#90: John C. Fremont Branch (Hancock Park) | National Library Week
April 9, 2022
This beautiful Mediterranean/Spanish colonial revival library from 1927 fits right in with Hancock Park's tony, tasteful homes
Architecture
#89: Wilshire Branch (Mid-Wilshire) | National Library Week
April 8, 2022
The largest and costliest of the final batch of original LAPL libraries, the Wilshire Branch is a fine example of Italian Romanesque architecture, and tells the story of the LAPL's rapid expansion in the 1920s
#88: Cahuenga Branch (East Hollywood) | National Library Week
April 6, 2022
Cahuenga Branch is the final Carnegie library built in LA, and an anchor for the East Hollywood community since 1916.
#87: Helen Hunt Jackson Branch (South LA) | National Library Week
April 5, 2022
The smallest branch in the LA Public Library branch system, Helen Hunt Jackson Branch had an outsize impact thanks to Miriam Matthews – the first Black librarian employed by the LAPL.
#86: Felipe de Neve Branch (Westlake) | National Library Week
April 4, 2022
An elegant architectural ode to the Spanish founder of Los Angeles, this library has been a community staple in Westlake/MacArthur Park since 1929
#85: Richard Henry Dana Branch (Cypress Park) | National Library Week
April 3, 2022
This community library served Cypress Park for 80 years. Its architecture alludes to the life of its namesake: attorney, politician and abolitionist Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author of Two Years Before the Mast.
#84: Lloyd Wright’s Derby House (Glendale)
March 31, 2022
Lloyd Wright's 1926 Derby House in Glendale is a Mayan-inspired temple of concrete and light, and proof that the son of the world's most famous architect was a master designer and landscaper in his own…wright.
#83: Glendale YMCA
March 27, 2022
The Glendale chapter of the YMCA counted 17% of the city as members in 1931 – including a young John Wayne. Here is its stately Spanish colonial home.
#82: Highland-Camrose Bungalow Village (Hollywood)
March 23, 2022
A cluster of craftsman bungalows built in the 1910s-1920s just south of the Hollywood Bowl and surrounded by mature trees. There's nothing quite like it in Los Angeles.
#81: Hotel Glendale
March 20, 2022
Once the tallest building in Glendale, the beaux arts Hotel Glendale stands as a monument to the ambitious development that the city underwent in the 1920s
#79: El Cabrillo Apartments (Nina & Arthur Zwebell – Hollywood)
March 10, 2022
Built in 1928 for famed filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, El Cabrillo is a sterling Spanish colonial revival apartment complex by the undisputed LA masters of the form, Nina & Arthur Zwebell
#78: Hollywood Studio Club
March 8, 2022
Architect Julia Morgan designed this 1926 building for the Hollywood Studio Club, a one-time home of Marilyn Monroe, Rita Moreno, Kim Novak, Barbara Eden and nearly 10,000 women seeking employment in the film industry
#76: John Lautner’s JW Schaffer House (Montrose)
February 27, 2022
One of the great homes that John Lautner designed in the ‘40s, the Schaffer house blends into its wooded surroundings as if it had always been there.
#74: 28th Street YMCA (Paul Revere Williams – South LA) | Black History Month
February 20, 2022
A vital community center and gathering place for Black Angelenos, and a major early building by legendary architect Paul Revere Williams
#73: McCarty Memorial Christian Church (West Adams) | Black History Month
February 17, 2022
A fine example of gothic church architecture, McCarty Memorial also tells us a lot about how West Adams became a majority-Black neighborhood