Mid-Century Modern | Los Angeles Conservancy

Mid-Century Modern

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Self Realization Fellowship

This Glendale church has a breathtaking conical roof supported by large curved beams of laminated wood, with a massive stained-glass window covering most of the front of the building.
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Sepulveda Rose

This understated post-and-beam apartment complex is a very graceful application of the Mid-Century Modern post-and-beam idiom to a large-scale building, and deserves notice among Dorman’s higher-profile works.
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Sheats Apartments

Completed in 1949, the building was designed by master architect John Lautner as eight units of student housing. Asymmetrically arranged shapes, from circular volumes to long, flat planes, step up the hill and around each other to form a strangely harmonious, abstractly futuristic, and truly organic-feeling whole.
Photo by Larry Underhill

Sinai Temple

Sinai Temple is a magnificent statement in Expressionist design by architect Sidney Eisenshtat, a graduate of USC’s School of Architecture and student of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Sister Mary Corita Studio in the mid-1960s, courtesy of the Corita Art Center..

Sister Mary Corita Studio

From 1960-1968, Sister Mary Corita Kent used this building as her studio and classroom where she made some of her most recognizable works, hosted creative leaders, and influenced a generation of young artists.
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Spanner Residence

Completed in 1968, this two-story Rex Lotery-designed house is more explicitly vertical than many Modern designs, adapting to a comparatively small lot on a sloping hillside with an irregular plan and multiple levels.
Sportsmen's Lodge, 2015. Photo by Shane Swerdlow.

Sportsmen's Lodge

A rustic fixture on Ventura Boulevard for more than half a century, the Sportsmen's Lodge embodies the story of the San Fernando Valley.

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