Descanso Gardens is a 150-acre botanical garden in La Cañada-Flintridge on land purchased in 1937 by Elias Manchester Boddy. It is operated by the Descanso Gardens Guild in a public-private partnership with Los Angeles County.
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The former Home Savings & Loan Bank (now Chase) at Beach & La Palma in Buena Park is generally a massive Modernist block built in 1978. Like some 150 Home Savings banks, it was designed and built by Millard Sheets featuring a huge mosaic.
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The Museum of Making Music in the headquarters building of the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) recently reopened after a two-month-long renovation. Founded in 1998, the museum opened to the public in March, 2000.
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The Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles has two exhibit areas flanked by 160-foot pavilions (West Tower & South Tower). The pavilions and exhibition halls are joined by a link of meeting halls hovering above Pico Blvd.
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The Spanish Colonial Revival style building that serves as the Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeals in Pasadena was built in 1930-31 as the main building of the Vista del Arroyo Hotel during the great age of Pasadena resort hotels.
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The Portuguese Chapel in the Point Loma area of San Diego was completed and inaugurated in 1922. The design of the small (12′ x 20′), single-story building was inspired by similar chapels from the Isles of Terceira and Pico in the Azores.
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The Pershing Square Building is an unsung landmark in downtown Los Angeles. The 16-story building was completed in 1924, built by the prolific architectural team of Claud Beelman & Aleck Curlett in the Italian Renaissance Revival style.
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