Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The city of Los Angeles, a leading center of the world's fashion industry, moved on Tuesday toward becoming the largest U.S. metropolis to outlaw the sale and manufacture of most fur products ...
Garbutt lived in the 20-room mansion built between 1926 and 1928 that came to be known as Garbutt House. The house has nearly 15,000 square feet (1,400 m 2) of space, rises 228 feet (69 m) to its crest and was built like a citadel out of concrete to survive earthquakes and floods, [2] but mostly due to Garbutt's fear of fire. [5]
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The Ramsay-Durfee Estate, also known as Durfee Mansion, Durfee House or Villa Maria, is a historic Tudor Revival style mansion in the West Adams Terrace neighborhood of Los Angeles. It has been designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
In 1952, the Los Angeles Times described the origins of the Pisgah Home movement: "He (Yoakum) walked the back streets, among the down-and-outers, calling on them to give themselves to Christ. One by one at first, and then in droves, society's outcasts heeded and followed the fervent doctor with the white hair and trimly clipped white beard.
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.
The 12,600-square-foot (1,170 m 2) Tuscan-style mansion was designed by architect Robert D. Farquhar in 1937, [1] [2] [3] and was the largest house in Los Angeles when it was built. [1] It has two stories, six bedrooms and two staff bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and five half-bathrooms, a tennis court, a pool house, a swimming pool, a theatre ...
The Robert Taylor Ranch is a ranch located on Mandeville Canyon Road, in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, California. The ranch was built in 1956 for Waite Phillips and designed by architect Robert Byrd. [1] It is about 112 acres (0.45 km 2) large, with more than 20,000 square feet of living space. [1]