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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City of Santa Monica Landmark
Sears Roebuck Santa Monica
Sears, Roebuck and Co. opened a large, new store in Santa Monica in 1947. It was designed in the Late Moderne style by architect Rowland Crawford, who was known at the time for his design of the Times-Mirror building in L.A.
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Santa Monica Pier
The long, narrow Santa Monica Municipal Pier was built in 1909. It became a popular place to walk and fish. A shorter, wider “pleasure pier” featuring a carousel in the Looff Hippodrome was built on its southern side in 1916.
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Hotel Shangri-La
Designed by William Foster and developed under the direction of Frank Gillespie, the Shangri-La Apartment Hotel, a new concrete apartment hotel for 62 families advertised as “America’s New Design for Living” opened on May 1, 1940.
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