User:Cbl62/Articles on architecture and historic sites

(Complete 5/21/07-7/24/20)

Architects and builders

1. Architects of the National Park Service
2. John C. Austin DYK ... that English-born architect John C. Austin designed several landmark buildings in Southern California, including the Griffith Observatory and Los Angeles City Hall?
3. Fred Brinkman DYK ... that more than ten works by Kalispell, Montana, architect Fred Brinkman have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
4. Florence Casler DYK ... that after moving to Los Angeles in 1912 as a widow with two daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer, constructing more than 60 buildings?
5. Champion Bridge Co. DYK ... that Champion Bridge Co. was charged with criminal antitrust violations in 1906 as part of the Ohio Attorney General's "war on the bridge trust"?
6. Henry W. Cleaveland DYK ... that the works of Henry W. Cleaveland, a founding member of the American Institute of Architects, include the original Palace Hotel, San Francisco?
7. D. F. Creighton (architect) [expanded 2012]
8. Jeremiah Cunningham (bridge builder) [expanded 2012]
9. Orlo Epps DYK ... that Greensboro, North Carolina, architect Orlo Epps was also a professor of mathematics and physics and a socialist?
10. Esenwein & Johnson (architects) [expanded 2012]
11. George Feick (builder) [expanded 2012]
12. James Otis Follett (architect) [expanded 2012]
13. Elmer Grey DYK ... that architect and artist Elmer Grey designed the Beverly Hills Hotel and Huntington Art Gallery, and his watercolors are in the collection of the Chicago Art Institute? ... that Gustav Stickley's The Craftsman magazine called Elmer Grey a pioneer "in the development of the new American architecture" based upon the design of Cochran House?
14. Leon C. Goodrich (architects) [expanded 2012]
15. F. A. Henninger (architect) [expanded 2012]
16. Kilham & Hopkins (architects) [expanded 2012]
17. Albert C. Martin, Sr. DYK ... that architect Albert C. Martin successfully defended his design of the 28-story Los Angeles City Hall against those who argued the city government could fit into the first four floors?
18. Parkinson & Dockendorff (architects) [expanded 2012]
19. Patton & Fisher (architects) [expanded 2012]
20. Frederic Hutchinson Porter (architect) [expanded 2012]
21. Charles Punchard, Jr. (a pioneer in the form of "rustic architecture" that became known as "National Park Service rustic" architecture)
22. Charles M. Robinson DYK ... that Charles M. Robinson was the College Architect for the College of William and Mary and designed more than 15 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
23. Frederick Roehrig DYK ... that Frederick Roehrig's Castle Green in Pasadena was called "a fantastic folly created from the imagination of a Victorian architect with a penchant for Arabesque opulence"?
24. Alfred Rosenheim DYK ... that architect Alfred Rosenheim doubted whether modern architecture could strictly be regarded as architecture?
25. Merel S. Sager (pioneer of "National Park Service rustic" architecture) [started 2012]
26. Ysrael Seinuk DYK ... that Ysrael Seinuk came to the United States with little more than "my slide rule and my diploma from the University of Havana" and became known as "Mr. New York"?
27. Shirley Simons (Texas architect) [expanded 2012]
28. Walter Mickle Smith (water engineer) [expanded 2012]
29. Thompson-Starrett Co. DYK ... that Thompson-Starrett Co. built six National Historic Landmarks in the U.S., including the Rockefeller Estate and the Woolworth Building, the tallest skyscraper in the world from 1913 to 1930?
30. Horace G. Wadlin (architect) [expanded 2012]
31. Joseph C. Wells DYK ... that the works of Joseph C. Wells, a founding member of the American Institute of Architects, include "Old First" in Greenwich Village?
32. C. Ferris White DYK ... that C. Ferris White designed more than 1,100 buildings in the State of Washington]] and over 300 more in the company town of Potlatch, Idaho?
33. John Wosky DYK ... that John Wosky designed a number of historic structures at Yosemite National Park, including Crane Flat Fire Lookout and the Generals' Highway Stone Bridges?
34. Arthur and Nina Zwebell [created 2008]

Historic sites

Los Angeles County

City of Los Angeles

1. National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles, California DYK ... that the City of Los Angeles has 186 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California
3. List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the East and Northeast Sides [created 2009]
4. List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Silver Lake, Angelino Heights, and Echo Park [created 2009]
5. List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Downtown Los Angeles [created 2009]
6. List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Wilshire and Westlake areas [created 2009]
7. Alvarado Terrace Historic District DYK ... that the Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that was the LA home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass suicide in Jonestown?
8. Avenel Cooperative Housing Project DYK ... that units in LA's Avenel Cooperative Housing Project, reportedly built as "a cooperative living experiment for a group of communists", were selling for US$300,000 in 2002?
9. Board of Trade Building DYK ... that LA's Board of Trade Building, site of the California Stock Exchange, was the first office building on the Pacific coast with automated elevators?
10. [Susana Machado Bernard House and Barn] [created 2008]
11. Birthplace of Adlai E. Stevenson II (West Adams) [expanded 2008]
12. Eugene W. Britt House DYK ... that the largest sports research library in North America is located on the grounds of LA's Britt House, a Colonial Revival mansion built in 1910?
13. Broadway Theater District (Los Angeles) DYK ... that the Broadway Theater District, with 12 movie palaces in six blocks, is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
14. Brockman Building (building on NRHP in downtown LA) [created 2011]
15. Bryson Apartment Hotel DYK ... that The Bryson, featured in Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake and the neo-noir film The Grifters, has become a symbol of LA's film noir past?
16. Casa de Rosas (West Adams) [created 2008]
17. Charlie Chaplin Studios DYK ... that Charlie Chaplin Studios, founded in 1917 and now home to Jim Henson Productions, has a 12-foot (3.7 m) color statue of Kermit the Frog dressed as the "Little Tramp" above the main gate?
18. Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home DYK ... that the Clark Memorial Home, built in 1913 as a home for single working women, has been a shooting location for Rocketeer, Twins, and Mr. Saturday Night?
19. Ebell of Los Angeles DYK ... that young Judy Garland was discovered, and Amelia Earhart made her last public appearance, at Ebell of Los Angeles?
20. El Greco Apartments DYK ... that the El Greco Apartments, once home to Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy?
21. El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument [created 2008]
22. Engine House No. 18 (West Adams) [created 2008]
23. Engine Company No. 28 [created 2008]
24. Exposition Park Rose Garden DYK ... that LA's Exposition Park Rose Garden has more than 20,000 rose bushes and 200 varieties of roses?
25. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch [created 2008]
26. Fire Station No. 14 (Los Angeles) [created 2011]
27. Fire Station No. 23 (Los Angeles, California) DYK ... that LA's Fire Station No. 23 has been a location in over 50 film productions, including Ghostbusters headquarters and scenes from The Mask and National Security?
28. Forthmann House (Victorian house built in 1880s in West Adams) [created 2008]
29. Foy House (Victorian Italianate-style house built in 1872, eighth property in LA to receive Historical-Cultural Monument status) [created 2009]
30. Friday Morning Club [created 2008]
31. Samuel Freeman House
32. Garbutt House DYK ... that the 20-room Garbutt House in Los Angeles, California was built with concrete walls and ceilings, steel-reinforced doors and no fireplaces due to the owner's intense fear of fire?
33. General Petroleum Building [created 2008, expanded 2017]
34. Gerry Building [created 2008]
35. Granada Shoppes and Studios [created 2008]
36. Edward Alexander Kelley Hackett House [created 2008]
37. Halifax Apartments [created 2008]
38. Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building DYK ... that the Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building was built in 1928 with bricks salvaged from the old Los Angeles city hall?
39. Holmes-Shannon House [created 2008]
40. Hotel Chancellor [created 2008]
41. Hyde Park Congregational Church (Los Angeles, California) (demolished 1965) [created 2008]
42. Libraries: Angeles Mesa Branch, Cahuenga Branch, Richard Henry Dana Branch, Felipe De Neve Branch, John C. Fremont Branch, Washington Irving Branch, Helen Hunt Jackson Branch, Jefferson Branch, Lincoln Heights Branch, Malabar Branch, Memorial Branch, Moneta Branch, John Muir Branch, Robert Louis Stevenson Branch, Venice Branch, Vermont Square Branch, Wilmington Branch, Wilshire Branch. DYK ... that the Vermont Square, Lincoln Heights, and Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles?
43. Harold Lloyd Estate DYK ... that Harold Lloyd's Estate, called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a golf course and a 900-foot canoe stream?
44. Los Altos Apartments [created 2008]
45. Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial DYK ... that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an
46. Los Angeles Nurses' Club [created 2008]
47. Los Angeles Plaza Historic District DYK ... that the Plaza Historic District was the historic center of Los Angeles in the days of Spanish and Mexican rule?
48. Lummis House (Rustic American Craftsman stone house built by Charles Fletcher Lummis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the edge of Arroyo Seco )[created 2008]
49. Machell-Seaman House [created 2008]
50. Menlo Avenue-West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District DYK ... that the Menlo Avenue Historic District in Los Angeles reflects the transition to American Craftsman style architecture? [created 2008]
51. Frederick Mitchell Mooers House DYK ... that Mooers House, an example of West Coast Victorian architecture, is named for its owner who struck gold after years of prospecting in the Mojave Desert?
52. Miller and Herriott House DYK ... that original stained glass from the Miller and Herriott House was removed to a restaurant near Disneyland, prompting one writer to compare the new glass to the wooden leg on Sara Bernhardt?
53. Neutra Office Building DYK ... that the Neutra Office Building, once the office of Modernist architect Richard Neutra, is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design?
54. Neutra VDL Studio and Residences DYK ... that architect Richard Neutra used mirrors and reflecting pools to provide spaciousness for his home on a small lot, the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, on Silver Lake in Los Angeles?
55. North University Park Historic District DYK ... that North University Park in Los Angeles contains many well-preserved Victorian houses and was the birthplace of U.S. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson? [created 2008]
56. James Oviatt Building [created 2008]
57. Palm Court (Alexandria Hotel) DYK ... that the Palm Court, called "the most beautiful room in Los Angeles," has been the site of speeches by Presidents Taft and Wilson and balls where Rudolph Valentino danced with starlets?
58. Petitfils-Boos House [created 2008]
59. Pico Boulevard [created 2008]
60. Plaza Substation [created 2008]
61. Ramsay-Durfee Estate DYK ... that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion' died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched wine cellar stocked with vintage wines and whisky dating to the 1890s?
62. Frederick Hastings Rindge House (West Adams mansion) [created 2008]
63. Roosevelt Building [created 2008]
64. St. James Park Historic District [created 2008]
65. St. John's Cathedral (built in 1925 downtown) [created 2008]
66. The Salt Box DYK ... that The Salt Box, one of the first Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, was razed by fire seven months after being relocated to make room for a $500 million skyscraper development?
67. San Fernando Building DYK ... that the San Fernando Building in Los Angeles, California, recently converted into upscale lofts, was raided several times for illegal gambling operations between 1910 and 1930?
68. Santa Fe Freight Depot DYK ... that Sci-Arc architecture school built its Los Angeles campus from the 1907 Santa Fe Freight Depot, a concrete structure with 120 bays stretching as long as the Empire State Building is tall?
69. Security Building (Los Angeles) [expanded 2008]
70. Security Trust and Savings [created 2008]
71. Smith Estate (Highland Park) [created 2008]
72. South Bonnie Brae Tract Historic District [created 2008]
73. South Park Lofts DYK ... that South Park Lofts in Los Angeles, originally an eight-story parking garage, was converted to lofts, whereupon residents complained about a lack of parking?
74. Southern California Gas Company Complex [created 2008]
75. South Serrano Avenue Historic District [created 2008]
76. John Sowden House DYK ... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark?
77. Spring Street Financial District DYK ... that the Spring Street Financial District, known as the "Wall Street of the West", contains Los Angeles's first skyscraper and more than twenty historic financial buildings?
78. Stimson House DYK ... that after surviving a dynamite attack in 1896, fraternity parties in the 1940s, and an earthquake in 1994, Stimson House is now a convent for Catholic nuns? (2008)
79. Superior Oil Company Building [created 2008]
80. Terminal Annex DYK ... that the Terminal Annex Post Office was LA's central mail processing facility for 50 years and became a filming location when it closed?
81. Textile Center Building [created 2008]
82. Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building [created 2008]
83. The Town House (former hotel property built in 1929 on Wilshire Boulevard, adjacent to Lafayette Park) [created in 2008]
84. Twentieth Street Historic District [created 2008]
85. United States Court House (Spring Street, Los Angeles) [created 2008]
86. Van Buren Place Historic District [created 2008]
87. Westlake Theatre [created 2011] operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios?
88. Widney Alumni House (oldest university building in Southern California, in continuous use since 1880) [created 2008]
89. Wilshire Boulevard Temple DYK ... that Wilshire Boulevard Temple, with its landmark Byzantine dome, is the oldest Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles?
90. Wilton Historic District [created 2008]
91. Ziegler Estate [created 2008]

East side

1. Breed Street Shul DYK ... that Breed Street Shul, now vacant in a Hispanic part of Los Angeles, was the largest Orthodox synagogue in the western United States from 1915 to 1951?
2. Golden Gate Theater DYK ... that the historic Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls? [East Los Angeles]
3. Mount Pleasant House (California) (Boyle Heights) [created 2008]
4. Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building (Los Angeles, California) DYK ... that boxer Oscar De La Hoya has been involved in efforts to redevelop the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building in the Boyle Heights neighborhood where he grew up? (2008)

Highland Park

1. Hale House DYK ... that the 1880s Victorian Hale House, with its exuberant ornamentation and color scheme, has been called "the most photographed house" in Los Angeles?
2. Highland Park Masonic Temple DYK ... that the old Lodge Room at the Highland Park Masonic Temple has been preserved with original anaglyphs and cherry wood paneling?
3. Highland Park Police Station DYK ... that the Highland Park Police Station, where the radical Symbionese Liberation Army once planted a bomb that proved to be a dud, is now the Los Angeles Police Museum?
4. Judson Studios DYK ... that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino?
5. Pisgah Home Historic District DYK ... that the Pisgah Home was the centre of a controversial movement in the early 1900s by a Pentecostal faith healer to care for the poor and downtrodden? [created 2008]
6. Smith Estate (Los Angeles, California) DYK ... that the Smith Estate was the home of a writer on occultism, the head of a railroad, and a deputy mayor, and the shooting location for the cult film Spider Baby?

Hollywood and West Hollywood

1. Andalusia (Spanish Colonial Revival apartment building in Hollywood designed by Arthur and Nina Zwebell) [created 2008]
2. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Hollywood DYK ... that Hollywood's Blessed Sacrament Church was the site of Bing Crosby's wedding and funerals for John Ford and Mack Sennett?
3. El Cabrillo DYK ... that El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor Divine, are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore"?
4. Walter L. Dodge House DYK ... that the 1916 Early Modern Dodge House in West Hollywood, California, called one of the fifteen most significant houses in the United States, was demolished in 1970 to make way for apartments?
5. Hacienda Arms Apartments DYK ... that Hacienda Arms on the Sunset Strip was the "most famous brothel in California" in the 1930s and now houses a celebrity-owned restaurant described by Newsweek as "so hip it hurts"?
6. Highland-Camrose Bungalow Village [created 2008]
7. Hollywood Masonic Temple DYK ... that the Neoclassical Hollywood Masonic Temple has been used as a Masonic Lodge, opera house, and nightclub, and is now the home of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! television show?
8. Hollywood Melrose Hotel [created 2008]
9. Hollywood Studio Club DYK ... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club? [created 2008]
10. Hollywood Tower [created 2008]
11. Jardinette Apartments ... that Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America? [created 2008]
12. KCET Studios DYK ... that KCET Studios, where Invasion of the Body Snatchers was filmed, is the longest continuously-producing studio in Hollywood?
13. Montecito Apartments DYK ... that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments (pictured) had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
14. Old Warner Brothers Studio DYK ... that the Old Warner Brothers Studio, where the first "talkie" was filmed in 1927, has recently been the location for Judge Judy and Hannah Montana?
15. St. Andrews Bungalow Court [created 2008]
16. Storer House DYK ... that Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work, Storer House, was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver, producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix?
17. Sunset Tower DYK ... that the Sunset Tower in West Hollywood, California was home to Howard Hughes, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, and gangster Bugsy Siegel, who was asked to leave after being charged with running a bookmaking operation there?
18. C.E. Toberman Estate DYK ... that the C.E. Toberman Estate was used as the "trophy" house of Vincent Chase on the first two seasons of HBO's Entourage?
19. Villa Bonita [created 2008]
20. Whitley Court [created 2008]

Glendale

1. Glendale Register of Historic Resources and Historic Districts [created 2019]
2. Catalina Verdugo Adobe [created 2019]
3. Statue of Miss American Green Cross [created 2019]

Long Beach

1. List of City of Long Beach historic landmarks [created 2009]
2. Bembridge House DYK ... that the namesake of the Victorian Bembridge House was strangled to death in 1999 at the house where she had lived for 81 years?
3. Breakers Hotel (Long Beach, California) DYK ... that the Sky Room atop the Breakers Hotel was the local Airwatch headquarters in World War II?
4. Los Cerritos Ranch House ("the largest and most impressive adobe residence erected in southern California during the Mexican period") [expanded a bit 2008]
5. Cooper Arms Apartments DYK ... that when Cooper Arms opened in Long Beach, California, it boasted the latest amenities, including "disappearing beds" and "dustless roller screens"?
6. First Congregational Church (Long Beach, California) DYK ... that a pastor of the First Congregational Church in Long Beach, California, vowed to defy an order to block homeless people from sleeping on the church steps?
7. Insurance Exchange Building DYK ... that the landmark Insurance Exchange Building in Long Beach, California, has housed a boy's clothing store, courthouse, dance studio, nightclub and Jamaican restaurant?
8. Leonie Pray House DYK ... that Leonie Pray House hosted recitals by Liberace and Risë Stevens and served as the home of Patrick Swayze's character in Donnie Darko?
9. Scottish Rite Cathedral (Long Beach, California) DYK ... that the Scottish Rite Cathedral, covered in some 250 tons of ornamental terra cotta, was among the first eight structures designated as a Long Beach Historic Landmark?
10. Long Beach Main Post Office DYK ... that the Long Beach Post Office has been called "Post-Quake Moderne" due to the local prevalence of the style after the Long Beach earthquake of 1933?
11. Villa Riviera DYK ... that the luxurious Villa Riviera was the second tallest building in Southern California from the time of its completion in 1929 through the mid-1950s?

Pasadena

1. National Register of Historic Places listings in Pasadena, California DYK ... that there are nearly 100 Registered Historic Places in Pasadena, California, including a 25-foot Space Simulator and the JPL Space Flight Operations Facility?
2. El Molino Viejo DYK ... that El Molino Viejo, a grist mill built in 1816 by native Indian converts from the San Gabriel Mission, is the oldest commercial building in Southern California?
3. Millard House DYK ... that Frank Lloyd Wright said of the Millard House that he "would rather have built this little house than St. Peter's in Rome"?
4. Pasadena Civic Center District
5. St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Pasadena DYK ... that when St. Andrew's Church in Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a Byzantine queen"?

San Fernando Valley

1. List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley DYK ... that a tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body" is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument?
2. Category:Buildings and structures in the San Fernando Valley
3. Category:San Fernando Valley
4. Burbank City Hall DYK ... that the art deco Burbank City Hall, with murals by Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of marble in its main lobby?
5. Burbank Town Center [created 2008]
6. Chatsworth Community Church (built in 1903, a Historic Cultural Monument) [created 2008]
7. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) DYK ... that the Convento Building is the largest adobe building in California and the largest original building at any of the Spanish missions in California?
8. Encino Oak Tree DYK ... that Los Angeles police were sent to guard the remains of the 1000-year-old Encino Oak Tree, a victim of "slime flux", after it was felled by an El Niño storm in 1998?
9. Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center [created 2008]
10. Faith Bible Church, Northridge, California [created 2008]
11. Holy Family Catholic Church (Glendale, California)
12. Fallbrook Center [created 2008]
13. Incarnation Catholic Church DYK ...that police patrolled Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed with a tire iron by Armenian-Americans after a retaliatory shooting at a donut shop?
14. Lassen Street Olive Trees (Chatsworth, California) (planted in 1890) [created 2008]
15. Leonis Adobe DYK ... that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at Leonis Adobe, according to TV show Most Haunted?
16. Minnie Hill Palmer House DYK ... that the namesake of the Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?
17. Lopez Adobe DYK ... that Lopez Adobe and Rómulo Pico Adobe, built near the San Fernando Mission, are the oldest residences in San Fernando Valley?
18. Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park [created 2008]
19. North Hollywood Branch
20. Old Santa Susana Stage Road [added infobox 2008]
21. Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center DYK ... that the main house on the grounds of the city-owned Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center in Los Angeles incorporates swastikas in its architecture?
22. Rómulo Pico Adobe DYK ... that Lopez Adobe and Rómulo Pico Adobe, built near the San Fernando Mission, are the oldest residences in San Fernando Valley?
23. Reseda Boulevard DYK ...that 16 people died when the top two floors of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on Reseda Boulevard collapsed in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake?
24. Riverside Drive (Los Angeles, California)
25. St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church DYK ...that the pastor of Burbank's St. Robert Bellarmine Church was a World War I chaplain who modeled the campus on Monticello and Independence Hall?
26. Saint Saviour's Chapel (Harvard-Westlake School) (built in 1914, patterned after the Chapel at Rugby School in England) [created 2008]
27. Shadow Ranch (built from 1869-1872 using adobe and redwood lumber, on the original Workman Ranch in the western San Fernando Valley) [created 2008]
28. Sportsmen's Lodge DYK ... that Robert Kennedy stayed at the Sportsmen's Lodge (formerly the "Hollywood Trout Farms") in Studio City, California, the night before his assassination?
29. Valley Presbyterian Hospital [created 2008]
30. Van Nuys Branch
31. Van Nuys Boulevard DYK ...that Van Nuys Boulevard, running through the heart of LA's San Fernando Valley, was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
32. Victory Boulevard DYK ... that Victory Boulevard, running the 25-mile length of the San Fernando Valley, is mentioned in Randy Newman's I Love LA: "Victory Boulevard (We Love It!)"?

San Pedro & Wilmington

1. List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area DYK ... that the historic monuments in the Los Angeles Harbor area include a Civil War Powder Magazine, a World War I coastal artillery battery, and the bridge of a World War II heavy cruiser?
2. American Trona Corporation Building [created 2008]
3. Banning House DYK ... that the 1864 Banning House reportedly hosted "the first yachting party on the West Coast" and has been called "one of the best examples of Greek Revival architecture in the west"?
4. James H. Dodson Residence (Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #147) located in San Pedro) [created 2008]
5. Drum Barracks DYK ... that Drum Barracks were built in 1862 and 1863 at a cost of US$1 million to quell pro-Confederacy sentiments in Los Angeles?
6. Harbor View House (Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #252) located in San Pedro) [created 2008]
7. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church, San Pedro, California DYK ... that the bronze of Mary atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the Port of Los Angeles harbor?
8. Memory Chapel (Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #155) located in the Wilmington section of Los Angeles, California, near the Port of Los Angeles) [created 2008]
9. Municipal Warehouse No. 1 DYK ... that for many years, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 at the Port of Los Angeles stored the railcar that carried Winston Churchill's body to burial?
10. Old St. Peter's Episcopal Church (built in 1883 in the Carpenter Gothic Victorian architecture style, it is San Pedro's oldest church) [created 2008]
11. Powder Magazine (Camp Drum) DYK ... that the historic monuments in the Los Angeles Harbor area include a Civil War Powder Magazine, a World War I coastal artillery battery, and the bridge of a World War II heavy cruiser?
12. Saint John's Episcopal Church (Wilmington, California) (built in 1883, it is the oldest church building in the harbor area that is still used for regular worship services) [created 2008]
13. San Pedro Municipal Ferry Building [created 2008]
14. United States Post Office (San Pedro, California) [created 2008]
15. Wilmington Branch [created 2008]

South Los Angeles

1. List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles [created 2009]
2. 27th Street Historic District DYK ... that the 27th Street Historic District in Los Angeles includes a Gothic Revival church that since 1906 has housed white, Armenian, African-American and Hispanic congregations?
3. 28th Street YMCA [created 2011]
4. 52nd Place Historic District [created 2011]
5. Angelus Funeral Home [created 2011]
6. Ralph J. Bunche House DYK ... that the Ralph J. Bunche House in South Los Angeles was the boyhood home of Ralph Bunche, the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
7. Dunbar Hotel DYK ... that the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong?
8. Fire Station No. 30, Engine Company No. 30 [created 2011]
9. Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building (1928) [created 2008]
10. Lincoln Theater (Los Angeles, California) DYK ... that the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles was known as the "West Coast Apollo" and featured performances by jazz legends before being converted into a church?
11. Second Baptist Church (Los Angeles, California) DYK ... that Second Baptist Church, once the largest African American–owned meeting space in the western U.S., hosted speeches by W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X?
12. Watts Station DYK ... that Watts Station was the only structure to remain intact along "Charcoal Alley" during the Watts Riots?

West side and Santa Monica

1. List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the Westside [created 2009]
2. Charmont Apartments (Santa Monica) [created 2008]
3. Chateau Colline (Westwood) [created 2008]
4. Fox Bruin Theater (large movie palace located in the Westwood section of Los Angeles) [created 2008]
5. Hillcrest Country Club DYK ...that Groucho Marx joined Hillcrest Country Club even though it was willing to have him as a member?
6. Kappe Residence DYK ... that the Kappe Residence, described as "a virtual tree house poised over a steep hillside", was named one of the top ten houses in Los Angeles by an expert panel selected by the Los Angeles Times?
7. The Manor DYK ... that Aaron Spelling's 56,500-square-foot mansion, known as The Manor, is the largest house in Los Angeles County? (2009)
8. McCabe's Guitar Shop DYK ...that more than a dozen artists have recorded live albums in the back room of McCabe's Guitar Shop, including Tom Waits, Beck, and R.E.M.? (Santa Monica) [created 2008]
9. Palms-Southern Pacific Railroad Depot DYK ... that Palms Depot was known as the "Grasshopper Stop" because "grasshoppers were present in veritable clouds" when it opened?
10. Ralphs Grocery Store (Westwood) DYK ... that Ralphs Grocery Store, part of a plan to build the "model college town" in 1929, was photographed by Ansel Adams?
11. Santa Monica State Beach [created 2008]
12. Sovereign Hotel (Santa Monica) [created 2008]
13. Streetcar Depot, West Los Angeles [created 2008]
14. Henry Weaver House
15. Horatio West Court
16. St. Monica Catholic Church, Santa Monica DYK ... that Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's Church, and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
17. Venice of America House [created 2008]
18. Venice Canal Historic District
19. Wadsworth Chapel DYK ... that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof? [created 2008]
20. Henry Weaver House (Santa Monica) [created 2008]
21. Horatio West Court (Santa Monica designed by Irving Gill) [created 2008]
22. Warren Wilson Beach House [created 2008]

Whittier

1. Jonathan Bailey House (Whittier, California) [created 2008]
2. Hoover Hotel [created 2008]
3. National Bank of Whittier Building [created 2008]
4. Orin Jordan House [created 2008]
5. Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Whittier [created 2008]
6. Standard Oil Building (Whittier, California) [created 2008]

Other parts of Los Angeles County

1. National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California [expanded 2008]
2. Adamson House DYK ... that Adamson House, called the "Taj Mahal of Tile", uses local handmade Malibu tiles throughout and has an elaborately tiled dog bath? [Malibu]
3. Azusa Civic Center DYK ... that that a parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center, commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?
4. Bolton Hall (California) DYK ... that Bolton Hall, the community center for a Utopian community formed in 1913 in the foothills north of Los Angeles, was later used as a jail? (Tujunga) [created 2008]
5. SS Catalina DYK ... that SS Catalina, after reportedly carrying more passengers than any other ship anywhere, has been stuck half-submerged in Ensenada, Mexico for more than ten years?
6. Centinela Adobe DYK ... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles? [Inglewood]
7. La Puente Valley Woman's Club (La Puente) [created 2008]
8. Ygnacio Palomares Adobe/La Casa Alvarado/La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose/Rancho San Jose DYK ... that the Palomares Adobe, Casa Alvarado and Casa Primera, built between 1837 and 1855, provided a stagecoach stop, chapel, school and early homes for the 22,000-acre Rancho San Jose in Los Angeles County?
9. Phillips Mansion/Louis Phillips DYK ... that the Phillips Mansion, described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900?
10. Pico Canyon Oilfield DYK ... that Well No. 4 in the Pico Canyon Oilfield was the first commercially successful oil well in the Western United States and the longest producing oil well in the world at 114 years?
11. Pomona City Stables DYK ... that the Pomona City Stables, which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in California?
12. San Dimas Hotel DYK ... that the 33-room San Dimas Hotel built in 1887 never had a paying guest due to a land boom that never occurred?
13. Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum (City of Industry) [expanded a bit 2008]

Kern County

1. Bakersfield Register of Historic Places and Areas of Historic Interest [created 2019]

San Diego County

1. List of San Diego Historic Landmarks [created 2009]
2. List of San Diego Historical Landmarks in La Jolla [created 2009]
3. Balboa Theatre‎ [created 2008]
4. El Cortez Apartment Hotel‎ DYK ... that San Diego's El Cortez Hotel, site of the world's first outdoor glass elevator and moving sidewalk, became a school for evangelists in the 1970s? [created 2008]
5. Horton Grand Hotel [created 2008]
6. Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building [created 2008]

San Luis Obispo County

1. City of San Luis Obispo Historic Resources [created 2019]

Santa Barbara County

1. City of Santa Barbara Historic Landmarks [created 2019]
2. Hope Ranch, California [expanded 2020]

Ventura County

Main page: User:Cbl62/Ventura County

Northern California

1. List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks [created 2009]
2. Omni San Francisco Hotel [expanded 2020]
3. Sonoma Mission Inn [expanded 2020]

Sites outside California

1. Black Hawk County Soldiers Memorial Hall
2. Boar's Head Resort (VA) [expanded 2020]
3. Brinley Avenue Historic District (Yuma, Arizona)
4. Colony Hotel & Cabaña Club (FL) [expanded 2020]
5. Cork Factory Hotel (PA) [expanded 2020]
6. De Mores Packing Plant Ruins DYK ... that a pretender to the French throne built the De Mores Packing Plant in the Dakota Territory in 1883?
7. Dunhill Hotel (NC) [created 2020]
8. Grace Hospital (Richmond, Virginia) [created 2011]
9. Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza (NM) [expanded 2020]
10. Hotel Saranac (NY) [created 2020]
11. Dr. Franklin E. Kameny House DYK ... that the Frank Kameny House in Washington, D.C., was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the gay rights activism of its namesake?
12. La Posada de Santa Fe (NM) [expanded 2020]
13. Louden Machinery Company DYK ... that Louden Machinery Co. designed more than 25,000 barns as well as monorail devices used in manufacturing the first atomic bomb and at a B-29 bomber plant?
14. Manistee Iron Works (historic site in Manistee, Michigan) [created 2012]
15. Morris Inn at Notre Dame (IN) [expanded 2020)
16. National Register of Historic Places listings in Yuma County, Arizona
17. Olson House (Cushing, Maine) DYK ... that Olson House, made famous by its depiction in Christina's World, was designated a National Historic Landmark in June 2011?
18. Omni Berkshire Place (NY) [expanded 2020]
19. Opa-Locka Thematic Resource Area DYK ... that the Opa-Locka Thematic Resource Area includes 20 buildings developed by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss using an "Arabian Nights" theme?
20. Punta Gorda Fish Co. DYK ... that ten Florida fish cabins and icehouses built by the Punta Gorda Fish Co. have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
21. The Rock Hotel DYK ... that John Lennon married Yoko Ono at The Rock Hotel?
22. Skytop Lodge (PA) [expanded 2020]
23. Virginia schools: Nathaniel Bacon School, Orange High School (Orange, Virginia), Matthew Whaley School, Highland Park Public School, John B. Cary School, Clarendon School, Peabody Building of the Peabody-Williams School, Shea Terrace Elementary School, Springfield School, Richmond [created 2011]

Churches

1. Template:Roman Catholic churches in California (created 2020)
2. Template:Roman Catholic churches in Michigan (created 2020)
3. Template:Roman Catholic churches in New Jersey (created 2020)
4. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore (created 2020)
5. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston (created 2020)
6. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn (created 2020)
7. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo (created 2020)
8. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden (created 2020)
9. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago (created 2020)
10. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago – Vicariate I (created 2020)
11. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati (created 2020)
12. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland (created 2020)
13. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines (created 2020)
14. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit (created 2020)
15. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno
16. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord (created 2020)
17. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids (created 2020)
18. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis (created 2020)
19. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo (created 2020)
20. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing (created 2020)
21. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas (created 2020)
22. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of London, Ontario (created 2020)
23. Archdiocese of Los Angeles: Our Lady of the Angels Pastoral Region (expanded 2008-2009)
24. Archdiocese of Los Angeles: San Fernando Pastoral Region (expanded 2008-2009)
25. Archdiocese of Los Angeles: San Gabriel Pastoral Region (expanded 2008-2009)
26. Archdiocese of Los Angeles: San Pedro Pastoral Region (expanded 2008-2009)
27. Archdiocese of Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Pastoral Region (expanded 2008, 2020)
28. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette (created 2020)
29. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen [created 2020]
30. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee (created 2020)
31. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey (created 2020)
32. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark (created 2020)
33. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland (created 2020)
34. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange (created 2020)
35. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson (created 2020)
36. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia (created 2020)
37. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh (created 2020)
38. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence (created 2020)
39. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento (created 2020)
40. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saginaw (created 2020)
41. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis (created 2020)
42. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino (created 2020)
43. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego (created 2020)
44. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco (created 2020)
45. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California (created 2020)
46. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe (created 2020)
47. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California (created 2020)
48. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton (expanded 2020)
49. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo [created 2020]
50. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton (created 2020)
51. List of Roman Catholic churches in Leicester (expanded 2020)
52. Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham (expanded 2020)
53. Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church DYK ... that the 1898 Carpenter Gothic Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church in California underwent extensive renovations after a portion of the ceiling fell on a parishioner during a 1982 service?
54. Blessed Junipero Serra Catholic Church, Camarillo DYK ...that Cardinal Roger Mahony petitioned Rome to name Blessed Junipero Serra Church after Junipero Serra despite controversy over his treatment of California Indians?
55. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Hollywood DYK ... that Hollywood's Blessed Sacrament Church was the site of Bing Crosby's wedding and funerals for John Ford and Mack Sennett?
56. Faith Bible Church, Northridge, California
57. First Congregational Church (Long Beach, California) DYK ... that a pastor of the First Congregational Church in Long Beach, California, vowed to defy an order to block homeless people from sleeping on the church steps?
58. Holy Family Catholic Church (Glendale, California)
59. Incarnation Catholic Church DYK ...that police patrolled Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed with a tire iron by Armenian-Americans after a retaliatory shooting at a donut shop?
60. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church, San Pedro, California DYK ... that the bronze of Mary atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the Port of Los Angeles harbor?
61. McCarty Memorial Christian Church DYK ... that McCarty Memorial Christian Church in Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
62. Our Lady of Grace (Encino) [created 2008]
63. Our Lady of the Valley [created 2008]
64. Precious Blood Church DYK ... that the Los Angeles Times wrote that a motorist passing the playground at Precious Blood Church might think "he'd been transported to a Catholic school in circa-1950s Chicago or Pittsburgh"?
65. Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church [created 2008]
66. St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Pasadena DYK ... that when St. Andrew's Church in Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a Byzantine queen"?
67. St. Augustine Catholic Church, Culver City ... that a Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Augustine's Church and carted a statue of Juniperro Serra to a nearby mosque in October 2001?
68. St. Basil Catholic Church DYK ... that the 1969 dedication of St. Basil Church in Los Angeles prompted a "club-swinging mob" of Chicanos to break into the church during Christmas Midnight Mass?
69. St. Brendan Catholic Church, Los Angeles DYK ... that St. Brendan's Church has been a location for two apocalypse movies: the Martian attack in 1953's War of the Worlds and the wedding at the end of Armageddon?
70. St. Catherine of Siena Church and School [created 2008]
71. St. Cecilia Church DYK ... that LA's St. Cecilia Church, built in 1927, adapted to its multiethnic community by installing shrines to a beatified Nigerian priest, a Oaxacan Virgin, and a Guatemalan "Black Christ"?
72. St. Charles Borromeo Church (North Hollywood) DYK ... that Paul Salamunovich, choir director since 1949 at St. Charles Borromeo Church in North Hollywood, has also conducted choirs for dozens of feature films, including The Devil's Advocate?
73. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Encino DYK ... that St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church was the site of the baptism of Clark Gable's son, the wedding of Annette Funicello, and the funeral of Mercury Seven astronaut "Gordo" Cooper?
74. St. Elisabeth of Hungary Church and School [created 2008, expanded 2020]
75. St. Finbar Catholic Church DYK ...that St. Finbar Church in Burbank, faced with a dwindling flock and changing demographics, was one of the first U.S. parishes to offer Spanish language Mass?
76. St. John's Cathedral, Los Angeles
77. St. Martin of Tours Church DYK ... that St. Martin of Tours Church was the site of Dan Akroyd's eulogy to John Candy and a media frenzy when O.J. Simpson appeared at his slain wife's funeral?
78. St. Mel (Woodland Hills, California) (created 2008, expanded 2020)
79. St. Monica Catholic Church, Santa Monica DYK ... that Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's Church, and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
80. St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church DYK ...that the pastor of Burbank's St. Robert Bellarmine Church was a World War I chaplain who modeled the campus on Monticello and Independence Hall?
81. St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church DYK ... that a 1999 fire in St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church caused an estimated $1.2 million in damage?
82. St. Timothy Catholic Church DYK ... that St. Timothy Catholic Church in Los Angeles has an antique gold leaf altarpiece believed to have been made in Spain in the 1600s?
83. St. Vincent de Paul Church (Los Angeles, California) (designed by architect Albert C. Martin, Sr., dedicated in 1925) [created 2008]
84. Second Baptist Church (Los Angeles, California) DYK ... that Second Baptist Church, once the largest African American–owned meeting space in the western U.S., hosted speeches by W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X?
85. Wadsworth Chapel DYK ... that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof?
86. Wilshire Boulevard Temple DYK ... that Wilshire Boulevard Temple, with its landmark Byzantine dome, is the oldest Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles?