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Los Angeles Athletic Club Building September 16, 1970: 431 W. Seventh St. Downtown Los Angeles: Beaux Arts building designed by Parkinson & Bergstrom in 1912; received publicity on opening for its 100-foot (30 m)-long swimming pool on the sixth floor 71: First African Methodist Episcopal Church: January 6, 1971: 801 Towne Ave. (at 8th St.)
Little Tokyo is still a cultural focal point for Los Angeles's Japanese American population. [21] It is mainly a work, cultural, religious, restaurant and shopping district, because Japanese Americans today are likely to live in nearby cities such as Torrance, Gardena, and Monterey Park, as well as the Sawtelle district in the Westside of Los ...
This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. The list includes Hollywood, as well as Griffith Park and the communities of Los Feliz and Little Armenia. There are more than 148 Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCM) in this area. They are designated by the city's Cultural Heritage ...
Historic Filipinotown (alternately known as HiFi [1]) is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles.. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods (Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, and Thai Town) in the city that received federal recognition as a Preserve America neighborhood.
Los Angeles-based architecture firm Meyer & Holler, which previously partnered with Grauman on the Egyptian, designed the "palace-type" Chinese Theatre. Raymond M. Kennedy served as principal architect on the project. In October 1925, local newspapers published an artist's impression of the planned theater's facade.
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 7,800 residents.
Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple (Chinese: 佛光山西來寺; pinyin: Fóguāngshān Xīlái Sì) is a mountain monastery in the northern Puente Hills, Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County, California. The name Hsi Lai means "coming west". Hsi Lai Temple is a branch of Fo Guang Shan, a Buddhist organization from Taiwan. It is the order's first ...
Singer Building was built in 1922 by Meyer and Holler, [1] the architecture firm also responsible for Hollywood's Chinese and Egyptian theaters and Hollywood First National. [2] The building's original tenants were the Southern California Music Company , who used it for sales and also hosted concerts in a top floor auditorium, [ 3 ] and the ...