Heisler Park in Laguna Beach was named after Howard G. Heisler, a member of the Laguna Company that bought the property from the Irvine Company in 1905. The park stretches along the bluffs on Cliff Drive from Aster Street to Diver’s Cove.
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The former Home Savings & Loan Bank (now Chase) at Beach & La Palma in Buena Park is generally a massive Modernist block built in 1978. Like some 150 Home Savings banks, it was designed and built by Millard Sheets featuring a huge mosaic.
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The Museum of Making Music in the headquarters building of the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) recently reopened after a two-month-long renovation. Founded in 1998, the museum opened to the public in March, 2000.
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The Pershing Square Building is an unsung landmark in downtown Los Angeles. The 16-story building was completed in 1924, built by the prolific architectural team of Claud Beelman & Aleck Curlett in the Italian Renaissance Revival style.
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Millard Sheets’ 40-by-16-foot “Pleasures Along the Beach” mosaic mural has been installed at the Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange as the artist envisioned. Sheets created the mural for the Santa Monica Home Savings in 1969. It was restored by Brian Worley who worked on the mosaic as an intern in 1969. The finished mosaic was unveiled on January 30, 2024.
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The Chaplain’s Residence in the Hillcrest area of San Diego, built in 1896 and first occupied in 1897, is the last remaining structure of the St. Joseph’s Sanitarium, a hospital founded in 1890 by the Sisters of Mercy.
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The James Fielding Cosby House in Pasadena, built in 1893 in the central downtown area of Los Angeles, is described as “an exuberant, high style example of the late nineteenth century Queen Anne style of architecture.”
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