Baldwin Hills Village

The idea for Baldwin Hills Village originated in the 1930s when prominent Los Angeles architect Reginald Johnson (1882-1952) decided to create a new type of community. The intent was to provide affordable housing to help the nation recover from the ...

BALCLUTHA (Square-rigger)

With the exception of a few alterations made during the course of her long career as a working vessel and as a museum ship, BALCLUTHA is essentially the same vessel as launched in 1886. She survives as the last square-rigged ...

Balboa Park

Balboa Park includes some of the finest Spanish-Baroque Revival structures in America. The Park was constructed for the Panama-California Exposition in 1915 and enlarged for the California-Pacific International Exposition in 1935.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic Places, ...

Asilomar Conference Grounds

Established in 1913, this was designed as the Young Women's Christian Association's national camp and conference grounds in the West. It is significant for its role in the work of the Association and in the development of the Monterey Peninsula ...

Aquatic Park

Aquatic Park, developed from 1936 to 1939, was one of California's largest Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects reflecting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policy of providing employment to architects and artists during the Great Depression. The centerpiece of this group of ...

Juan de Anza House

Erected c. 1830, the original one-story, rectangular two-room adobe house was "Americanized" and enlarged in the 1850s. The resulting house is typical of the "Americanization" of traditional Mexican houses by early U.S. settlers in the State. The Anza House is ...

Angelus Temple

Complete in 1923, this was the base of operations for Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), a pioneer in the field of radio evangelism and the first to incorporate Hollywood and vaudeville style entertainment techniques in her broadcast sermons and preaching. Her ...

ALMA (Scow Schooner)

ALMA is an excellent example of a once-common, vernacular work-a-day craft found on the major waterways of the United States from Colonial times through the 20th century. While built and operated on the San Francisco Bay, ALMA is in many ...

Alcatraz Island

Begun as a military fortification and the site of the first U.S. lighthouse on the Pacific Coast (1854), Alcatraz was the first official Army prison in the nation. In 1934, the facility was transferred to civilian authority and it became ...

National Historic Landmark - Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead

National Historic Landmark - Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead

A superb example of the Dutch Colonial style.

Modest in size, it has survived with little or no change, and has been continuously occupied since its construction (c. 1766) as the main house of a working ...