Historical Landmarks

This unique five-story office building was- built in 1893 for Louis Bradbury (who owned it until 1944). George Herbert Wyman was only 32 when he designed the structure and had no formal architectural or engineering training at that time. A heavy sandstone exterior leaves one unprepared for the cage of light filled glass within. The […]

The Pacific Electric (PE) Building is significant under Criterion A for its association with the Pacific Electric Railway and, subsequently, Southern Pacific Railroad, a locally significant mass transit system. The property retains a high degree of integrity following an adaptive reuse project that converted the rail station and offices into residential apartment units. Its integrity

Brief Historic Background Toward the end of the 1920s, when the building boom had engulfed the Los Angeles central district, the work of more forward-thinking architects turned away from the Beaux Arts tradition and Revivalism, which characterized that decade, and began to “break with the past and to experiment with the modern idiom of the period. The sizeable number

The Oviatt Building was the synthesis of James Oviatt’s business acumen, style, and sense of design. Although numerous architects, engineers, designers, and craftsmen contributed their talents to the creation of this building, the enemble was orchestrated by Mr. Oviatt. At the time the structure was completed in 1928 and fifty years later when it was rehabilitated, the Oviatt Building has set

A fine example of the late work of Bertram G. Goodhue in which the Mexican late baroque is integrated in the simple massing typical of the International Style; its direction was very close to the Setback Style in which the masses were surfaces to receive decoration. The building is set in gardens which are vitally

The Angelus Temple, located on Glendale Boulevard in Los Angeles, California is historically significant as the base of operations for Aimee Semple McPherson, a pioneer in the field of radio evangelism. McPherson set a number of important precedents for women in religion in the early part of the 20th century. She was the first woman to receive an

The Cahuenga Branch Library is significant for its cultural role as part of the history of the East Hollywood community. It is a notable architectural design, and was the last and the smallest of the six branch libraries of the Los Angeles Public Library big huge system built with a $200,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. The Cahuenga

Hollywood Cemetery, located in the central area of Hollywood, California at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard, was the first cemetery to be built in Hollywood (1899) and is one of the earliest examples of the lawn-park style cemetery in California. The period of significance begins in 1899 with the founding of the cemetery and ends in 1939 with

This property is significant in many respects: for its association with many of the most important American film actresses; for its role in the development of the Hollywood studio “star system”; and for its architectural merit and as a work of Julia Morgan, one of California’s most prominent architects (Criterion C).  Beginning in the mid-1920s,