SoCal Landmarks

SoCal Landmarks

A Photography Project

Home Savings and Loan, Buena Park, Orange County

Home Savings and Loan

The former Home Savings and Loan Bank (now Chase Bank) at Beach and La Palma in Buena Park is generally a massive Modernist block with substantial roof overhangs. It was built in 1978 facing the corner on a diagonal. Like some 150 Home Savings bank buildings, it was designed and built by Millard Sheets featuring a huge mosaic rendered by the Sheets Studio team of Denis O’Connor and Susan Hertel. And like many of the mosaics, its subject is topical to the location – in this case an obvious nod to Knott’s Berry Farm which the building faces. This was the second Sheets-designed Home Savings bank in Buena Park. The first, older and smaller building is on the opposite corner across La Palma and is now a restaurant. Click here to view a large image of the mural

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Buena Park, Orange County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt