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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.
Los Angeles is the location of more than 250 of these properties and districts, including 11 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately. Pasadena is the location of 130 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; they, too, are listed separately. The 202 properties and districts located elsewhere in ...
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.
This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past.It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas.
Here is a timeline of the major fires near Los Angeles. They have left at least 28 people dead and destroyed more than 16,000 structures. Crews have been battling the blazes since the first one ...
Miller and Herriott House - This Eastlake Victorian house is itself separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has also been designated as a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument (HCM #242). House at 1120 W. 27th St.—This Queen Anne Victorian house was designed by Bradbeer & Ferris and was built in approximately 1894. [11]
Nestled in a quiet enclave of Los Angeles’s historic Miracle Mile—set among an array of similarly landmarked, early 20th-century properties—is a quintessentially charming Mediterranean-style ...
Pacific Palisades is a neighborhood in the Westside region of the city of Los Angeles, California, situated about 20 miles (32 km) west of downtown Los Angeles. [8] Starting on January 7, 2025, the majority of Pacific Palisades was severely affected and destroyed by the Palisades Fire, a part of the wider, and ongoing, Southern California wildfires.