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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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Built in 1930 in Hollywood, the Pantages Theatre, according to LA Conservancy, can hold claim to two “lasts”: the last movie palace built in Hollywood and the last venue built by vaudeville circuit owner, Alexander Pantages.
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Built in 1959, Conrad’s Family Restaurant in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, renamed Astro Family Restaurant in 1974, was designed by the renowned architectural firm of Armet & Davis. In 1974, Conrad’s was taken over by Peter Metsos and renamed Astro Family Restaurant.
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The two-tower office building at Hollywood and Vine started out as the Bank of Hollywood Building when the first tower opened. On completion of the second adjoining tower in late 1930, the building was rechristened the Equitable Building.
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Just up the hill from the widely-known Carroll Avenue in the Angeleno Heights area of Los Angeles, a sign on Kellam Avenue advises visitors of the “Highest Concentration of Victorian Residences” with references to five LAHCMs.
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The Leonis Adobe in Calabasas, one of the oldest surviving residences in the San Fernando Valley, was built some time in the 1840s. Acquired in the mid-1800s by Miguel Leonis, it was where he and his wife, Espiritu, moved in the 1870s.
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Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles, originally built in the 1860s as a reservoir for drinking water, today functions primarily as a detention basin in the city’s storm drain system, while providing recreational benefits and wildlife habitat.
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