#41: Downtown Burbank Post Office
November 16, 2021
A WPA-era post office building that turns dropping off a package into a trip into California's mission past That's a genuine grin. I love this post office.NRHP plaque @[…]
#40: Little Tokyo Historic District (Downtown)
November 15, 2021
Once the center of social and commercial life for LA’s huge Japanese community before the internment camps of WWII, Little Tokyo is now a business hub and tourist destination grappling with its difficult history.
#39: Million Dollar Theater (Downtown)
November 14, 2021
Sid Grauman's original movie palace, opened downtown in 1918 – years before Grauman's Chinese, El Capitan and the Egyptian moved the movie industry's commercial epicenter to Hollywood Million Dollar Theater,[…]
#38: Angels Flight Railway (Downtown)
November 13, 2021
The shortest railway in the world, carrying folks 298 feet up and down a downtown LA hill in the same cars since 1901 Added to the National Register of[…]
#37: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Storer House (Hollywood Hills)
November 12, 2021
One of the master architect's four textile-block homes in LA, restored (re-Storered?) to its original glory.
#34-36: West LA Veterans Historic District
November 11, 2021
Massive VA complex helping disabled and homeless military veterans since the late 19th century, including historic chapel & streetcar depot In honor of Veterans Day, my family visited the[…]
#33: Colonial House (Hollywood)
November 9, 2021
West Hollywood apartment tower with a storied actor clientele, by architect-to-the-stars Leland Bryant https://youtu.be/DkHcn7vTfe8 Added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1982 Got $5500 a month[…]
#30-32: Zwebell Courtyard Apartments (Hollywood)
November 8, 2021
A trio of fanciful, Spanish-influenced courtyard apartments designed in the '20s by the untrained husband-and-wife duo Arthur & Nina Zwebell Celebrating my return to the office for the first[…]
#29: Andrew McNally House (Altadena)
November 7, 2021
UPDATE, 1/11/25: The Andrew McNally House burned down in the Eaton Fire that destroyed most of Altadena. Andrew McNally House entranceMe, my mom and the NRHP plaque at the[…]
#28: Zane Grey Estate (Altadena)
November 5, 2021
The Zane Grey Estate is an inspired Mediterranean Revival home once occupied by the author of the classic western Riders of the Purple Sage
#27: Christmas Tree Lane (Altadena)
November 4, 2021
A 100+ year holiday tradition that began with a handful of deodar cedar seeds from Altadena's founding family, the Woodburys Added to the National Register of Historic Places on September[…]
#26: Case Study House 20B (Buff, Straub & Hensman – Altadena)
November 3, 2021
Buff, Straub & Hensman's post & beam home for one of Hollywood's all-time great graphic designers
#24 & #25: Walter D. Valentine Cottage B & Keyes Bungalow (Altadena)
November 2, 2021
A luxe cabin by 1/2 of Greene & Greene and a pristine craftsman "airplane" bungalow, both in Altadena Altadena is chock full of great, and occasionally important, residential architecture.[…]
#23: Pacific Electric Railway Company Substation No. 8 (Altadena)
November 1, 2021
This power station once sent tourists to the top of the Altadena mountains by train & funicular on the famous, defunct Mount Lowe Railway. It's now a Mennonite thrift shop.
#21 & #22: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House & Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House (Los Feliz)
October 31, 2021
Special for Halloween: A pair of Mayan revival homes with spooky connections from a master architect and his son Happy Halloween! For stops #21 & #22 in my Etan[…]