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Cheney Block was built in 1913 and its facade was remodeled in by S. Charles Lee in the 1940s. [1] [2] The building was designed for retail and has had numerous occupants over the years, including an ice cream shop in 1913, [3] a restaurant in 1927, [4] College Boot Shop in 1928, [5] Steven's Shops Inc. in 1936, [2] Leed's shoe store in 1942, [6] and numerous others.
A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, or concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.
The house consists of two buildings, the main house and a smaller chauffeur's apartment/garage, separated by a paved courtyard. Unlike the vertical orientation of the other three block houses, the Ennis House has a long horizontal loggia spine on the northern side, connecting public and private rooms to the south, and is very large at 6,200 sq ft (580 m 2). [9]
Silicon Beach is the Westside region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area that is home to more than 500 technology companies, including startups.It is particularly applied to the coastal strip from Los Angeles International Airport north to the Santa Monica Mountains, [1] but the term may be applied loosely or colloquially to most anywhere in the Los Angeles Basin.
1 Cal Plaza, formerly known as One California Plaza, is a 176-meter skyscraper located in the Bunker Hill District of downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. With a second skyscraper, Two California Plaza , it comprises the California Plaza project.
The towers were designed by Arthur Erickson Architects and named BOMA Building of the Year in 1997 and 2001. [6] California Plaza was a ten-year, US$1.2 billion project. Started in 1983, the Two California Plaza tower was completed in 1992 during a significant slump in the downtown Los Angeles real estate market.
The Hub was a large clothing store that operated in Downtown Los Angeles from 1896 [1] until late 1922. The Hub opened on March 16, 1896 [1] at 154 (154–200) N. Spring St. in the Bullard Block. In August of that same year, it was purchased by Hyams, Brown, and Co. In January 1909, Jack Hammer took over as president from Mr. A. L. Brown. [2]
Mapping L.A. was a 2009 project of the Los Angeles Times. It identified 158 cities and unincorporated areas within Los Angeles County, California. It also drew boundary lines for 114 neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles and 42 unincorporated areas where the statistics were merged with those of adjacent cities.