Albert C. Martin, Sr.

Albert Carey Martin (September 16, 1879 – April 9, 1960) was an American architect and engineer. He founded the firm Albert C. Martin & Associates, now known as A.C. Martin Partners, and designed numerous landmark buildings in Southern California. Martin also developed a system of reinforced concrete construction, along with reinforced brick masonry.

Career Martin began his career as a draftsman at Brown-Ketcham Iron Works in Indianapolis, Indiana. Martin formed his own firm, Albert C. Martin & Associates, in 1906.

Martin developed a system of reinforced concrete construction in 1907 and a method of reinforced brick masonry in 1933, both of which were meant to help safeguard buildings against earthquakes.

List of works Martin and his associates designed an estimated 1,500 buildings. Higgins Building (1910), LAHCM #873 Million Dollar Theater (1917), LAHCM #1184, NRHP-listed LAHCM #1207, NRHP-listed St. Vincent's Catholic Church (1925), Los Angeles City Hall (1928), with John Parkinson and John C. Austin, May Company Wilshire (1939), Ventura County Courthouse, Ventura (1913), NRHP-listed Lakewood Center, Lakewood (1952) in Oxnard, California on October 16, 1907. They had six children, including architect Albert C. Martin Jr., who went into business with his father, and J. Edward Martin (October 23, 1916 – November 22, 2004), a structural engineer who assumed management of his father's firm after World War II.

Albert C. Martin died at age 80 in Los Angeles.