#134: Venice of America House (Venice)
January 9, 2023
This quirky Victorian home in Venice is one of the last residential vestiges of Venice of America: a planned resort community designed by Abbot Kinney in the early 1900s.
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#133: Exposition Park Rose Garden
January 3, 2023
With over 19,000 rosebushes in hundreds of varietals, the Exposition Park Rose Garden is one of the largest public rose gardens in the United States. It's been open since 1928, and looks pretty much the same today as it did back then.
#109: Mirlo Gate Lodge Tower (Palos Verdes)
July 31, 2022
This medieval-style tower was built in 1925 to house the gatekeeper of upscale Palos Verdes Estates. The history of the Mirlo Gate Lodge Tower tells us a lot about the development of the Palos Verdes peninsula, and it's a fascinating case study for how architects can create a unified aesthetic when planning a city.
#104: 52nd Place Historic District (South LA)
June 28, 2022
A unique tract of one-story craftsman bungalows in South LA, important both for its architecture and for the story it tells about the movement of Black Angelenos in the '30s through the '50s.
#96: Old Fire Station No. 27 (Hollywood)
May 4, 2022
Once the largest fire station west of the Mississippi, Old Fire Station No. 27 protected the residents and film studios of Hollywood for six decades. It now preserves LAFD history as a firefighters museum.
#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
#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.
#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
#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
#66: Hollywood Argyle Apartments (Hollywood)
January 23, 2022
While this 1920s Hollywood apartment building is anything but glamorous, its story says a lot about the development of Hollywood over the past century.
#63: La Laguna de San Gabriel (San Gabriel)
January 9, 2022
An imaginative playground of concrete dragons, whales and octopi created by master artisan Benjamin Dominguez