In 1925 a bond issue was approved providing for a branch library on Sylvan Street in Van Nuys. The building was designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style by Allison and Allison and served the public from March 1927 to April 1964.
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The first drugstore in Westminster was built in 1874, fours years after Reverand Lemuel P. Webber founded a colony there. It was built by physician Dr. James McCoy and later owned by teacher and principal Marie Larter Hare.
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The Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area in Van Nuys is the site of a remarkable nexus of traditional Chisen-Kaiyushiki Japanese garden design, Postmodern architectural design, forward thinking water reclamation processing and Star Trek.
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The Major Myles Moylan House in San Diego, designed by Falkenham & Gill, is an early local example of Colonial Revival residential architecture. Moylan, a US Army officer with an extensive military career, retired to San Diego in 1893.
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The former sanctuary of the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society in North Hills, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument known as “The Onion,” is one of the most distinctive ecclesiastical buildings in all of Southern California.
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The Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach service operated from 1858 to 1861 when disrupted by the Civil War. The Oak Grove Stage Station, near Warner Springs, is one of the few, if not the only station still standing on the entire route.
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You will travel over the Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge, the highest arch bridge in California, if you take CA 154 between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez. It was the longest bridge of its kind in the world when it opened in 1964.
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