John Elgin Woolf

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Elgin Woolf (born Atlanta, Georgia, 1908; died Beverly Hills, California, 1980), was an American architect noted for the Hollywood homes he created with partner and adopted son Robert Koch Woolf. After receiving his bachelor's degree in architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1929, Woolf (known as Jack) moved to Hollywood, hoping to pursue a career in film. Hoping his Southern background might prove an asset in filming Gone With the Wind, he met the film's first director, George Cukor, who was instrumental in helping Woolf meet other influential people in Hollywood who later became his clients. In the late 1940s, Woolf met Robert Koch, an interior designer. They became partners and together built or renovated homes for many of the wealthy and famous Los Angeles area residents of the 1950s and 60s.