“Make no little plans” is something many of us have heard before, a motto coined by famed urban planner Daniel Burnham. In a place as big and diverse as Los Angeles, a challenge with planning the city’s future is, in part, a matter of scale: UPDATE: Hollywood Community Plan On March 18, 2021, the L.A. […]

Join the Conservancy for a guided walking tour through the historic neighborhood of Westwood-Holmby, or “Little Holmby

The City of Industry does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. This largely industrial city owns and funds the operation of the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, which consists of the Workman House, a nineteenth century adobe; Casa Nueva, a Spanish Colonial Revival residence; and El Campo Santo, one of the oldest cemeteries […]

The Pierce Brothers Mortuary, a Historic-Cultural Monument, was adaptively reused to provide affordable senior housing.

Hermosa Beach established a historic preservation ordinance in 1998 specifically to designate and protect the Bijou Theater. However, the Historic Preservation code identifies two additional buildings that require preservation design review for any proposed changes: the Bank of America building at 90 Pier Avenue and the Hermosa Hotel building at 20-26 Pier Avenue. The ordinance does not establish the […]