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The Anaheim Colony Historic District covers about 1,200 acres bound by North, South, East and West Streets. This was the land purchased for the Los Angeles Vineyard Society to cultivate grapes – the original German colony founded in 1857.
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Descanso Gardens is a 150-acre botanical garden in La Cañada-Flintridge on land purchased in 1937 by Elias Manchester Boddy. It is operated by the Descanso Gardens Guild in a public-private partnership with Los Angeles County.
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The Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles has two exhibit areas flanked by 160-foot pavilions (West Tower & South Tower). The pavilions and exhibition halls are joined by a link of meeting halls hovering above Pico Blvd.
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The Spanish Colonial Revival style building that serves as the Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeals in Pasadena was built in 1930-31 as the main building of the Vista del Arroyo Hotel during the great age of Pasadena resort hotels.
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The Portuguese Chapel in the Point Loma area of San Diego was completed and inaugurated in 1922. The design of the small (12′ x 20′), single-story building was inspired by similar chapels from the Isles of Terceira and Pico in the Azores.
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John D. Spreckels bought five acres of land overlooking Glorietta Bay across from the Hotel del Coronado for the mansion where Spreckels and his family lived when they moved to San Diego. It was completed in 1908 at a cost of $35,000.
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Jamestown Village, a shopping center in Old Town Tustin, was built by Claude T. Gilbreath in two stages starting in 1960, ending in 1962. A feature of the shopping center is the Little Tree Church that was built around an old oak tree.
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