Rapp Saloon
This one-story structure was built for William Rapp as a beer hall in 1875, the same year the city of Santa Monica was founded. Rapp Saloon, as it came to be known, was the first brick structure in the city.
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Coachella Valley Savings #2
The second branch built by the Coachella Valley Savings & Loan Association in Palm Springs was completed in 1961. It was designed in the mid-century modern style by well known architect E. Stewart Williams, his second for the business.
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Lovell Beach House
Completed in 1926, the Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach is internationally acclaimed as one of the greatest works of pioneering architect Rudolf Schindler. The use of unsurfaced concrete predates and predicts the Brutalist style.
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Art Theatre of Long Beach
The Art Theatre originally opened as The Carter Theatre in 1925 as a single screen silent movie house. After the earthquake in 1933, the theatre was remodeled in an Art Deco streamline moderne style and renamed The Lee Theatre.
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Green Dog & Cat Hospital
The Green Dog & Cat Hospital is one of the oldest continuously operating purpose‐built pet hospitals in Los Angeles. Jules Koppel designed Green’s building in an exuberant Art Deco style for high visibility along the busy Slauson Avenue.
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Culver Hotel
The headlines of the Sept 4, 1924, Culver City Daily News read “City packed with visitors for opening of Culver Skyscraper.” In an area of 1- and 2-story buildings, the 6-story Hotel Hunt (now Culver Hotel) was visible for miles around.
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Orange Coast College
Developed between 1943 and 1956, the core of the Orange Coast College campus in Costa Mesa represents the collaboration of Modernist architects Robert Alexander and Richard Neutra with landscape architect Garrett Eckbo.
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