Esther McCoy Irving Gill 1870-1936 Five California Architects, 1960, Reprinted in Marvin Rand Irving J. Gill: Architect 1870-1936, Gibbs Smith, Publisher: Salt Lake City, UT, Design, Ahde Lahti; Photographs, Marvin Rand, 2006, 238 pp. pp. 219-227, 2006a, 1960, 1920s
"At the end of the twenties there was a brief respite. Gill received two commissions, the Christian Science Church for Coronado, and the Oceanside City Hall, Fire Station and Police Station. It was while this work was in progress that he married for the first time at the age of 58. His wife was Mrs. Marion Brashears of Palos Verdes. Although he had always been enormously popular with women, he appeared to have committed himself to one woman happily enough-judging from a letter written during a brief separation just following his marriage. "My wife," he wrote, "how beautifully the word is. A word I've always wanted to use." The couple went to Palos Verdes to live, but less than ten months later he wrote in his notebook "Moved to Carlsbad 1:50 p.m. Thursday March 7, 1929."
"The move came seven months before the market crash. In Carlsbad he lived in a house set in an acre or two of orchard belonging to his wife. It had no inside plumbing or gas for cooking and heating. Shortly after his arrival Gill had a heart attack; although he was weakened, he continued to work."