Howard B. Van Heuklyn

Howard Van Heuklyn was born in Glendale on August 27, 1922 and served in the US Army Engineers and Air Force between 1943-45. Much of his tour of duty was reportedly spent in China where he drew aerial maps. The young veteran graduated from USC with a Bachelors of Architecture (in 1947) and married concert singer Vera Jean Vary (in 1950).

Van Heuklyn joined Risley & Gould as an Associate in 1952 and won an Honor Award from the AIA in 1960 for Magnavox Corp in Torrance.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Van Heuklyn designed churches, schools, university buildings, shopping malls, hospitals, and medical office buildings. He prepared master plans and designed several campus structures for Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Principia College in Missouri, Pierce College, Cal State Fullerton and UCLA.

Partial List of Projects

Business Administration Bldg.
California State University, Fullerton

Clark, W. Jr. High School (1955)
La Crescenta

First Church of Religious Science (1966)
Glendale
*Risley, Gould & Van Heuklyn

Grad. Sen.
University of California, Los Angeles

Joseph Clark Performing Arts Center
California State University, Fullerton

Magnavox Corp. Research Library (ca. 1960)
2829 Maricopa Street, Torrance
*By Risley and Gould; demolished in 2004

Palms Jr. High School Auditorium (1956)
Los Angeles

Pollak Library 1966)
California State University, Fullerton

Principia College
St. Louis, Missouri

Religious Science Church (circa 1963)
907 Knob Hill Avenue, Redondo Beach

S.I.O & S.S.
La Jolla
*While working as Associate of Risley & Gould.

Titan Gym
California State University, Fullerton