Beverly Hills

#201: Beverly Hills Post Office (Beverly Hills)

#201: Beverly Hills Post Office (Beverly Hills)

April 7, 2024
For a Depression-era federal building, the Beverly Hills Post Office is an unusually opulent one, clad in Italianate masonry and terracotta with a lobby awash in marble. After serving Beverly Hillers for over 60 years it was transformed into the beloved Wallis Center for the Performing Arts in 2013.
 #156: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Anderton Court Shops (Beverly Hills)

 #156: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Anderton Court Shops (Beverly Hills)

June 8, 2023
Though the Anderton Court Shops (1954) don’t get the love of Frank Lloyd Wright's other work in Los Angeles, they occupy a singular place in his canon. These six small shop spaces make up the only retail building that Wright designed from the ground up. You'll see echoes of his other work in the spire, the spiraling ramp and the repeated chevron pattern. Mostly though, you'll see the snazziest-looking building on Rodeo Drive by a mil
#138: Greystone Mansion/Doheny Estate (Beverly Hills)

#138: Greystone Mansion/Doheny Estate (Beverly Hills)

February 16, 2023
This 55-room mansion in Beverly Hills was designed by Gordon Kaufmann for oil heir Ned Doheny and his family. Over the years it has been a residence and a public park; a popular place to get married or hold a fashion shoot; the site of a still-controversial murder-suicide case; a film school where David Lynch and Paul Schrader honed their chops; and the location of Beverly Hills' largest reservoir.