Hollyhock House’s reopening for tours of the interior were, due to COVID, slow to resume, accompanied with a no-photography restriction. The restriction was removed recently and several SoCal Landmarks photographers took advantage.
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Hidden behind towering white bird of paradise plants and an ancient oak, the Rancho Los Feliz Adobe in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, built in the 1830s by the heirs of José Vicente Feliz, now serves as the Park Ranger’s Headquarters.
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The Ennis House, made of over 27,000 interlocking concrete blocks, is perched on a 3-acre lot in the foothills of the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Charles & Mabel Ennis in 1923, built in 1924.
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The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is housed in the former Municipal Ferry Terminal building at Berth 84 in San Pedro. Finished in 1941 as a WPA project, it was one of the pair of terminals for auto ferry service to/from Terminal Island.
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Peter K. Schaborum designed the Art Deco style Valley Municipal Building in Van Nuys as a miniature of Los Angeles City Hall in late 1931. Formal dedication ceremonies on 2/22/33, Washington’s Birthday, were attended by thousands.
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The “Old Government Reservation” next to San Pedro Bay became property of the U.S. War Department in 1888. In 1914 the property was named Fort MacArthur in honor of Civil War Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur.
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In 1925 a bond issue was approved providing for a branch library on Sylvan Street in Van Nuys. The building was designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style by Allison and Allison and served the public from March 1927 to April 1964.
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