Education
Garrott graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in 1917. He then studied Architecture at the University of Southern California from 1930 to 1934.
Garrott graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in 1917. He then studied Architecture at the University of Southern California from 1930 to 1934.
He designed more than 200 buildings, including twenty-five churches and several public buildings. He has been described as a "pivotal black avant garde modernist of the 1940s era."
He earned his architect"s license in 1928. In 1946, Garrott was the second African-American admitted to the American Institute of Architects (American Institute of Architects) in Los Angeles, after Paul R. Williams.
His application was sponsored by Williams and Gregory Ain.
Garrott and Ain shared office space in the Granada Building beginning in 1939. Then they worked together in a "loose partnership" in the 1940s and 50s, and together designed a small office building that they shared in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Los Angeles
They were alternately “Garrott & Ain” or “Ain & Garrott,” depending on who was responsible for design, while on other projects they simply assisted each other’s solo work without cartulary-register Garrott was “politically well connected” and received nine commissions from the Los Angeles County Government in the late 1950s.
In early 1940, Garrott designed both of their Silver Lake split-level homes at 647 and 653 Micheltorena Street.
1928: (with Louis Blodgett) Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building, Los Angeles, California
listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 (#98000712). City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #987
1936: Mount Zion Baptist Church, Los Angeles, California
: George A. Beavers, Junior. residence, Los Angeles, California
: Loren Miller residence, Los Angeles, California
1949: (with Gregory Ain) Ain & Garrott Office, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California
1950: Moss Construction Company, Kenter Canyon, California
1950: (with Gregory Ain) Hamilton Methodist Church (unbuilt)
1951: (with Gregory Ain) Ben Margolis House, Los Angeles, California
1952: Friedman residence, Los Angeles, California
1953: M. Wesley Farr residence, El Segundo, California
1955: Firestone Sheriff"s Station, Lynwood, California
"considered the most modern law enforcement facility of its time."
1957: Lawndale Administrative Center, Lawndale, California
1958-1960: (with Gregory Ain) Westchester Municipal Building, Los Angeles, CaliforniaDavid Gebhard described Garrott’s design as “an anonymous building.”
1958-1960: (with Gregory Ain) Loyola Village Branch Library, Los Angeles, California
1959: (with Gregory Ain) Ralph Atkinson residence, Monterey County, California
1960: Bodger County Park Director"s Building, Hawthorne, California
1960: Delegate Aire County Park Director"s Building, Hawthorne, California
1963: Victoria Park Pool and Bathhouse, Carson, California
1970: Carson Public Library, Carson, California.