8320-28 Fountain Avenue The three-story building located at 8320-8328 Fountain Avenue is constructed with French Chateauesque architectural features. The zigzag frontage, steep-hipped slate roof, Corinthian molding on the cornice line, corbel turrets, porticos, French doors and casement windows, triangular gables, decorative frieze panels, arched entries, quoins,...
819-25 1/2 Sweetzer Avenue The structures located at 819 through 825-1/2 N. Sweetzer contain traditional courtyard housing elements. They surround a landscaped courtyard which contains a fish pond and ceremonial gateways which serves as a focus for the housing units. The courtyard has always been an...
1302-10 Sweetzer Avenue The seven-story El Mirador apartment building, located at 1302-1310 N. Sweetzer Avenue, is constructed in the Churrigueresque Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style. Hipped and gabled red clay tile roofs cap the rectangular stucco building. Projecting and receding bays define the building's massing and...
1237 - 1239 Vista Street Located mid-block on the west side of North Vista Street, this one-story Craftsman bungalow was constructed in 1917. It is a single-family dwelling, rectangular in plan with a deep setback. The main elevation, which faces east, exhibits wood, horizontal siding. The...
1236 Harper Avenue The buildings at 1236 Harper embody distinctive characteristics of a period that is particularly important in the early period of West Hollywood, the 1920s, an era in which the City saw its first major period of growth. During that time the City, as...
8289 Santa Monica Boulevard Irv's Burgers was developed alongside Route 66 during the cross-country highway's heyday. The paired automobile service station and lunch stand served Route 66 travelers on the final leg of their journey toward the Pacific Ocean and is representative of the early American...
7911 Norton Avenue The 2008 Multi-Family Historic Resources Survey of R2, R3 and R4 zones within the City of West Hollywood has identified a small but significant number of multi-family properties that were designed with a well-landscaped courtyard, the garden court property type. Garden court apartments...
1000-12 1/2 Larrabee Street These Tudor Revival cottages just south of Sunset Boulevard were built in 1924, by Elmer Mauzy, as part of a complex of shops, restaurants and cottages called the "English Village." The development was sizable, and one of the first projects to utilize...
9025 Cynthia Street The four-story church building located at 9025 W. Cynthia Street is a carefully proportioned structure in the Mediterranean Colonial architectural style. Built by members of the Dutch Reform Church in the 1920’s, the First Baptist is likely the only remaining church from the...
916 Genesee Avenue The adobe house and garage at 916 Genessee represent the oldest surviving adobe structure located in the City of West Hollywood. The house and garage are constructed with entirely handmade adobe....