City of Glendale Register of Historic Places No. 45. Manor home of Daniel & Margaret McPeak Campbell,
a 25 to 50 acre early citrus ranch.
Pioneer city banker, developer of area in 20's/30's,
and community philanthropist.
Children: Daniel . . . — — Map (db m214542) HM
Built in 1922 by Mattison Boyd Jones, businessman, politician, and community leader. Home and gardens frequently used as background for motion pictures, television, and commercial filming. — — Map (db m163467) HM
Grand Central Air Terminal is an intact example of an early airport
passenger terminal and serves as a physical record of pivotal events that helped shape the development of air travel and the aviation industry in Southern California.
The air . . . — — Map (db m137664) HM
Built in 1936. French revival-style design adapted by
local architect Merrill Baird and featured
as the “Home of the Month” in the
September 1936 issue of McCall's magazine. — — Map (db m173521) HM
Built in 1931. Excellent example of Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture due to its
outstanding design and retention of character-defining features. — — Map (db m174062) HM
Built in 1927. Excellent example of Mediterranean Revival architecture. Residence of world heavyweight wrestling champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis between 1933 and 1940. — — Map (db m137362) HM
Mansion built by W. F. Markham, developer and inventor of the Markham Air Rifle at Plymouth, Michigan in 1886. Gardens formerly used as bird sanctuary. — — Map (db m137558) HM
First historical landmark — Historical Society Museum, original site of 1913 city hall, jail, and fire house — Dedicated May 8, 1990. Bob Kuhn, Mayor, City of Glendora. John Gordon, President, Glendora Historical Society.
Marker . . . — — Map (db m242573) HM
One of Glendora's most distinguished landmarks was
the Mission Building. This Foothill Boulevard façade
featured a covered walkway shared by several storefronts. A popular malt shop was located on the corner
and a theater occupied most of the . . . — — Map (db m180729) HM
Built by Michael Clarke Rubel and hundreds of volunteers, 1968 to 1986, from local river rock and salvaged materials.
This property has been listed in The National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior in . . . — — Map (db m123040) HM
This resort was established around 1915 and was constructed with rough-hewn logs and rugged stone, reflective of the “Western Alpine” style popularized by the National Parks in the early 1900s. It differed from the other stops along the . . . — — Map (db m152075) HM
Because of its distinctive rock work and spectacular views, the Tumble Inn was known as one of the loveliest locations on the ridge. From here travelers had breathtaking views of the Liebre Mountains to the east and coastal ranges to the . . . — — Map (db m152077) HM
Long a major attraction for residents and visitors, the first Hermosa
Beach Pier was built in 1904. It was a wooden trestle structure extending
500 feet into the ocean. Damaged by a storm in 1913, it was replaced
the following year with an . . . — — Map (db m205495) HM
The original Pier Avenue School was built in 1911
and was later destroyed by an earthquake in
1933. Reconstruction of the building began in 1934.
This building was home to the Pier Avenue School
from 1934-1975. It was later purchased to be
used . . . — — Map (db m205484) HM
The Hermosa Beach Police and Volunteer Fire Station, Jail, and
Courthouse were built here in 1916. The city hall and the
Marshal's office were moved here from the head of Pier Avenue
as well. Stories maintain that the jail cells were built . . . — — Map (db m205516) HM
In 1913, The First Bank of Hermosa Beach opened right here on
the southwest corner of Pier and Hermosa Avenues. The bank
was authorized by the US Government to print US paper currency.
Over $40,000 worth of $5 bills were printed and circulated . . . — — Map (db m205488) HM
The Bijou Theater, originally called The Metropolitan,
was built by Richard Douglas King and was first
opened in 1923. It is no longer used as a theater,
but has been seismically retrofitted and the
exterior saved as a historic building. — — Map (db m205511) HM
Lanterman House, built 1915, has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. — — Map (db m188508) HM
The chimes in this church,
St. Luke's of the Mountains
of La Crescenta, California,
were presented by
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Watchorn
in memory of their
beloved son
Lieutenant Emory Ewart Watchorn,
1926. — — Map (db m198224) HM
Dominated by a shingled belfry and resonant bell, the first
schoolhouse in the Crescenta-Cañada Valley was erected on
this site in 1888.
Rehung in 1914, this bell summoned children to school until it
was dismantled in 1948, when it began . . . — — Map (db m147003) HM
Occupied from 1909-1916 by A.J. Milne, a hardware
merchant who operated a Studebaker dealership,
plumbing, real estate, and
insurance business in one
Lordsburg building. The 1½ story bungalow has
classic square front porch
columns with twin . . . — — Map (db m190869) HM
Carpenter Jonas E. Bowman
and Mason J. Ross Hanawalt
built this home for Bowman's
family. Much of the lumber
used was salvaged from the
old 1887 Lordsburg Hotel
/ College building which was
razed in 1927. Bowman and
Hanawalt later built a . . . — — Map (db m191087) HM
Christian J & Sarah Brandt
came from Iowa to Covina
in 1887 and began raising
citrus. Brandt bought ten
acres in Lordsburg in 1910.
The famly first lived at
what is now 2838 White
Avenue, then resided here
1922-1939. Both homes were
built . . . — — Map (db m191079) HM
Constructed in 1921 for
retired Illinois teacher
Hortense Lear, this home
combines flat-roofed
Spanish Pueblo style with a
semi-round early American
portico. Miss Lear occupied
the home 1921-1953, then
left it in her will to the
Church of . . . — — Map (db m190914) HM
This home is believed to
have been built before 1900. It was acquired by Jonas
Bowman, who built his family the
stone home
across the street. Later his
daughter Helen and her
husband Charles ("Chuck")
Huck lived here from 1954
to 2001. — — Map (db m191084) HM
This Craftsman home, built
in 1912 by Mace and Adele
Doutt, was purchased in 1918
by Isaac Eikenberry and
remained in the Eikenberry
family until 1974, a total of
56 years. The large bur oak
tree grew from an acorn
which Eikenberry . . . — — Map (db m190938) HM
This residence was built at the
same time as Henry L. Kuns’
home at the north end of the
block. James M. Johnson was
married to Kuns' daughter,
Ora Lamb Kuns.
Johnson
owned the Lordsburg Garage
& Machine Shop.
He also
maintained streets . . . — — Map (db m190953) HM
Leo Lomeli, the local Santa
Fe railway station agent
1942-1960, began building this
home in 1951 for his wife,
Esperanza, and three sons.
It was a labor of love,
completed in 1957 with help
from friends and family.
Lomeli was the first . . . — — Map (db m190945) HM
Built by carpenter William
Moomaw for his parents and
family. Moomaw married in
1912 and lived here with his
wife until 1962. In the 1920's
he and his neighbor to the
west moved the home about
thirty feet west so no
other house could be . . . — — Map (db m191083) HM
Built by Lordsburg pioneer
David Blickenstaff, whose
descendants include the
first fire chief Harry
Blickenstaff and longtime
mayor Jon Blickenstaff. The
craftsman structure once
served as a girls' dormitory
for La Verne College. — — Map (db m214618) HM
Built 1913-14 for Lordsburg College teachers B. S. and Laura Haugh by her father, J. P. Harshbarger. Concrete blocks were produced by the Hanawalt Bros; lumber was from the Lordsburg Lumber Company. Noted for their musical talents, the Haughs lived . . . — — Map (db m128973) HM
In 1887 Lewis C. Meredith
bought land in the unincorporated town of La
Verne Heights, planted citrus trees, and built this home. The town's name was
taken by Lordsburg in 1917.
Meredith's citrus acreage
was later sold, but the home
has . . . — — Map (db m190770) HM
As shown on a Pomona Land Water Association map, the Weber House
was built in 1885 by its owners, Thomas Oldam and John Park.
John Weber acquired the home in 1892 and like other land owners
in the area, Weber planted several acres of citrus . . . — — Map (db m190769) HM
Site of ancient Indian villages.
It was built in 1928 by H.A.Edwards.
It was purchased and enlarged, 1938-1941, by Grace Oliver.
The museum opened in 1941. — — Map (db m152544) HM
This buiding, erected by the Gilroy family in 1876, this building was purchased in 1902 by George T. Webber, who operated it as the Western Hotel. The Lancaster Chamber of Commerce was organized in its dining room. Between 1905 and 1913, . . . — — Map (db m53028) HM
Formerly called the Hot Cha Cafe, this unique building is shaped like a coffee pot. Fantasy architecture based on an object became popular in the 1920's and 1930's in small-scale commercial buildings, to attract attention and sell a product. Most of . . . — — Map (db m244824) HM
A classic beaux arts office building in renaissance revival style designed by eminent Los Angeles architects known for many landmarks. Originally called Security Trust and Savings Bank, many prestigious firms located here. — — Map (db m72476) HM
A complex of three historic buildings in different architectural styles. The Campbell Apartments at 130 Linden were designed by Parker O. Wright and Francis Gentry in a Spanish Baroque style in 1928. The Lafayette Hotel was a premier art deco hotel . . . — — Map (db m72454) HM
Rising majestically on a site overlooking the city's once famous beach and amusement park, The Breakers was built as the city's most splendid and luxurious resort hotel. Owned during the 40's by Conrad Hilton, it remained a hotel for decades until . . . — — Map (db m72660) HM
The oldest remaining highrise on the ocean bluffs, this unique "own your own" apartment building has provided elegant seaside living at the center of resort activity. — — Map (db m72704) HM
The First Congregational Church of Long Beach, constructed 1914, has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior, September 28, 2012. — — Map (db m72455) HM
Designed by architect Harvey Lochridge for Fred Markwell in 1914, but not constructred until 1919, the Jergins Building was originally named after Markwell. Built in the Beaux-Arts style, the six story structure contained a theater and offices. In . . . — — Map (db m94328) HM
Queen Anne Cottage, built 1893. Declared 1988, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 399, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m224257) HM
A street of houses designed in the Eastlake and Queen Anne styles of the late 19th century, exhibiting the finest collection of Victorian domestic architecture remaining in Los Angeles. From their vantage point on Angelino Heights, these houses have . . . — — Map (db m167925) HM
Eastlake style. Built 1887. Declared 1979, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 216, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m185719) HM
Eastlake/Queen Anne style, built 1885. Declared 1978, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 190, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m224258) HM
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
Residence, Eastlake style. Built 1888. Declared 1971, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 76, City of Los Angeles, . . . — — Map (db m224256) HM
Eastlake style. Built 1887. Historic-Cultural Monument No. 221, declared - June 6, 1979, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m186852) HM
Eastlake/Queen Anne style,
circa 1889.
Joseph Cather Newsom - architect.
Historic-Cultural Monument No. 189,
declared - May 3, 1978,
City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m220032) HM
Cummings Comes To California
The stately brick building, with its projecting turret and other distinctive Victorian-era details, is one of the reminders of early Boyle Heights; and the Cummings Block, completed in 1889, represents . . . — — Map (db m174709) HM
The Hollenbeck Park Bridge features a unique engineering design. The 9 foot
wide and 168 foot long, wood timber, and planked deck bridge was originally
designed and constructed in 1970. It was designed to be a “floating bridge”.
The concrete . . . — — Map (db m207493) HM
The Cummings Block
The distinctive building at the corner of First Street and Boyle Avenue is the Cummings Block. The Queen Anne - Italianate structure was developed by George Cummings in 1889. His wife, María del Scaramento . . . — — Map (db m207567) HM
Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital, first built in 1905, is a landmark in Boyle Heights and in the history
of industrial health care. It was established to serve the health care needs of railway employees,
who faced unusual risk of injury and other . . . — — Map (db m191109) HM
The original Sixth Street Viaduct, constructed in 1932,
included art deco features, two pairs of iconic steel
arches, and was recognized as Los Angeles Historic
Cultural Monument 905. The 1932 viaduct was designed by
the City of Los Angeles . . . — — Map (db m203789) HM
Modern style. Architects - Whitney R.Smith & A.Quincy Jones. Built 1949.
Declared 2002, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 720, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m184998) HM
Modern style.
Raymond Kappe, architect.
Built 1968. Declared 2007,
Historic-Cultural
Monument No. 886,
Cultural-Heritage Commission,
City of Los Angeles. — — Map (db m230860) HM
Thornton M. Abell, Architect.
International Style.
Built 1967. Declared 2005,
Historic-Cultural Monument No. 834,
City of Los Angeles,
Cultural Heritage Commission. — — Map (db m230784) HM
Modern style.
Architects - A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith.
Built 1950. Declared 1997,
Historic-Cultural Monument No. 633,
City of Los Angeles,
Cultural Heritage Commission,
Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m230848) HM
Modern style. A.Quincy Jones & Whitney Smith,
architects. Built 1951. Declared 2005, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 797, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission. — — Map (db m184990) HM
Mid-Century Modern style.
A. Quincy Jones, architect.
Built 1949. Declared 2007,
Historic-Cultural
Monument No. 862,
Cultural Heritage Commission,
City of Los Angeles. — — Map (db m230852) HM
Modern style. Architects - A. Quincy Jones & Whitney E. Smith.
Built 1948. Declared 2000,
Historic-Cultural Monument No. 682,
City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m220435) HM
Modern style. Architects - A. Quincy Jones & Whitney E. Smith. Built 1950. Declared 2001, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 698, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m220436) HM
The Archer School for Girls has been designated a National Historic Landmark. This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America. — — Map (db m230684) HM
A.Quincy Jones, architect. Modern style. Built 1949. Declared 2002, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 722, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission. — — Map (db m185003) HM
Modern style.
Architects - A. Quincy Jones Jr. and Whitney R. Smith.
Built 1950. Declared 1997,
Historic-Cultural Monument No. 635,
City of Los Angeles,
Cultural Heritage Commission,
Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m230854) HM
Modern style.
Architects - A. Quincy Jones & Whitney B. Smith.
Built 1950. Declared 2002,
Historic-Cultural Monument No. 723,
City of Los Angeles,
Cultural Heritage Commission,
Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m230858) HM
Federal Emergency
Administration
of Public Works.
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States.
Harold L. Ickes,
Administrator of Public Works.
1939. — — Map (db m226444) HM
Canoga Park Branch Library, Modern style, built 1959.
Declared 2000, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 700, Cultural Heritage Commission, City of Los Angeles. — — Map (db m163862) HM
Built in 1931 and vacated in 1978 due to earthquake damage. Became the home of the Canoga Park Chamber of Commerce 1982. Dedicated as the Canoga Park Community Center 10/26/1986. Dedication of the Canoga-Owensmouth Historical Museum in part of the . . . — — Map (db m124827) HM
Chatsworth Community Church, 1903.
Declared Historic Cultural Monument No. 14 by the Cultural Heritage Board, Municipal Art Department, City of Los Angeles. — — Map (db m163863) HM
Population Explosion
Although official immigration quotas had
been limited to just 105 annually after the
Exclusion Acts were overturned in 1943,
many immigrants entered the country
through the 1945 War Brides Act and . . . — — Map (db m229254) HM
Chinatown Redefined
In 1933, when Old Chinatown was torn
down to make way for the construc
tion of Union Station, everyone began
to think about what form a new Chinese
community might take. Peter Soo Hoo,
the first Chinese hired . . . — — Map (db m219859) HM
Philippe Garnier, a settler from Gap, France, hired Abraham Edelman to design this brick and sandstone building for Chinese tenants. This was the oldest and most significant building of the original Chinatown of Los Angeles which was located here. . . . — — Map (db m155778) HM
Federal Emergency Administration
of Public Works Project No. 4361.
City of Los Angeles, Frank L Shaw - Mayor.
Board of Public Works...
Bureau of Engineering...
Members of the City Council...
General contractor: . . . — — Map (db m229670) HM
Modern style. Architects - A. Quincy Jones & Whitney R. Smith. Built 1948. Declared 2000, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 680, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m220365) HM
The Smart Set In Downtown
Beginning in the 1880s, ladies and gentlemen swirled to music in the ballroom
of the Bellevue Terrace Hotel. The three-story Victorian-style hotel, with 140 rooms
and three turrets, was considered . . . — — Map (db m231316) HM
The Foy's on Figueroa
From this intersection emerged much of Los Angeles' history. Early on, the junction was on the outskirts of town; later, it became a fashionable residential area and then the center of business and commerce for the . . . — — Map (db m210197) HM
Flight of the Angels
As the trombones played on New Year's Eve in 1901, two wingless angels took flight, screeching their way to fame as the stars of the world's "shortest railway." "Olivet" and "Sinai," two black-trimmed, . . . — — Map (db m227811) HM
From 1901 until 1969, the Angels Flight funicular railway operated just north of this location, adjacent to the south side
of the Third Street tunnel. The flight was dismantled in connection with the re-grading phase of the Bunker Hill . . . — — Map (db m228648) HM
Art Deco style. Architects - John and Donald Parkinson. Built 1930. Declared 1997,
Historic Cultural Monument No. 631,
City of Los Angeles,
Cultural Heritage Commission,
Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m167936) HM
Host of the Coast
Its lore is as rich as its tapestries, as its gilded cupids and carved marble. From the moment it opened on October 2, 1923, the 11-story Biltmore Hotel became Los Angeles' "Host of the Coast," a chandeliered . . . — — Map (db m184909) HM
Milestone in the significant
architectural, economic and cultural
development of Los Angeles.
Declared Historic Cultural Monument No. 60
by the Cultural Heritage Board,
Municipal Arts Department,
City of Los Angeles. — — Map (db m231247) HM
Mining Tycoon L. Bradbury Makes His Mark
His name endures in the eponymous town of wealth and horseflesh set against the San Gabriel Mountains, but mining tycoon Louis Bradbury made his loveliest mark on Southern California with the . . . — — Map (db m167742) HM
When Women Carried
Parasols
The gleaming skyscrapers of Bunker Hill that now symbolize Los Angeles' towering ambitions are the modern incarnation of the hilltop's first buildings - the elegant, gingerbread mansions that made the . . . — — Map (db m170223) HM
Charles C. Chapman Building, Beaux Arts style. Los Angeles Investment Company, Ernest McConnell, architect. Built 1912.
Declared 2007, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 899, Cultural Heritage Commission, City of Los Angeles. — — Map (db m164426) HM
Tall, Dark And Prosperous
City National Plaza’s sleek, gleaming, granite-sheathed, 52-story twin towers are monuments to Los Angeles’ long history and oil
capital, and to the banking money that followed the black gold.
For more . . . — — Map (db m164082) HM
A unique facade in Streamline Moderne architecture,
designed by Robert Derrah in the late 1930's.
Declared Historic Cultural Monument No. 138 by the Cultural Heritage Board, Municipal Arts Department, City of Los Angeles. — — Map (db m229989) HM
Convention Center — At Last
The Los Angeles Convention Center
opened in 1971 — almost 200 years
after Los Angeles was founded. But that
doesn't mean that conventions and galas
bypassed the City of Angels before then.
Downtown's . . . — — Map (db m234553) HM
Classical Revival style. Reid Brothers, architect. Thomas Douglas Stimson,
developer. Built 1899. Declared 2009, Historic-Cultural
Monument No. 966, Cultural Heritage Commission, City of Los Angeles. — — Map (db m178708) HM
From A Fire Station To A Diners' Hot Spot
In a city where, as the joke goes,
any waiter might be an actor,
there's no reason why a venerable fire station shouldn't be
turned into a restaurant.
And in a city that . . . — — Map (db m231329) HM
Renaissance Revival style, built in 1912.
John P. Krempel, architect.
Historic-Cultural Monument No. 348,
March 29, 1988,
City of Los Angeles,
Cultural Heritage Commission,
Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m231308) HM
Romanesque style.
Architects - Walker and Eisen.
Built 1927. Declared 1974, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 125,
City of Los Angeles,
Cultural Heritage Commission,
Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m183788) HM
Built in 1914 to manufacture Model T's,
the poured-concrete and block building
was the second Ford Motor Company plant
established west of the Mississippi. The 90,000
square foot factory produced up to 300 cars
daily, and employed 1,100 . . . — — Map (db m190258) HM
A significant example of
the opulent Art Deco style.
Declared Historic Cultural Monument No. 121 by the Cultural Heritage Board, Municipal Arts Department, City of
Los Angeles. — — Map (db m184114) HM
The Grether & Grether Building — 1924 — has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States National Park Service — 2017. — — Map (db m231351) HM
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