Designed by one of Southern California's most distinguished residential architects, the Fletcher House illustrates the enduring appeal of period revival styles in the postwar era.
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.
Starting with a Dutch Colonial Revival and building around it, Gehry would strip much of the interior while adding a new exterior of wood clad in plywood, glass, corrugated metal, and chain-link fencing.
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.
The house that launched architect Craig Ellwood's career and the first building he designed after establishing his own practice in 1949, described as one of three seminal postwar California houses.