The long, narrow Santa Monica Municipal Pier was built in 1909. It became a popular place to walk and fish. A shorter, wider “pleasure pier” featuring a carousel in the Looff Hippodrome was built on its southern side in 1916.
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Oil heiress Aline Barnsdall commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design and build a home for her and her daughter as part of an innovative theatrical community. He named the residence Hollyhock House after Barnsdall’s favorite flower.
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Standing on the site of the 1st mission and fort in California in 1769, the building known as the San Diego Presidio, designed by William Templeton Johnson, was built in 1928-29 by the city of San Diego on land donated by George Marston.
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Nestled in the Arroyo Seco on the west side of Pasadena, the Rose Bowl hosts “the granddaddy of them all”- the annual New Year’s Day Rose Bowl Game. Designed by noted Pasadena architect Myron Hunt, the stadium was built by the Tournament of Roses Association in 1922 and presented to the City of Pasadena.
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Designed by architect Frederick Wallis in the Neo-Mediterranean style, the house that was Upton Sinclair’s home in Monrovia from 1942-1966 was built in 1923 of poured concrete with “ball and ribbon” concrete moldings and Batchelder tile.
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Founded in 1769, the Mission San Diego de Alcalá was the 1st of the mission churches in California. In 1931 it was rebuilt to what architects J. E. Loveless & J. Marshall Miller determined was what the 1813 church must have looked like.
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Architect Robert Stacy-Judd designed and built the Aztec Hotel in 1925. This project launched Stacy-Judd’s exploration and promotion of the Mayan Revival style. He named it the ‘Aztec’ because he believed that the general public was better acquainted with that tribe than with the Maya.
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