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[1] [2] Combining art deco and neo-Gothic styles, the building was designed to suggest the sense of fantasy in the area, [3] and at 13 stories and in 183 feet in height, it was the tallest building in Los Angeles from 1927 to 1932. [4]
English: Location map of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area — which encompasses Los Angeles County and Orange County in Southern California. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 120.0 %. Geographic limits of the map:
La Brea Avenue is a prominent north-south thoroughfare in the City of Los Angeles and in Los Angeles County, California. 1927 Los Angeles Times map shows (1) the proposed extension of a 100-foot-wide La Brea Avenue between Jefferson Street through the Baldwin Hills toward Inglewood .
The Hollywood Bowl is located at the northern end of Highland, just below U.S. Route 101. [4] The Hollywood Heritage Museum, Highland-Camrose Bungalow Village, and American Legion Post 43 are also located on Highland in this area, as is Hollywood United Methodist Church, located at Highland and Franklin Avenue.
Park La Brea (Spanish: La Brea—"The tar", after the nearby La Brea Tar Pits) is an apartment community in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles, California.With 4,255 units located in eighteen 13-story towers and thirty-one two-story buildings, it is among the largest apartment complexes in the continental United States. [1]
According to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, the Equitable Building "exhibits many character-defining features of the Late Gothic Revival and Art Deco styles, including: Rectangular massings with emphasis on verticality created by slightly projecting piers; Wrought iron flourishes, including tall finials and cresting; Emphasis on ...
A Florida woman who allegedly snatched a three-year-old boy from his fenced-in yard and ran off down the street last week told the cops she shouldn’t be arrested because she “gave it back ...
Security Trust and Savings was built in 1921 and upon opening was the tallest building in Hollywood. [1] It features Italian Renaissance revival architecture and was designed by John and Donald Parkinson, [2] [3] who also designed some of the Los Angeles's most notable landmarks, including Union Station and the Memorial Coliseum.