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Hotelier John McEntee Bowman partnered with the architectural team of Schultze & Weaver and Italian muralist Giovanni ‘John’ Smeraldi to create the Los Angeles Biltmore, “one of the first great hotels in the western United States.”
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The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles, built for Lewis L. Bradbury, opened on New Year’s Day 1894. The building has operated as an office building for most of its history and is the oldest standing commercial building in central L.A.
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The Greek Revival style Banning House in Wilmington was was built in 1863-64 by Phineas Banning, founder of the city of Wilmington and “Father of the Port of Los Angeles.” The house and surrounding land were acquired by the City in 1927.
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City of Los Angeles Police Station No. 19 was built in Highland Park in 1925-26. After closing in 1983, it was acquired by the Los Angeles Police Historical Society in 1994, renovated and opened as the Los Angeles Police Museum in 2001.
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Stanley Barbee, president of the Coca-Cola Co. of Southern California, hired architect Robert Derrah, who had recently completed the Crossroads of the World, to remodel the LA bottling plant buildings and create a new unifying facade.
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Charles Lummis built his house, El Alisal, between 1897 & 1910 on a 3-acre lot at the south end of the Arroyo Seco in northeast Los Angeles. The Rustic American Craftsman stone house was built by hand by Lummls and a few Indian laborers.
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The LAHCM application for the Sherwood House in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles states that it “embodies ‘the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen’ as a notable example of the Tudor Revival style.”
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