A Photography Project
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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Harvard Heights has been called a “preservationist’s dream come true.” The neighborhood, on the heights southwest of downtown Los Angeles, is predominantly characterized by two-story Craftsman-style residences built from 1902 to 1908.
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Sid Grauman opened the first grand cinema palace in Los Angeles, the Million Dollar Theatre, at the corner of 3rd and Broadway in 1918. The prominent and elaborate Churrigueresque style decoration was expertly sculpted by Joseph Mora.
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Sited on a hillside in the Hollywood Hills just west of Runyon Canyon, the Mission Revival Wattles Mansion, built in 1907 for Omaha banker Gurdon Wattles, with adjoining park and garden comprise the Wattles Estate, now a LA Park.
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The Minnie Palmer Residence in Chatsworth, also known as The Homestead Acre, is the only remaining homestead cottage in the San Fernando Valley. It was built by Minnie’s parents, James and Rhonda Hill between 1911 and 1913.
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The two-story Citizen News Building in Hollywood, constructed between 1930 and 1931, served as the headquarters for the Hollywood Citizen-News, operated by Harlan Palmer & his family, from 1931 until the paper ceased publication in 1970.
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