Lester A. Cramer


Lester A. Cramer was an American architect. His most famous work was the Ecclesia, the Rosicrucian healing temple on Mount Ecclesia.

Biography

Lester Cramer was the student of Emmanuel Louis Masqueray.
In the late 1800s, the records show he was in New York and contracted for the alterations to a four-story brick in February 1897, and for a similar work on a three-story and basement brick tenement in April 1897.
Lester Cramer, a Probationer of The Rosicrucian Fellowship, delivered the plans for the construction of the Ecclesia, the healing temple on Mount Ecclesia in 1915. The building was completed in 1922. He also drew the plans for the "Sanitarium" building in 1929
Lester Cramer still lived in New York in 1915 when he started to work on the Rosicrucian project in LA, but then the records show he ran an architect firm in Los Angeles, Cramer, Bartlett & Wise, Architects and Engineers. In 1925, the firm became Cramer & Wise, Architects and Engineers.

Work by Cramer & Wise

Cramer & Wise for a very active architect firm in the 1920s. It specialized in the design of 5 to 10-story apartments/hotel buildings. The firm also built many apartment courts in the foothills of Los Angeles.