A Photography Project
Granville Spurgeon joined his brother, city founder William H. Spurgeon, in Santa Ana in 1870. In 1879, Granville had a modest 1,426 sq ft, Victorian style house built for his bride, Frederica, and lived there until his death in August 1901.
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Irvine Spectrum Center opened in phases starting with “The Entertainment Center” in 1995. Phase II, which opened in 1998, featured architecture inspired by the Alhambra in Spain. Phase III, with the Giant Wheel, opened in 2002, Phase IV in 2018.
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On July 21, 1925, the Tustin chapters of the Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters officially took possession of their new two-story, Italian Renaissance Revival-style lodge hall at the corner of Main and D Streets (now El Camino Real).
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The eleventh book from SoCal Landmarks is now available! It features the images from our 31 Days of Landmarks in Film and on TV series of posts during the month of March 2024 – historic, architectural and natural landmarks that have appeared in feature films and television series for almost as long as they have been shooting them in Southern California.
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George Sturges commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build a Usonian style house on a steeply sloping site in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. John Lautner oversaw construction of the 1200 sq ft residence with 21-foot-long cantilevered deck.
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The 1939 May Company Building on Wilshire Blvd, “the grandest example of Streamline Moderne remaining in Los Angeles,” is now home of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. This first large-scale museum of its kind in the U.S. opened in 2021.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. The museum opened its Wilshire Blvd. location to the public in 1965. In 2026, LACMA opened the David Geffen Galleries for the permanent collection.
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