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CURRENT PRESERVATION ISSUES (Former) Cathedral of St. Vibiana Citywide Historic Resources Survey Commonwealth Savings & Loan Building |
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PRESERVATION ACTION ALERTS
How can you keep up with these important historic preservation issues and take action to help? Join the Conservancy's e-mail Preservation Action Alert Network! Sent only as needed (up to a few times a year), these e-mails explain urgent action you can take to help save specific Los Angeles landmarks (phone calls, letters, community organizing, petitions, etc.). To join the Action Alert Network, click here and check the box next to Preservation Action Alerts. Thanks for your help! |
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PRESERVATION REPORT CARD In 2003, the Conservancy created the first-ever Los Angeles County Preservation Report Card, grading the 89 jurisdictions of Los Angeles County on the legal protections they've created -- or failed to create -- to safeguard the historic resources in their communities.
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Ambassador Hotel (site of) Designed by Myron Hunt with later alterations by Paul R. Williams, the Ambassador Hotel was one of Los Angeles' defining historic sites and a main catalyst for the development of Wilshire Boulevard. Built on a former dairy farm miles from downtown, the 24-acre resort hotel was a hit from its opening on New Year's Day 1921. It quickly became a tourist attraction, a fashionable winter residence for East Coast society, and a prominent social center. The Ambassador was home to the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, L.A.'s premier night spot for decades; host to six Academy Award ceremonies and to every U.S. President from Herbert Hoover to Richard Nixon; and the site of the tragic assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. The hotel closed in 1989. After a fierce preservation battle spanning two decades, the building was demolished by the Los Angeles Unified School District in 2006. |
