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List of Registered Historic Places in the City of Angels
List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California


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John Sowden House 2008-06-06 9,800 (photo)
5,600 (article)
... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark?
Biff, the Michigan Wolverine 2008-03-27 8,500 7,900 (article)
600 photo)
...that the Michigan Wolverines' practice of parading their live mascot Biff before matches was stopped as the animal grew larger and more ferocious?
Storer House 2008-06-05 6,600 7,400 (article)
1,300 (photo)
... that Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work, Storer House, was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver, producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix?
McCabe's Guitar Shop 2008-03-27 8,200 7,100 (article)
400 (photo)
...that more than a dozen artists have recorded live albums in the back room of McCabe's Guitar Shop, including Tom Waits, Beck, and R.E.M.? [inaccurate info b/c 2 alternative hooks got mixed]
Thomas Trueblood 2008-01-26 8,300 6,700 (article)
2,000 (photo)
...that University of Michigan elocution professor Thomas Trueblood received nationwide attention when the Chicago Tribune reported in 1903 that he was offering a new "course in love making"?
Golden Gate Theater 2008-05-09 6,200 5,500 (article)
1,000 (photo)
... that the historic Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
Hillcrest Country Club 2008-03-28 6,500 5,400 ...that Groucho Marx joined Hillcrest Country Club even though it was willing to have him as a member?
St. Brendan Catholic Church 2008-03-28 6,000 5,300 (article)
3,400 (orig. photo)
...that St. Brendan's Church has been a location for two apocalypse movies: the Martian attack in 1953's War of the Worlds and the wedding at the end of Armageddon?
Hollywood Masonic Temple 2008-05-28 5,500 5,000 (article)
4,700 (photo)
... that the Neoclassical Hollywood Masonic Temple has been used as a Masonic Lodge, opera house, and nightclub, and is now the home of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! television show?
Bob Chappuis 2007-12-28 8,400 5,000 ...that, after eluding capture for three months when his B-25 bomber was shot down behind enemy lines in World War II, Bob Chappuis was the MVP of the Rose Bowl 60 years ago?
Stimson House 2008-05-05 5,300 4,600 (article)
3,600 (photo)
... that after surviving a dynamite attack in 1896, fraternity parties in the 1940s, and an earthquake in 1994, Stimson House (pictured) is now a convent for Catholic nuns?
Wilshire Boulevard Temple 2008-04-24 5,400 4,500 (article)
3,500 (photo)
...that Wilshire Boulevard Temple, with its landmark Byzantine dome, is the oldest Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles?
Hollywood Studio Club 2008-05-26 5,500 4,500 (article)
2,900 (photo)
... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club?
McCarty Memorial Christian Church 2008-05-01 4,900 4,300 (article)
4,200 (orig. photo)
... that McCarty Church in Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
Lorenzo Tucker 2008-04-25 4,800 4,200 ... that a scandal arose when African-American actor Lorenzo Tucker, known as the "Black Valentino", playing a pimp in a play, kissed Mae West, playing a prostitute?
Jardinette Apartments 2008-05-23 4,550 4,100 (article)
400 (photo)
... that Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America?
St. Augustine Catholic Church 2008-04-17 4,700 4,000 ...that a Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Augustine's and carted a statue of Father Serra to a nearby mosque in October 2001?
St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church 2008-03-30 4,400 4,000 (photo)
3,400 (article)
...that St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church was the site of the baptism of Clark Gable's son, the wedding of Annette Funicello, and the funeral of Mercury Seven astronaut "Gordo" Cooper?
Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church 2008-04-22 5,200 3,900 (article)
2,500 (photo)
...that the bronze of Mary atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the Port of Los Angeles harbor?
Victory Boulevard 2008-03-05 6,000 3,600 (article)
2,700 (photo)
...that Victory Boulevard, running the 25-mile length of the San Fernando Valley, is mentioned in Randy Newman's I Love LA: "Victory Boulevard (We Love It!)"?
Van Nuys Boulevard 2008-03-16 6,900 3,400 ...that Van Nuys Boulevard, running through the heart of LA's San Fernando Valley, was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
Montecito Apartments 2008-05-31 3,400 3,200 (article)
2,700 (photo)
... that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
Centinela Adobe 2008-05-24 3,350 3,200 ... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles?
Wally Weber 2008-02-08 4,100 3,200 ...that Wally Weber, football player, coach and broadcaster at Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"?
Breed Street Shul 2008-04-27 3,500 2,500 ...that Breed Street Shul, now vacant in a Hispanic part of Los Angeles, was the largest Orthodox synagogue in the western United States from 1915 to 1951?
Bump Elliott 2007-12-26 5,300 520 ...that All-American Bump Elliott and his brother Pete Elliott played halfback and quarterback for the Michigan football team that beat the USC Trojans 49-0 in the Rose Bowl 60 years ago on 1 Jan. 1948?
1984 Detroit Tigers season 2007-09-12 8,000 --