Background
Arthur Benton was born in 1859 in Peoria, Illinois, United States.
Arthur Benton was born in 1859 in Peoria, Illinois, United States.
He studied of Architecture at the local School of Art and Design.
He went to Topeka, Kans., when a youth and worked as a clerk in the offices of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Offices.
In 1891 he moved to Los Angeles, and after a brief period of association with an architect named Aiken, carried on professional practice there for the rest of his life. His work, in addition to the Mission Inn, included the Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home in Los Angeles, a large Romanesque structure at Third Street and Loma Drive; Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. Buildings in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Riverside; the Arlington Hotel at Santa Barbara (destroyed in the earthquake of 1925); Arrowhead Springs Hotel near San Bernardino, the first Friday Morning Club in Los Angeles, and the San Marcos Hotel at Chandler, Arizona
Mr. Benton also designed a number of Episcopal Churches in Los Angeles, Hollywood and other cities; buildings for the Harvard and Thatcher Schools, the country home of Anita-Baldwin-McClaughry at Santa Anita, the residence of Alexander Drake at Pasadena, and the A. L. Cheney home in Los Angeles.