Locally Designated

Photo courtesy the Kor Group

Chase Knolls

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.

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.

Photo by Hunter Kerhart

Chouinard (L.A. New Times Western School)

Morgan, Walls, and Clements

As Chouinard Institute of the Arts, this building fostered incredible artistic talent in Los Angeles.

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.