A Photography Project
Hotel del Coronado owner John Spreckels was asked by the Coronado Library Trustees to build a local, permanent library building. He agreed and had architect Harrison Albright design and build a classical revival library building in 1909.
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The Title Guarantee & Trust Building, a highrise on Pershing Square in Los Angeles, was built in 1930. It was designed by architects John and Donald Parkinson and is consdidered one of the most striking Art Deco structures in the city.
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Hotelier John McEntee Bowman partnered with the architectural team of Schultze & Weaver and Italian muralist Giovanni ‘John’ Smeraldi to create the Los Angeles Biltmore, “one of the first great hotels in the western United States.”
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CBS Television City at Beverly and Fairfax in Los Angeles opened on November 16, 1952. The stark modern architecture, designed by Pereira & Luckman, consists of black and white planes that indicate areas where it was designed to be expanded.
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Per state and national resources, “Established in 1862, Drum Barracks [in Wilmington] became the United States military headquarters for Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. It was a garrison, [and] base for supplies.”
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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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