In 1927, construction began on Firestone Tire’s 1st manufacturing facility outside of Akron, OH. The Firestone Tire and Rubber Plant, South Gate Facility, was designed by Curlett & Beelman in the Italianate Mediterranean Revival style.
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In 1900, Dr. Cephas and Thomas Bard purchased property at the corner of Fir and Poli streets in Ventura to build a hospital in memory of their mother, Elizabeth Bard. Dr. Bard died at the new hospital in April 1902 at age 56.
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The Octagon Barn was built in 1906 as a dairy barn for William Mighell, a San Francisco ship captain. Dairy operations continued into the 1950s. The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County stepped in to save it in 1997.
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The US Army housed personnel working with & operating B-24 bombers during WWII in Quonset huts on the Santa Ana Army Air Base now in Costa Mesa. Property mgr Bruce Bear commissioned Nancy Hadley to paint an homage to the B-24 & airbase.
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LA architect William Alexander designed & built the Hangover House in Laguna Beach for his friend, travel writer & adventurer Richard Halliburton, in 1937. The Moderne house was built on a hilltop w/commanding views of the Pacific Ocean.
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La Jolla Cove is a small, picturesque cove with a white sand beach surrounded by sea cliffs in the La Jolla community of San Diego. It is within the San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park, a refuge area protecting marine life.
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Arlington Branch Library and Fire Hall in the Arlington suburb of Riverside, designed by the locally prominent architect, Seeley L. Pillar, in the Classical Revival style, has served its community continuously since opening in June 1909.
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