A Photography Project
The California Bank Building, a 7-story Art Deco “wedding-cake,” opened on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills on November 7, 1929. Per the City of Beverly Hills, it was renamed Sterling Plaza when Donald Sterling purchased it in the 1990s.
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The five buildings of Orange Union High School that are now part of the Chapman University campus were built between 1905 and 1922. In 1954, OUHS moved and the site became the new and permanent home of Chapman College.
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Architect Frederick I. Roehrig drew on Moorish, Spanish, Victorian, and other stylistic elements to produce what was considered Pasadena’s most stunningly original building, what came be be called the Castle Green built in 1897-98.
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Construction of Graves House in Oceanside was completed in 1888 as a summer home for Dr. Henry Graves and his wife Sarah. In 1985, Paramount Pictures rented the property for two weeks for use as Charlie’s house in the movie “Top Gun.”
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The James Fielding Cosby House in Pasadena, built in 1893 in the central downtown area of Los Angeles, is described as “an exuberant, high style example of the late nineteenth century Queen Anne style of architecture.”
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The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles, built for Lewis L. Bradbury, opened on New Year’s Day 1894. The building has operated as an office building for most of its history and is the oldest standing commercial building in central L.A.
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Originally built in 1919 and rebuilt in 1939, City of Los Angeles Fire Department Engine Co. 39 on Sylvan Street in Van Nuys was LAFD’s oldest station until firefighters moved to a new, state-of-the-art facility in 2019.
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