#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
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#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
#72: Dunbar Hotel (South LA) / Hotel Somerville | Black History Month
February 14, 2022
The hub of Central Avenue's vibrant jazz scene in the late '20s through the early '50s, the Dunbar Hotel hosted everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Thurgood Marshall to Joe Louis, and served as a symbol of Black achievement during the Jim Crow era
#71: 27th Street Historic District | Black History Month
February 10, 2022
The century-old Victorian and craftsman homes of the 27th Street Historic District have housed generations of minority communities in LA – including a large population of African Americans during the heyday of Central Avenue
#69: Second Baptist Church (South LA) | Black History Month
February 2, 2022
A center of Black community life since 1926, Second Baptist Church has hosted MLK, Malcolm X & James Baldwin, and is an early work of noted LA architect Paul R. Williams
#68: Montecito Apartments (Hollywood)
January 30, 2022
Standing tall in Hollywood since 1931, this art deco high-rise once housed Gene Hackman, Montgomery Clift, Mickey Rooney and Ronald Reagan