Kendrick Bangs Kellogg

Kendrick Bangs Kellogg grew up in Mission Beach, in the backyard of his family home, where he is said to have designed and built his first structure (a fort or club house of sorts). He attended the University of Colorado, University of Southern California, and the University of California at Berkeley.

In April 1955, Ken and his fellow architecture students from the University of Colorado (Boulder) took a field trip to see the architecture of Phoenix and Scottsdale. Here he met Frank Lloyd Wright and heard him speak for the first time. In his interview with Mr. Wright, Ken realized that the unaccredited school may not be the best direction to take at the time but hung on every of Mr. Wright's words. He would later hear a great number of stories from Taliesin Fellows about their time with Mr. Wright.

Ken Kellogg returned to San Diego and short stints in the offices of Sim Bruce Richards (during the summer of ’55 and ’56 building models for residences on the Kona Coast of Hawaii and in Rancho Santa Fe) and Dale Naegle.

Ken met Russell and Vergie Babcock at the time they were renting a 2nd floor apartment on Bayside Walk in Mission Beach from a family friend. It was at a time when Ken was discovering himself through Frank Lloyd Wright’s work and philosophy. Russell Babcock told Ken of the house they hired Lloyd Wright to build at the north end of park ave overhanging mission valley – though it was never built. The Babcocks initially asked Ken to design an addition to their "Sanatorium" in National City, and then in the summer of 1957, they told him of their purchase of a small lot off San Luis Ray Place and asked him to design a house. They requested an "A-frame" with a copper roof, and the Babcock Residence was born.

Ken became friends with La Jolla architect (and former Taliesin Fellow) Frederick Liebhart. As a boy (the future president) of Chart House Restaurant, Buzzy Bent, worked on Fred's house as a laborer---and got "organic architecture" mixed into his bloodstream. Not too late after starting the Chart House Restaurant chain in 1960, Buzzy contacted Ken to design their Santa Barbara location. From there, organic architecture would, in part, define the chain as unique.

In 1964 Kellogg received his architect's license and in 1966, he obtained a building contractor's license followed by a national license in 1979 and an international license in 1998.

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Partial List of San Diego Projects

Atoll House (1972)
9805 Black Gold Road, La Jolla

Babcock Residence (1959)
2695 Bayside Walk

Babcock Sanitarium (1957)
National City, CA

Bailey House (1984)
San Diego, CA

Baras, Bill and Carol Residence
4845 Lomitas Drive
San Diego, CA

Bridge Medical Building
120 S. Sierra Avenue
Solana Beach, CA

Chapman, Barbara & Wayne Residence (1968)
353 Glenmont Drive, Solana Beach

Chart House Restaurant (remodel)
Westwood, CA

Chart House Restaurant
Santa Barbara , CA

Chart House Restaurant (remodel)
Point Loma, CA

Chart House Restaraunt
231 Yacht Club Way
Redondo Beach, California

Chart House Restaraunt
34442 Street of the Green Lantern
Dana Point, California

Chart House Restaraunt
1501 River Place Boulevard
Jacksonville, Florida

Chart House Restaurant
1270 Prospect, La Jolla, CA

Doolittle Residence
Joshua Tree, CA

Gordon, Larry & Gayle Residence (Wave House) (1972)
1646 Yost Street, Pacific Beach

Guth Residence
5820 Madra, Del Cerro

Hoshino Wedding Chapel
Karuizawa, Japan

Hypnos Morpheus Office Interiors (1979)
Mission Valley

Institute of Organic Architecture
South Side of Palomar Mountain

Kellogg House & Studio (1960)
838 Balboa Court, Mission Beach

Kellogg, Kendrick Bangs Residence (1972)
15415 Topa Rd.
Pauma Valley, CA

La duc, Ector Residence (1994)
El Camino Teatro, La Jolla

Manchester Ship Terminal
Houston, TX

McInnis, Jim & Gail Residence (1968)
10087 Shadow Road, La Mesa, CA

Moonlight Residence
La Jolla, CA

Onion House (1962)
Kawa Kona, Hawaii

Outrider Restaurant
4444 Mission Blvd, Mission Beach

Private Residence
4845 Lomitas Drive, San Diego

Private Residence
6621 Neptune, La Jolla

Private Residence
10650 Old Castle Road, Valley Center

Private Residence
29 Palms, CA

Private Residence
Rancho Mirage, CA

Private Residence
701 Hoska, Del Mar

Shore, Scott Residence (1986)
Venice Court, Mission Beach

Silva, Edward P. Residence (1960)
596 San Eiljo, Point Loma

Wedding Dress Shop
Rancho Santa Fe, CA

West Way House (1977)
8456 Westway Drive, La Jolla

Wingsweep Residence
Temecula, CA

Yen, Sam Residence (1981)
7799 Starlight Drive, La Jolla