A Photography Project
The oldest standing house of worship in the original city of Huntington Beach is downtown at Sixth and Orange. Originally the Huntington Beach Baptist Church, it was dedicated in 1906, three years before the incorporation of the city.
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The National Register of Historic Places identifies the Santa Monica Amusement Pier Carousel Building as Loof’s Hippodrome, “a rare intact example of an early shelter structure built to house a carousel in an amusement park.”
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Lafayette Square, established in 1913, was the last and greatest of banker George L. Crenshaw’s ten residential developments in Los Angeles.
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Terminal Annex, or more properly the United States Post Office – Los Angeles Terminal Annex, across Cesar E Chavez Ave. from Union Station in Los Angeles was the central mail processing facility for Los Angeles from 1940 to 1989.
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The Hill-Carrillo Adobe in Santa Barbara was built in 1826 by Daniel Hill for his bride Rafaela Luisa Ortega y Olivera, granddaughter of José Francisco Ortega, founder and first Comandante of the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara.
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The Warner Grand Theatre opened in San Pedro in 1931. It was one of three Art Deco/Moderne “neighborhood picture palaces” built by Warner Brothers Studio in the Los Angeles area. The City of Los Angeles acquired the theater in 1996.
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A small building made of adobe bricks that Lawrence & Pauline Lushbaugh built in the late 1930s in what is now Corona del Mar became the office of the Sherman Foundation, founded by Arnold Haskell to honor mentor Moses Sherman, in 1956.
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