Glendale Archives - Etan Does LA

#192: Doctors House (Glendale)

March 9, 2024

The Doctors House is a rare Victorian home in Glendale once occupied by four doctors, a silent movie star and two families of Croatian immigrants. After facing demolition, it was saved by the Glendale Historical Society and moved to Brand Park. It now operates as a house museum.

#114: Alex Theatre (Glendale)

September 1, 2022

Entertainment

The Alex Theatre is the last of Glendale's grand movie palaces. Opened in 1925 as a venue for vaudeville and silent films, it spent decades as a first-run movie theater, and more recently as a vital performing arts center. The iconic marquee and tower, added in 1940, projects a timeless opulence befitting a building that's endured nearly 100 years of ownership changes, fires, renovations and the changing tastes of the public.

#105: Ard Eevin (Glendale)

July 3, 2022

Architecture

This eclectic 1903 mansion was the home of Daniel Campbell, an Irishman who emigrated to CA with $50, made a fortune in the Klondike gold rush, brought his family out to LA and soon became one of Glendale’s early civic leaders during the city’s first major growth spurt.

#102: Glendale Main Post Office

June 15, 2022

Architecture

This stately post office has served the city of Glendale since 1934, and survived multiple waves of USPS consolidations. Yes, its Italian Renaissance revival style was old hat by the time it was built – but what a lovely example it is!

#84: Lloyd Wright’s Derby House (Glendale)

March 31, 2022

Architecture

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

Architecture

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.

#81: Hotel Glendale

March 20, 2022

Architecture

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

#76: John Lautner’s JW Schaffer House (Montrose)

February 27, 2022

Architecture

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.

#14: Glendale Southern Pacific Railroad Depot

October 19, 2021

Transportation

Hang out in a nearly 100-year-old transportation hub! Added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 1997 Originally built in 1924, this here has a restored churrigueresque[…]