |
In less than a year, Berenson was also taking on projects all his own, including a seven-room home for a Mrs. Root of La Jolla, who planned to use the design for her property in Kansas. By now, the local newspapers were heralding Berenson as “a promising young local architect.”
When he graduated from high school in 1924, Berenson’s plan was to go on to the University of Pennsylvania. But another opportunity arose that he couldn’t pass up. He was offered a position in the drafting and designing department at the office of one of the most important architects in Los Angeles, Albert C. Martin, Sr. It was a chance to not only apply his talent and knowledge, but also learn first-hand, on the job, at a top-flight architectural firm. He took the job, moved to Los Angeles at age 19, and found himself involved in such important projects as the new (post-earthquake) St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara, and in Los Angeles, Queen of Angels Hospital and an expansion of California Lutheran Hospital.
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| Sadie Singer in the 1923 Santa Ana High School Arial yearbook. |
It appears he was still associated with Martin’s firm when he started splitting his time between Los Angeles and Santa Ana in 1925. First of all, Milo's girlfriend, Sadie (a.k.a. Sadye) Singer, lived in Santa Ana. Along the way, he must have also noticed that the Santa Ana was growing rapidly – economically, physically, and culturally – and was a good place to do business.
One of Berenson’s first big Santa Ana commissions was a medical building on West 3rd Street for well-known local optometrist, Dr. Roy S. Horton. When completed, the Santa Ana Register called Horton's building "one of the most attractive business structures in Orange County.” The Register continued: “The entire building is of the Spanish style of architecture and holds the charm of old Spain within its confines. Milo Berenson, who drew the plans, has been successful in his efforts to feature the comfort and beauty of the villa in the structure."
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| The Horton Building, Santa Ana, March 1929. |
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| The Horton Building, Santa Ana, April 2025. (Photo by author) |
Dr. Horton’s building had maple floors and was decorated with "San Gabriel Mission furniture" and Mexican pottery. The complex included a roof garden and a sun porch. It included a ground-level garden as well, featuring flowers, cactus, Joshua trees, ocotillo, a fountain, a fishpond, and garden gnomes with their own little stone houses -- all the work of Dr. Horton himself.
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| Horton Building, 2025 (Photo by author) |
Horton’s appreciation for Mexican-style décor, Spanish-themed buildings, and a Jewish architect is a bit surprising when you consider that aside from being an optometrist, a Mason, a Santa Ana School Board member, and a member of the Santiago Rifle Club, he was also the Grand Exalted Cyclops (top leader) of the local Ku Klux Klan.
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| Dr. Roy Horton, 1923 (Register, 5-10-1923). The public learned of his Klan involvement in March 1924. |
In June 1926, Milo Berenson married Sadie in Santa Ana. They planned to live in Los Angeles after the wedding but instead lived at 206 North Main Street. Two years later, he hung out his own shingle. In one of the few modern references to Berenson’s work, architectural historian Leslie Heumann described his career as it stood at that point: “…An architectural draftsman who worked for various Santa Ana architects, including Frank Lansdown and Fay R. Spangler.”
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| Sadie and Milo's wedding photo, 1926 (Courtesy Susan Klug) |
In the spring of 1928, Berenson took on a rare (for him) single-family residential project for Mrs. Ora A. Spicer. It was at 2348 North Park Blvd., in Santa Ana’s North Broadway Park tract. For this project, he partnered with local architect, W. W. Kays. Neighborhood lore says the initial design was done and construction commenced under “the architect who designed Bowers Museum” (Frank Lansdown and W. Horace Austin), but that Spicer kept submitting change orders on the fly, leading the original architect(s) to throw in the towel. This left an opening for Berenson and Kays to finish the job. This “hand-off” may explain why this is the only Italianate building yet identified among Berenson’s projects.
Ora Spicer was the widow of Charles Spicer, the proprietor of a popular dry good store. The Spicers were well-known and active in civic affairs. In 2005, Heumann wrote, “The Spicer House has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places… [and] has been listed in the California Register [of Historical Property]. It also qualifies for a listing in [the City of] Santa Ana’s Register of Historical Property.” She went on to describe its “Renaissance inspired” design, “with its block-like massing, hipped roof, and graceful entry. …Additionally, the house has been categorized as [a] ‘Landmark’…”
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| The Ora Spicer House, Santa Ana (Photo by author, 2025) |
At a meeting of the Santa Ana Junior Chamber of Commerce in May 1928, Berenson presented a proposal for a 30,000-seat stadium/amphitheater, to be built "on the old reservoir site." He displayed drawings. The Jaycees liked the plan and pitched it at meetings of various Santa Ana service clubs.
The site for the proposed stadium had once been a brickyard, but in 1917 the city had turned it into a covered reservoir and pumping station. The reservoir was decommissioned in 1924, leaving a largely unused piece of land on the edge of downtown. The first wooden iteration of the Santa Ana Bowl – later modernized and called “Eddie West Field / Santa Ana Stadium” – was built at this site in early 1930 under the direction of City Engineer Clyde Jenken. Berenson’s notion to repurpose the existing sunken form of the reservoir as a stadium “bowl” was realized, if only at the most basic level. Berenson never got to lead the project, but he remained involved. Moreover, people remembered that he’d been the source of stadium concept.
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| The Santa Ana Bowl as initially planned (Santa Ana Register, 4-19-1932) |
Later, when the first in a series of proposed expansions to the stadium was underway in 1932, a drawing of the imagined final product appeared on the front page of the
Register. The image’s caption credits Berenson, William L. Faulkner (soon to be a busy local architect in his own right), and Anaheim’s Everett E. Parks (founding president of the Orange County Chapter of the American Institute of Architects) with the design. However, only Parks was credited with the title “architect.” In any case, the elaborate expansions of the Santa Ana Bowl were never completed as depicted. Nonetheless, the venue has been a beloved and functional fixture of Santa Ana ever since.
In those days, professional men made themselves known in the community through their active membership in service, business, and fraternal organizations. With his stadium concept, Berenson had hit a homerun (or perhaps scored a touchdown) with all those groups at once. Over the next few years, that good impression would help boost his career.
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| Santa Ana Bowl, 1960, in much its original form. (Courtesy USC) |
By August 1928, he was drawing plans for alterations to Henry Schaffert's clothing store on N. Glassell Street in Orange. On November 1st, he drew attention to himself in a somewhat less professional way: Clog dancing before 100 fellow members of the Santa Ana Breakfast Club at St. Ann’s Inn. He made himself visible in the community.
Milo and Sadie welcomed their first child, Bertram Melvin Berenson, into the world on December 10, 1928. At the time of his birth, the family lived in a bungalow duplex at 435 S. Ross Street.
Starting in the 1950s, Bertram would become an award-winning architect, a professor of architecture, dean of architecture and art at the University of Illinois Chicago, and then dean of the College of Design, Architecture & Art the University of Cincinnati. He became a pioneer in designing buildings that included barrier-free access for the handicapped.
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| Newspaper ad referencing Berenson's new office (Register, 4-20-1929) |
In April 1929, Milo Berenson opened an office in Room 216 of Santa Ana’s brand-new Builders Exchange Building on the 200 block of North Main Street. Along with the Builders' Exchange office itself, the other original tenants in the building included contractors Concliffe and Sorenson, the Honer Brothers, the Farwell Brothers, William Rohrbacher, and Walter F. Sorenson. Other tenants included Southern California Edison; Walter Cook and Walter Tuback, real estate brokers; C. A. Landsdown, architect and builder; Harry C. Westover, attorney; the Crane Co., plumbing supplies; Charles F. Carlson, plumbing contractor; and the Orange County Lumbermen's Club. It was one-stop shopping for anyone who wanted a new building designed and constructed in Orange County.
Now the work was really rolling in for Berenson.
He designed the beautiful La Hacienda Apartments at 1418-1420 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, which were completed in September 1929 for Harry M. Smith. This Spanish Colonial revival building still stands and includes a patio, towers, and exterior stairways.
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| La Hacienda Apartments (1929), 1420 N. Broadway, Santa Ana (Photo from 2025) |
That same year, Berenson also designed the H. F. Stewart Drive-In market and drugstore (with apartments above) for E. E. Remsberg. It was something akin to the revolutionary Chapman Building in Los Angeles. Construction by the Honer Brothers was completed February 30, 1930, and it stood on the northeast corner of North Main and 17th Streets in Santa Ana.
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| Early design for Stewart Drive-In Market (Register, 3-2-1929) |
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| Later design for Stewart Drive-In Market (Register, 7-18-1929) |
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| Stewart Drive-In Market in 1931. Owned by P. E. Strond (Courtesy O.C. Archives) |
During 1929-1930, he also designed the Washington Cleaners & Dyers Co. for Warren Amos at 1109 North Main Street, Santa Ana -- the site of the old Vandermast home. It still stands today with a restored exterior and an interior adaptively reused as part of the Orange County School of the Arts. Around the same time, he designed a heated, 45 X 125-foot, reinforced concrete plunge and grandstand for Ray Burlingame's Balboa Beach Amusement Co. in Balboa.
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| Washington Cleaners concept art. (Register, 11-24-1929) |
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| Washington Cleaners building (now OCSA), Santa Ana, April 2025. |
Berenson also remodeled the old McFadden Market into the Arcade Building on North Main between 5th and 6th Streets. He gave it an entirely new Spanish Colonial Revival façade, which remains an iconic and attractive piece of downtown Santa Ana today.
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| Arcade Building, Santa Ana, circa 1937 (Courtesy L.A. Public Library) |
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| Arcade Building, Santa Ana, April 2025 (Photo by author) |
June 1930 saw the grand opening of the Flood Building at the northeast corner of 10th Street. and Broadway in Santa Ana. Berenson designed this medical building for dentist Dr. Will A. Flood and his associate, Dr. McKenzie, with additional offices leased to other medical professionals. This building no longer stands.
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| Berenson's illustration of the planned Flood Building, Santa Ana (Register, 3-23-1930) |
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| The Flood Building, Santa Ana, circa 1937. |
In the fall of 1930, Berenson designed a dog and cat hospital for Dr. Norris D. Cash at 1614 South Main Street, Santa Ana. It featured whitewashed brick construction. It remained a veterinary office into the early 2000s and even retained its original cactus landscaping until then, but is now a Hertz Car Rental office.
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| Concept art for Cash Dog and Cat Hospital, Santa Ana (Register, 9-7-1930) |
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| Cash Dog and Cat Hospital, 2025 (Photo by author) |
That autumn also saw the first of Berenson’s Automobile Club of Southern California offices. On October 9, 1930, building permits were pulled by A. Dorsey Clayton for the construction of a new Auto Club office building at the site of the Clayton family home, 717 and 719 North Main Street, Santa Ana. Berenson designed the Spanish Colonial Revival building, which was built by Barrows Construction Co. As arranged prior to construction, the Auto Club was the building’s primary tenant.
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| Auto Club office, Santa Ana, 1933. |
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| Former Auto Club office building, Santa Ana, 2025 (Photo by author) |
The Auto Club remained at 719 North Main until at least 1941. Afterward, the building served many historically notable purposes, from future Congressman James B. Utt’s real estate office, to the Orange County National Farm Loan Association (part of the Farm Credit Associations), to a number of restaurants, to the first Orange County Legal Aid Society office, and most recently to Country Garden Caterers. In November 1961 much of the exterior brick was plastered-over and painted – changes that would later be reversed, but not without damage to the brick. In late 1972, the façade was further altered with the addition of decorative tile. The building underwent seismic rehabilitation in 1984.
In November 1930, Berenson prepared plans for another new medical building, again in Spanish Colonial Revival style. The site was at 215 South Main Street, Santa Ana, and his client was P. G. Beissel of the Home Mutual Building & Loan Association. The design was purposely similar to that of an office building across the street, at about 218 S. Main, which Berenson had also designed. More recently, this medical building has been used as an appliance store, and the office building as storage for Murray's Hardware.
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| Beissel Medical Building, Santa Ana (Photo by author, 2025) |
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| Window from the Beissel Medical Building. |
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| Berenson-designed building across Main Street from the Beissel Building. |
The Berensons’ second child, Shirley Ann, was born in Santa Ana in January 1931.
In the 1932 Orange County Directory, Milo Berenson is listed as a builder rather than an architect. Although in practice, he was still doing architectural work, this may have been an early sign of an intended shift in his career path.
That same year, Berenson and Anaheim architect Everett E. Parks designed another brick Auto Club building – with additional space for medical offices – on Los Angeles Street (now Anaheim Blvd) at Sycamore Street in Anaheim. As with the Santa Ana office, the Auto Club had worked out a deal with the landowner – in this case J. S. Flour – to have the offices built and then leased to the Club. In this case, the construction was done by the Flour Construction Co. (now the Flour Corporation). Today, the front portion of that building has been modified and houses a pet grooming business. Much of the exterior remains relatively untouched, and original interior features like the lobby fireplace and exposed beams around the doors can still be seen.
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| Illustration of the Auto Club's planned Anaheim office. (Anaheim Bulletin, 4-9-1932) |
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| The new Auto Club office in Anaheim, early 1930s. (Courtesy Anaheim Heritage Center) |
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| The old Anaheim Auto Club building in 2025. (Photo by author) |
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| Fireplace in lobby of Auto Club building, Anaheim, 2025. (Courtesy Stephanie George) |
By June of 1932, construction was underway on a Spanish Colonial Revival dental office building at 108 East 15th Street, (on the southeast corner of Main and 15th), in Santa Ana. Berenson was not only the architect but also supervised contractor V. J. Anderson during its construction. It was to be the office for Dr. Frederick W. Dean. A special room for child patients was included, featuring a doll house, a small dental chair, and a mural of clowns. The building no longer stands.
Berenson gradually shifted into doing more work as a contractor, and moved the family back to the San Diego area where his parents and brother Jerome still lived. Milo and Sadie Berenson do not appear in the 1933 Orange County Directory, suggesting that they were gone from Santa Ana by the end of 1932.
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| Concept art for Dr. Dean's dental office, 108 E. 15th St, Santa Ana (Register, 5-29-1932) |
Berenson’s reasons for trying to progressively shift away from architectural design and into building, developing, (and eventually retail property ownership,) are not recorded. However, over time, it was becoming accepted that those designing buildings should have a degree in architecture, not just a lot of experience. Perhaps more importantly, Berenson had discovered that most everyone else in the real estate development business made more money than the architects. By 1932, the Great Depression had settled into Orange County in earnest. With yet another mouth to feed, money had to have been a consideration.
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| A bad 1935 newspaper cut of Berenson (San Diego Sun, 7-11-1935) |
But the transition didn’t happen overnight. By 1935 he was still a well-regarded architect in San Diego. July of that year saw the grand opening of a Thrifty Market at 12th and E Streets in San Diego, designed by Berenson. (Now gone.) An article in the San Diego Sun stated he had "designed several of the important markets in Los Angeles for Continental Stores [which operated the grocery department for Thrifty], and many drive-in types of markets." The new store was "built of steel and stucco, designed ...to withstand fire and earthquake, the market is a model of safety, it is said. Seventy-five thousand pounds of steel have gone into the construction. Concrete floors have been hardened by a special process."
In 1937 Berenson was called upon to design another Spanish Colonial Revival Auto Club office – this time at 4th Avenue and Hawthorne Street in San Diego. The building was owned by Dr. Thomas C. Burger and long-term leased to the Auto Club. It was demolished in 2022.
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| Automobile Club of Southern California office, San Diego, circa 1940. |
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| Automobile Club of Southern California office, San Diego, circa 2020. |
By summer 1937, Berenson had also completed the design of the art deco-styled Time Market, on 12th Avenue at G Street in San Diego. And in 1938 he designed the sixth branch of Bay City Liquor, located at 1333 Orange Avenue, on Coronado Island.
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| Time Market, San Diego, 1937 (Courtesy San Diego History Center) |
Around 1949 he designed the Norman-style home of Attorney Ben Nordman, at 507 Roderick Avenue, in Oxnard, California. Built with brick and stucco, it was reminiscent of the earlier Flood Building. After this project, it seems Berenson only revisited architectural practice under very rare and special circumstances. By now he had other fish to fry. He was taking more projects as a general contractor or developer, he was co-owner of a tourist court (motel) on San Diego’s Cajon Blvd, and in December 1949 he was elected to the board of directors of Tifereth Israel synagogue.
In 1950 he acted as general contractor for the construction of the La Jolla Racquet Club. Ironically, at the beginning of his career he wouldn’t have been allowed on the property of such a top tier La Jolla club.
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| Ben Nordman Home, Oxnard, circa 1949. |
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| Ben Nordman Home, Oxnard, 2011. |
Throughout the 1950s, Berenson was primarily known as a contractor and real estate developer. His clients included Pan Am Airways. But in 1953, it seems he revisited his architectural roots one last time. According to the Southwestern Jewish Press, the large new community center for Tifereth Israel, at 30th Street and Howard in San Diego – built to support the existing Tifereth Israel synagogue – was “designed in the office of Milo Berenson.”
There is also a piece of unsubstantiated lore from this period. USModernist.org’s entry on “The Dean of African American Architects, Paul R. Williams,” states that Williams designed the 1952 “Milo Berenson House” in La Jolla. This information does not match up with any other sources available. And it would be odd for Berenson not to design his own custom home. Perhaps Berenson was hired to build a client’s home based on Williams’ plans. Or maybe the project was cancelled. It’s hard to say, but the suggested connection to this legendary Los Angeles architect is an interesting one.
The Berensons made national news in 1954 for an unusual reason. They’d installed a new-fangled automatic garage door opener at their home, only to find that pressing the button opened their neighbor’s garage, not their own. The story seems unworthy of notice today. But the Genie – the first mass-produced, radio-controlled residential garage door opener – had just gone on the market and was newsworthy all by itself.
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| Chula Vista Towne Center with 1967 addition (Imperial Beach Star News, 4-27-1967) |
Around 1960, Milo Berenson bought land at 4th and F Streets in Chula Vista – a suburb of San Diego -- and began developing it as the Chula Vista (Towne) Center. He was the builder and co-owner, along with his son-in-law, Dr. Albert Klug, of this large shopping center. It was likely his largest development project, and it helped fund his retirement. He added a new wing with nine more stores in 1967. Having spent most of his career working on individual projects and then swiftly moving on to the next, the Chula Vista Towne Center was a long-term investment and required constant tending, which he did for the rest of his life.
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| Milo Berenson, circa early 1960s. (Imperial Beach Star News, 4-27-1967) |
New building projects were fewer and farther between now. In 1964 he built at least one home in La Jolla using a Cliff May plan. And in 1967 he built an office building at 575 H Street, Chula Vista, for the Morris Plan lending company.
Milo Berenson died in San Diego County on July 3, 1979, and was buried in the Shalom Mausoleum at Greenwood Memorial Park in San Diego. Sadie Berenson followed him in death in 1993.
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| Berenson with building plans in Chula Vista, 1966 (Imperial Beach Star News, 12-4-1966) |
For a man who never went to college, who lived as a Jew in a time of rampant and open antisemitism, and who had higher-profile competitors, the accomplishments and legacy of Milo Berenson are remarkable. He made a successful career and left his mark by dint of his intelligence, hard work, talent, creativity, desire to learn, and willingness to change with the times. It is a great boon that so many of the buildings he designed not only still stand but are still usefully serving their communities and providing a bit of warmth and beauty in our often-dull built environment.
Likely, there were many more of Berenson's architectural and construction projects that are currently unknown. Hopefully, more will come to light now that this small document of his career is available.
Those with an interest in Orange County history likely know the names of key local builders like Alison Honer and John Simon Fluor, and of noted local architects like Frank Lansdowne, William Blurock, and Frederick Eley. Now it’s time to bring Milo Berenson’s name into the conversation.
[My thanks to Alan Hess, Steven Klug, Susan Klug, Tom Lutz, and Stephanie George for their input on this article. If you know of additional Milo Berenson projects, or have other relevant images or information, I’d love to hear from you. The nice thing about publishing online is that I can add to an article as more information comes to light. - CJ]
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| Corner of Stewart's Drive-In Market, Santa Ana |
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| Sadie Berenson speaks to Chula Vista mayor Greg Cox at the grand opening of the renovated Chula Vista Towne Center (Chula Vista Star News, 8-11-1990) |
