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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 was built in the 1950s and served the neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, between Santa Monica and Malibu, on the western side of Los Angeles County. The church was organized by "Fr. Richard Cotter, a buoyant Irishman from Cork and the director of the Catholic Youth Organization." [1] The congregation originally met in the local YMCA. [1]
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 ]
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]
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 ...
NO. 144 NUESTRA SEÑORA LA REINA DE LOS ANGELES - La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles-the Church of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels-was dedicated on December 8, 1822 during California's Mexican era. Originally known as La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles, the church was the only Catholic church for the pueblo.
Downtown Los Angeles: Victorian Gothic church built in 1901; destroyed by fire in 1983; delisted September 4, 1963. 17: Saint Vibiana's Cathedral: May 10, 1963: 114 E. Second St. Downtown Los Angeles: Church dedicated in 1876 and extensively renovated in 1922 26: First Cemetery of Los Angeles: March 20, 1964: 521 N. Main St. Old Plaza District
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."