Locally Designated | Los Angeles Conservancy

Locally Designated

Los Angeles Public Library, Canoga Park Branch (former)
Photo courtesy Architectural Resources Group

CDI Early Learning Center

Bowerman & Hobson
A destination for readers and zigzag roof-lovers alike, the Canoga Park Library was the first Mid-Century Modern-style library to be named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
Photo courtesy the Kor Group

Chase Knolls

Heth Wharton
Ralph Vaughn
This garden apartment community in Sherman Oaks was built in response to the postwar population boom, for those looking for "gracious living in apartment homes."
Photo by Larry Underhill

Chateau Colline

Percy Parke Lewis
An eight-unit apartment house and one of the last remaining apartment buildings in the Westwood section of Wilshire Boulevard constructed before World War II.
Chez Jay photo
Photo courtesy Jay Fiondella Family Trust

Chez Jay

John Butler
A nautical-themed steak house and bar with room for only about ten tables opened in 1959.
Image courtesy City of Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources

Church of the Epiphany

Ernest Coxhead
Arthur B. Benton
The Church of the Epiphany conveys numerous aspects of Lincoln Heights' history, from its Period Revival architecture to its connection to the Chicano Movement.
Photo by Annie Laskey/L.A. Conservancy

Continental Building

John Parkinson
Known as the first skyscraper in downtown L.A., the lavishly decorated 1904 Beaux-Arts style tower remained the city's tallest office building until the late 1950s.
Photo by Adrian Scott Fine/L.A. Conservancy

Crestwood Hills

Whitney Smith
A. Quincy Jones
What began as four musicians wanting to raise the level of middle-income family housing prospered into a utopian community in the middle of some of the most prime real estate in the country.

Pages