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It is considered one of the finest Victorian homes in Los Angeles and was named a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument (HCM #240) in 1981. [7] Maria Antonia Arguella Wilcox House, 1100 w. Adams Blvd.—This Spanish Colonial Revival-style house was reportedly designed by architect, Frederick Roehrig in approximately 1899. It later became the ...
South Los Angeles: Boyhood home of 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche, first African American to receive the award 39: Bungalow Court at 1516 N. Serrano Avenue: Bungalow Court at 1516 N. Serrano Avenue: September 16, 2010 : 1516–1528½ N. Serrano Ave.
Location of Los Angeles County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California, excluding the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena.
Century-old homes are living, breathing pieces of history. Their architectural design, building materials, craftsmanship, and remnants of past residents beautifully reflect the era in which they ...
This is a List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the Westside.In total, there are more than 85 Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCM) on the Westside, and a handful of additional sites that have been recognized by the Cultural Heritage Commission for having been designated as California Historical Landmarks or having been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
John Sowden House, also known as the "Jaws House" or the "Franklin House", is a residence built in 1926 in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California by Lloyd Wright. The house is noted for its use of ornamented textile blocks and for its striking facade, resembling (depending on the viewer's points of cultural reference) either a Mayan ...
The designated homes were built between 1902 and 1905 and reflect a rich eclecticism in their architectural style. They include Craftsman , Victorian, Mission, Tudor, and Shingle style architecture. A real estate brochure from 1903 described the neighborhood this way: "The only exclusive Residential Tract in the city.
Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state in defiance of the Reformation.