The Trojan, popularly known as Tommy Trojan, was sculpted by Roger Noble Burnham. The statue was unveiled during USC’s 50th Jubilee in 1930. Burnham’s primary models were All-American USC football players Erny Pinckert & Russ Saunders.
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The Pacific Electric Sub-Station No. 14 in Santa Ana was one of four stations in Orange County. Built in 1907 and in service until 1950, is the oldest standing structural feature of the Pacific Electric Railway system in Orange County.
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Richard and Mary Hunt purchased a large parcel of land in 1876 to establish the Salto Ranch in what is now the Lynn Ranch area of Thousand Oaks. They planted numerous eucalyptus trees and a grove of olive trees on the ranch.
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William S. Jack established the Bill Jack Scientific Instruments Company in Solana Beach in 1949. He built the row of Quonset huts on South Cedros Avenue that have been transformed, over time, into the Cedros Design District.
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This singular building, originally the Christiansen and Grow Filling Station, at the corner of Main and Palmyra in Orange, was built circa 1928 along State Highway 101 which connected Los Angeles with San Diego. It is the oldest remaining gas station in Orange and one of only four pre-1930s stations in Orange County.
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Frank Lloyd Wright completed his last Los Angeles building, the Anderton Court Shops, in 1952. It is a small three-story group of six shops on fashionable Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
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The mid-century modern Mesa Verde Branch Library, the city’s 1st public library, is considered one of Costa Mesa’s architectural unsung gems, from its distinctive folded-plate roof to its elegant low-slung base and geometric colonnades.
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