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Morgan himself lived with his family at 819 Westlake Avenue. He was born in England in about 1850 and the censuses lists him as an architect. He first appears in the US census in Los Angeles in 1900, but is listed in an LA directory in 1884 as a Los Angeles architect. He is noted in that directory to have been naturalized as a US citizen in Leadville, Colorado in 1878. His residence address, in the 1890 directory was 402 Temple. Octavius Morgan died in 1922.

Morgan was apparently the architect for the original Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, later the Arcade Theater. It was built in 1910 and was located at 534 S. Broadway. The building, now a video store and apparently offices, is still there and mostly unchanged, save for the "modernized" marquee and security doors on the storefronts