A Photography Project
The remnants of a New Deal-era sewage treatment plant in Laguna Beach, a ground level digester tower and a small “lighthouse” up on the hillside that covered the digester air vent, will be renovated as part of a city improvement project.
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Heisler Park in Laguna Beach was named after Howard G. Heisler, a member of the Laguna Company that bought the property from the Irvine Company in 1905. The park stretches along the bluffs on Cliff Drive from Aster Street to Diver’s Cove.
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The Sawdust Art Festival has become as much a cultural and artistic landmark as a well known sight along Laguna Canyon Rd. in Laguna Beach. Starting on a vacant downtown lot in 1965, the festival moved to its present 3-acre site in 1968.
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The Laguna Beach Museum of Art, built in 1928, was temporarily closed in April 1985 for reconstruction, reopening in September 1986 after an extensive expansion. The museum doubled in size and changed its name to Laguna Art Museum.
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Henry Goff built the Alpha Hotel on the site of Hotel Laguna in Laguna Beach in 1888. It was purchased, expanded and renamed Hotel Laguna in 1897 by Joseph Yoch. Today’s California Mission-style three-story building opened in 1930.
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St. Francis by-the-Sea American Catholic Church in Laguna Beach was constructed in 1933-34 from the rubble of the Long Beach earthquake by the Rev. Percy Wise Clarkson, the founder and first bishop of the church, and his followers.
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LA architect William Alexander designed & built the Hangover House in Laguna Beach for his friend, travel writer & adventurer Richard Halliburton, in 1937. The Moderne house was built on a hilltop w/commanding views of the Pacific Ocean.
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