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Great Pacific Iron Works, Ventura, Ventura County

Great Pacific Iron Works

March 23, 2022 City landmark, City of Ventura Landmark

The Hobson Brothers Meat Packing Company built this industrial Mission Revival style building in 1923. Chouinard Equipment opened their first retail store, the Great Pacific Iron Works, in this building in the early 1970s.

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First Baptist Church of Ventura, Ventura, Ventura County

First Baptist Church of Ventura

October 13, 2021 California Register of Historical Resources, City landmark, City of Ventura Landmark, National Register of Historic Places

In 1928, the Board of Deacons of the First Baptist Church in Ventura commissioned Hollywood-based architect Robert Stacy-Judd to design what was the first ecclesiastic building embodying Mayan architectural forms & art motifs in the US.

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