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Southern California Edison Company Building, Los Angeles; Southern California Gas Company Complex, Downtown Los Angeles, 1925; Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, 1911; Spring Street Courthouse, Los Angeles, 1940; Storer House, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, 1924; Sun Realty Company Building (now Los Angeles Jewelry Center), Los Angeles, 1930
J. Mora Moss House is a boldly romantic Carpenter Gothic style Victorian home located within Mosswood Park in Oakland, California.It was built in 1864, bought by Oakland in 1912 and documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1960 at which point it was pronounced "One of the finest, if not the finest, existing examples of Gothic architecture of French and English influence as ...
A ruff from the early 17th century: detail from The Regentesses of St Elizabeth Hospital, Haarlem, by Verspronck A ruff from the 1620s. A ruff is an item of clothing worn in Western, Central and Northern Europe, as well as Spanish America, from the mid-16th century to the mid-17th century.
The Second Los Angeles Aqueduct Cascades near Sylmar, California. The Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley are spread across the Valley from Chatsworth in the northwest to Studio City in the southeast, and from the City of Calabasas in the southwest to Tujunga and La Crescenta in the northeast.
The wooden chapel was designed by San Francisco architect Charles Geddes in the Carpenter Gothic style.It was built by Geddes' son-in-law, Samuel Thompson of San Francisco, for the California State Sunday School Association, at a cost of between three or four thousand dollars.
English nobleman Grey Brydges wearing a piccadill, painted by William Larkin c. 1615. A piccadill or pickadill is a large broad collar of cut-work lace that became fashionable in the late 16th century and early 17th century. [1]
The Stow House was once the headquarters of Rancho La Patera, on the original Rancho La Goleta.In 1871, William Whitney Stow, a legal counsel for Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco, purchased 1,043 acres (4.22 km 2) costing $28,677 for his son, Sherman P. Stow. Sherman Stow built a Carpenter Gothic Victorian home on the site and moved into the house with his bride, Ida G. Hollister, in ...
Chapel of the Chimes was founded as California Electric Crematory in 1909 as a crematory and columbarium at 4499 Piedmont Avenue, at the entrance of Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California. The present building dates largely from a 1928 redevelopment based on the designs of the architect Julia Morgan . [ 1 ]