Background
A. Eager Wesley was born in 1864 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
A. Eager Wesley was born in 1864 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
In the early years of his practice Mr. Eager worked in partnership for a time with the late Sumner Hunt (Hunt & Eager), during which period they were architects of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena. After 1907 when the late Silas Burns became a third member of the firm, Mr. Eager continued in the partnership until 1910, then joined his brother Frank to establish an office under the name of Eager & Eager. During the rather brief period of their association, the 'Leven Oaks Hotel at Monrovia, designed in the Spanish style, was one of their most important works. Together with Frank Octavious Eager, he designed the Crags Head Country Club off Malibu Canyon Road in Calabasas, California in 1910; it was later demolished. The same year, they designed the private residence of Raymond Walter located at 219 Georgina Avenue in Santa Monica, California. They also designed the Weyside Inn in Ventura, California. In 1911, they designed the C.T. Renaker building in Monrovia, California.