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Pisgah Home Historic District is a historic district in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was the site of the Pisgah Home movement begun by faith healer and social reformer, Finis E. Yoakum, in the early 1900s. The site is closely aligned with the founding of the modern Pentecostal church. [2]
June 11, 2009 (Along 27th Street [5: South Los Angeles: Historic district adjacent to Central Avenue Corridor in South Los Angeles; part of the African Americans in Los Angeles Multiple Property Submission (MPS)
The church as dedicated in May 1906 with seating for 1,000 persons and, according to the Los Angeles Times, "everything being modern and up-to-date." [ 16 ] In 1911, the Salem Congregational Church successfully lobbied for an ordinance permitting the display of "moving pictures" in churches after the pastor, Rev. B. H. Reutepohler, hit upon a ...
The 100-seat church was designed by Lloyd Wright (son of Frank Lloyd Wright) in the late 1940s and was built between 1949 and 1951, at a cost of $25,000. [1] Additions were built in later years, including a tower and a visitor center, the latter of which had been lost in a landslide during the 1960s. [ 2 ]
The church was founded in 1915 by R. A. Torrey. [1] The services were held at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (Biola University), in a 4,000 seat auditorium. [2] [3] [4] J. Vernon McGee was pastor of the church from 1949 to 1970. [5] The church relocated to Glendora, California in 1985. [1]
The church was designed by Los Angeles architect Chauncey Fitch Skilling, in what architectural critic Sam Hall Kaplan described as "a splendid example of the soaring French Gothic Revival style, with an exterior marked by a stained-glass rose window above the entry and an interior of beam trusses, columns and arches, a carved wood pulpit, chandeliers and oak furnishings."
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Catholic church and elementary school in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is one of the oldest parishes in the San Fernando Valley, dating back to 1921. It has long been a parish with celebrity members and was the site of funerals for Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, and Robert Urich, among other notables.
Forthmann House, 2014. National Historic Landmarks: South Los Angeles includes some of the city's most historic sites, including three National Historic Landmarks.The sites receiving this high designation are: (1) the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, built in 1923, and used as the principal site of the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games; [2] (2) the Watts Towers (HCM #15), a collection of 17 ...