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762. Significant dates. Added to NRHP. July 14, 1971. Designated LAHCM. August 13, 2003. John Sowden House, also known as the "Jaws House" or the "Franklin House", is a residence built in 1926 in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California by Lloyd Wright. The house is noted for its use of ornamented textile blocks and for its striking ...
George King was born on 23 January 1919, in Wellington, Shropshire, England and brought up in a Protestant family with strong occult interests. [34] [21] [35] Before founding the Aetherius Society, King had been deeply involved in spiritual healing [4] [36] and had joined various theosophically-based metaphysical groups in London that were a marginal part of the religious scene.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary, 915-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California. [1][2][3][4] Part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, the hospital has a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees, [5][6] supported by a team of 2,000 volunteers and ...
September 21, 1962 [ 2 ] The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. Built in 1893, [ 1 ] the five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork. The building was commissioned by Los Angeles ...
November 17, 1976. Reference no. 168. Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.
Chemosphere. The Chemosphere is a modernist house in Los Angeles, California, designed by John Lautner in 1960. The building, which the Encyclopædia Britannica once called "the most modern home built in the world", [1] is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design.
City Terrace is an unincorporated area of East Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County, California, east of Downtown Los Angeles.It contains City Terrace Elementary School, Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School, Esteban Torres High School, Harrison Elementary School, William R. Anton Elementary School, Hammel Street Elementary School, Anthony Quinn Library, City Terrace Library, and City Terrace Park.
213, 323. Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the east- central region of Los Angeles, California [2] originally home to a small community called Ivanhoe, so named in honor of the novel by Sir Walter Scott. In 1907, the Los Angeles Water Department built the Silver Lake Reservoir, named for LA Water Commissioner Herman ...