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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]
The Ramsay-Durfee Estate, also known as Durfee Mansion, Durfee House or Villa Maria, is a historic Tudor Revival style mansion in the West Adams Terrace neighborhood of Los Angeles. It has been designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Garbutt lived in the 20-room mansion built between 1926 and 1928 that came to be known as Garbutt House. The house has nearly 15,000 square feet (1,400 m 2) of space, rises 228 feet (69 m) to its crest and was built like a citadel out of concrete to survive earthquakes and floods, [2] but mostly due to Garbutt's fear of fire. [5]
Mapping L.A. is a project of the Los Angeles Times, beginning in 2009, to draw boundary lines for 158 cities and unincorporated places within Los Angeles County, California. It identified 114 neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles and 42 unincorporated areas where the statistics were merged with those of adjacent cities. [1]
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In Los Angeles, the first Tudor style buildings were built in the early 1900s, and the style became popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s, especially in suburban areas. The Tudor Revival style is an architectural style that grew out of the 19th century movement away from the "modern" industrial revolution and towards a more "romantic" historicism.
The mansion is a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m 2) Mediterranean Revival mansion on 4.5 acres. It was designed by architect Robert D. Farquhar and built in 1923. When it was the opulent residence of silent film star Antonio Moreno and his wife and oil heiress Daisy Canfield Moreno, daughter of pioneer oilman Charles A. Canfield, it was the scene for lavish Sunday afternoon parties for members of ...
Salinas Valley, on River Road near Marina. The city of Greenfield is located in the heart of the Salinas Valley, between the Gabilan Range to the east and the Santa Lucia Range to the west. Greenfield is approximately 145 miles (233 km) by highway south of San Francisco, 95 miles (153 km) south of San Jose and 65 miles (105 km) north of Paso ...