A Photography Project
Plummer House was built in 1874 in what would become West Hollywood by Eugene Raphael Plummer on land his family had homesteaded next to Rancho La Brea. The “Oldest House in Hollywood” was saved when it was moved to Calabasas in 1983.
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Master carpenter Dennis Platt spent years scavenging pieces from demolished Victorian buildings. Working with local architect T.W. Layman in 1981, the construction of The Victorian incorporated and replicated pieces from Platt’s stash.
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The Skinny House in the Rose Park neighborhood of Long Beach is a narrow, three-story house, built in 1932, that has been cited by both the Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley’s Believe It or Not as the nation’s skinniest house.
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The Stuft Shirt restaurant franchise commissioned Thornton Ladd, who had recently partnered with John Kelsey, in 1960 to design a new Stuft Shirt restaurant located on the Lido Channel of Newport Harbor in the Mariner’s Mile area.
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Designed by Kenneth A. MacDonald, Jr. and sculptor Federico Augustino Giorgi, the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation in Burbank, was originally built as the entrance to Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in 1924.
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Yard class wooden-hulled minesweeper YMS-228 was constructed in 1943 by the Ballard Marine Railway Company in Seattle, WA. She was renamed Wild Goose II in the late 1950s from which John Wayne dropped the II when he bought her in 1962.
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The Fluor company relocated several times before building new headquarters in Irvine composed of 2 main buildings: high-rise Corporate Offices and lower-rise offices for Fluor Engineers and Constructors, Southern California Division.
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