The Stuft Shirt
Thornton Ladd was one of the architects who worked on the Stuft Shirt restaurant in Upland. The company commissioned Ladd, who had recently partnered with John Kelsey, in 1960 to design a new Stuft Shirt restaurant located on the Lido Channel of Newport Harbor in the area known as Mariner’s Mile. Working with structural engineer Richard Bradshaw, Ladd & Kelsey created what is considered “an excellent example of the New Formalist style applied to a commercial property, and one of the earliest examples of this style in the [Southern California] region.” The Stuft Shirt went out of business in 1975 and other eateries followed suit, leaving the building vacant until 2009 when the building underwent an award-winning adaptive reuse into a high-end boutique, A’maree’s, by Paul Davis Architects. The Stuft Shirt is listed on the California Register of Historical Resources.
Newport Beach, Orange County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt