Holmby Hall

Holmby Hall, built in 1929, was the first shop building in Westwood Village. The building is comprised of 5 two- and three-story segments anchored at the southeast corner by a 110-foot tall clock tower. Complying with the Janns Corporation general theme of Mediterranean Revival, Gordon Kaufmann worked with John and Donald Parkinson to design the building as a Spanish Colonial Revival streetscape. The white, octagonal clock tower, capped by a green pinnacle, however, has been interpreted as a “Gothically capped Classical clock tower.” For a time, the building housed the first dormitory for female students at nearby UCLA. Redeveloped at the turn of the 21st Century, it is now known locally simply as the “Clock Tower.” Holmby Hall is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

Westwood Village, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Photographer: John Bare