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The club was founded by abolitionist, suffragist, mother, and Los Angeles homemaker Caroline Severance in 1891, with 87 other women in the reading room of the Hollenbeck Hotel, then located at Second and Broadway. [2] The Friday Morning Club became the largest women's club in California, with membership of over 1,800 women by the 1920s. [3] [4] [5]
The Woman's Building was a non-profit arts and education center located in Los Angeles, California. The Woman's Building focused on feminist art and served as a venue for the women's movement and was spearheaded by artist Judy Chicago , graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and art historian Arlene Raven . [ 1 ]
Woman's Building. The Los Angeles Woman's Building was the subject of a major exhibition in 2012 at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design called Doin' It in Public, Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building. It included oral histories on video, emphemera, and artists' projects. It was part of the Getty initiative Pacific ...
Los Angeles Athletic Club Building September 16, 1970: 431 W. Seventh St. Downtown Los Angeles: Beaux Arts building designed by Parkinson & Bergstrom in 1912; received publicity on opening for its 100-foot (30 m)-long swimming pool on the sixth floor 71: First African Methodist Episcopal Church: January 6, 1971: 801 Towne Ave. (at 8th St.)
Next to come may be a 139-room boutique hotel across Broadway from the Herald Examiner Building. A Los Angeles developer has proposed to the city to build a Hyatt Centric at 1140 S. Broadway. The ...
When Pierce Marshall died in 2006, Elaine gained control of her husband's Koch Industries shares -- which Howard Marshall had called "the Crown Jewels" -- and got a seat on the company's nine ...
The building was designed by Sumner P. Hunt and built in 1893. [3] It was originally an experimental kindergarten and has also been used over the years as a prestigious college preparatory school for girls, an inn and restaurant, a military barracks in World War II, the headquarters of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics Foundation, and a shelter for homeless women.
Pete White, executive director of the Skid Row advocacy group Los Angeles Community Action Network, said he sees the towers as "one important feature of what a stabilized Skid Row can look like ...