This Italianate-style residence is one of the few remaining homes in Los Angeles from the 1870s. An early resident was Mary Foy, L.A.'s first female chief librarian and a leader in the women's suffrage movement

Standing side-by-side on National Boulevard in the Palms neighborhood are two Mid-Century Modern apartment buildings, both of which reflect elements of the post-and-beam school of modernism.

The only complete prefab building system created in the immediate postwar period featured an innovative framing system based on the "wedge connector," an X-shaped, cast-steel mechanism within wood-framed panels.

One of Encino's loveliest Mid-Century Modern designs can be found in the Glazier House, perched above its curving hillside street.