Like the roses that once adorned its façade, the historic Casa de Rosas Campus—once the oldest women’s shelter in Los Angeles—blooms once more to serve an urgent community need, this time as long-term affordable housing for veterans.
Still splendid more than 100 years after its 1893 opening, its magical light-filled Victorian court, open cage elevators, marble stairs, and ornate iron railings make this one of downtown's most photographed icons.
Boasting five structures from the school's earliest period, between 1925 and 1927, each seismically retrofitted and renovated with a unifying PWA Moderne style following the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.