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In 1912 it moved into its own new Los Angeles Athletic Club Building at 431 West Seventh Street in Downtown Los Angeles. The twelve-story Beaux-Arts style clubhouse was designed for the LAAC by John Parkinson and George Bergstrom, and is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. The building was notable for being the first in Southern ...
The Elks Lodge No. 99 / Park Plaza Hotel, now The MacArthur, is located at 607 Park View Street across from MacArthur Park in the Westlake district of Los Angeles, California. Completed in 1926, it was designed by architect Claud Beelman , later to become renowned an Art Deco designer, when he was practicing as Curlett + Beelman.
The New York Athletic Club is a private social club and athletic club in New York state. Founded in 1868, [1] the club has approximately 8,600 members and two facilities: the City House, located at 180 Central Park South in Manhattan, and Travers Island, located in Westchester County. Membership in the club is by invitation only. [2]
Horning is situated on the River Bure (pronounced locally "Burr") between Wroxham and Ludham. A ferry plied across the river for more than 1,000 years. Horning has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086, noted under the name 'Horningam'. [7] In 1086, Horning had 18 villagers, 11 'smallholders', 4 cattle, 10 pigs, 360 sheep and the taxable value ...
The Barclay Hotel is a historic hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Located at the corner of 4th Street and Main Street, it was originally owned by real estate developer Isaac Newton Van Nuys and opened as the Van Nuys Hotel in 1897. The six-story building was designed by architecture firm Morgan and Walls in the Beaux-Arts style.
Hotel Figueroa (also the Figueroa Hotel, colloquially The Fig) is a hotel building in the South Park district of Downtown Los Angeles. Originally opened as a hostelry exclusive to women, the hotel underwent a transformation into a Moroccan-themed space in the 1970s before being restored to its initial Spanish Colonial architecture in 2014.
It was a 555-room hotel. [1] Later, the hotel turned into a low-rent apartment building. [3] It was acquired by JCG Financial Co., [3] followed by Sunday Inn Inc.. [4] When they tried to evict the tenants and turn it into a luxury hotel again in 1979, the tenants filed a lawsuit accusing them of harassment and won. [3]
Designed by John M. Cooper [2] and/or E. M. Frasier, [3] the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce cite the Knickerbocker as opening as a luxury apartment house in 1925 and then converting to a hotel, [1] while the United States Department of the Interior cite the Knickerbocker as opening as a hotel 1929. [2] Los Angeles's Water and Power Associates ...