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  2. Ellwood Zimmerman House - Wikipedia

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    Ellwood was known for using industrial materials such as glass, steel and concrete in his architecture, which allowed his office to produce lower cost homes. [1] [9] The Zimmerman House was exemplary of the California modernist style indicative of Ellwood, and other architects of the time such as Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig and Richard ...

  3. Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia

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    Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...

  4. Stahl House - Wikipedia

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    In 1999, the house was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. [5] In 2007, the American Institute of Architects listed the Stahl House (#140) as one of the top 150 structures on its " America's Favorite Architecture " list, one of only eleven in Southern California , and the only privately owned home on the list.

  5. Falcon Lair - Wikipedia

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    Falcon Lair is an estate above Benedict Canyon in Bel Air, Los Angeles. The estate was built in 1925 by Rudolph Valentino , who named it after his unproduced film, The Hooded Falcon . [ 1 ] It is better known as a residence of heiress Doris Duke .

  6. Chemosphere - Wikipedia

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    The Chemosphere is a modernist house in Los Angeles, California, designed by John Lautner in 1960. The building, which the Encyclopædia Britannica once called "the most modern home built in the world", [1] is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design.

  7. Walter L. Dodge House - Wikipedia

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    The 16-room house was designed by Gill in 1914 and built between 1914 and 1916 for Walter Luther Dodge, maker of "Tiz," a patented medicine for tired feet. [1] The reinforced-concrete house blended Spanish Mission and Modern architectural styles. [2]

  8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles

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    Historic district adjacent to Central Avenue Corridor in South Los Angeles; part of the African Americans in Los Angeles Multiple Property Submission (MPS) 2: 52nd Place Historic District: 52nd Place Historic District: June 11, 2009 : Along E. 52nd Place [6

  9. Phillips Mansion - Wikipedia

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    The Phillips Mansion is a Second Empire style historic house in Pomona, Los Angeles County, California. It was built in 1875 by Louis Phillips, who by the 1890s had become the wealthiest man in Los Angeles County. Situated along the Butterfield Stage route, the Phillips Mansion became a center of community activity in the Pomona and Spadra area.