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Photo by Adrian Scott Fine/L.A. Conservancy

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles

Supported by more than 150 caissons extending up to forty-five feet into bedrock, the tower stood strong for more than sixty years, until the Northridge earthquake struck in 1994.

Photo by Annie Laskey/L.A. Conservancy

The CalEdison

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One of the first all-electrically heated and cooled buildings constructed in the western United States, this fourteen-story, steel-framed 1931 treasure follows a classically inspired Art Deco design.