A Photography Project
Brothers Edwin and Harold Janss developed Westwood Village immediately south of the UCLA campus. In 1929, they commissioned the architectural firm of Allison & Allison to design the headquarters of the Janss Investment Company.
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Northridge was the town of Zelzah and the Carpenter Gothic Victorian style Faith Bible Church was the Norsk Evangelisk Luther’s Kirke, or the Norwegian Lutheran Church, when it was the first church built in the town in 1917.
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Lewis House is a residence built in 1890 for Samuel J. and Mary Agnes Lewis in what was once the Crown Hill area of Los Angeles. It was designed by Joseph Cather Newsom in what is considered “quintessential California Queen Anne style.”
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Water towers aren’t rare. Nor do they always “tower” over the area. But they are all landmarks, to a greater or lesser extent, as they all “enable someone to establish their location.”
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Completed in 1967, the unique Googie-style Denny’s restaurant on Huntington Drive in Arcadia was acquired from Van de Kamp’s Holland Dutch Bakery in 1989. It was 1 of 13 designed by Pasadena architects Harold Bissner and Harold Zook.
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With a rich history dating back to the mid-1800s, street clocks, public clocks and sidewalk clocks may have placed for more than just telling the time of day.
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The former Home Savings and Loan Bank (now Chase Bank) at Bolsa and Goldenwest in Westminster was the last Home Savings building in Orange County to be designed by Millard Sheets with one of “late” murals designed by Susan Hertel.
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