University of California, Los Angeles
As the Southern Branch of the University of California started to outgrow its campus on Vermont Avenue, the UC Regents appointed a committee to consider new campus proposals that ranged from Ventura County to San Diego. The “Beverly Site,” an undeveloped 383-acre area just west of Beverly Hills, edged out the panoramic hills of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. George W. Kelham of San Francisco developed the master plan and worked with David Allison of the Los Angeles firm Allison & Allison to design the Romanesque style of the new Westwood campus. Ground was broken in September 1927. Construction officially began May 7, 1928, on four buildings: the University Library (now Powell Library), Josiah Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building (now Renee & David Kaplan Hall) and the Chemistry Building (now Haines Hall), arrayed around a quadrangular courtyard.
Westwood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Photographer: John Bare