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This handsome Los Feliz house was built in 1912. She needs a little love, but don’t we all? Like my aunt Gladys, nothing a coat of paint can’t fix.

When the people of Budapest have a piece of Soviet-era architecture, like Kossuth Square 4-6 (Béla Pintér, 1972), which they deem…_inappropriate_, especially in a landscape as great as Kossuth Square

I was on the last week and came across something that made me ask, _can a developer make a building so ugly even a YIMBY can’t love it? analogous to the old test o’ faith can God make a rock that he

The social engineers insist it’s green because, despite the fact that with this density comes, say, overburdened resources, emissions from outflow stacks, the Urban Heat Island, car sitting in traffic

I had based my tale of 1238 on the application at Planning for the 36-unit that was being plopped on the site; the demo permit I linked to in the text was issued back in July. Was contacted by an

Couple days ago I posted about the forthcoming loss of an unpresuming little stuccoed side-gabled number which nobody's going to shed a tear over. Well, I will, and you should too. . .

My Lord, who stuccos a house anymore? Seriously, I thought that nonsense disappeared years ago, like kids selling crack or approaching you to replace your pea stone with tar macadam.

Ah, you thought you were going to see the faces of those souls cast into the streets by the Ellis Act. Well this isn’t that kind of blog.

People sure hate courtyard living in Hollywood. Or they love it; that is, at least, they love tearing it down.

In December of 1916 it is announced that Andre H. Cuenod—a Swiss lumberman who came to Los Angeles in 1891—was putting up this nifty Colonial he’d designed himself. The two-story,

In February 1958, one Mr. Norman Leibow bought Carmen’s Garage (U. J. Gray, 1924) at 1314 Echo Park Avenue. Leibow tore off the front thirty feet facing Echo Park and rebuilt it

We launched and were going gangbusters there for a little while, when all went dark…because the City of Los Angeles decided to halt all demolitions, making this blog obsolete! Well, maybe not.

More than just a shadow encroaching; that’s doom. Taix Restaurant, at 1911 West Sunset, has not had her demo permit pulled. Yet. But it will happen. Taix is not long for this world.

A nice piece of San Pedro Streamline is going away. And with it, a big chunk of Southland history.

For our first post, we’ll take a look at 371-377 North St. Andrews Place, at the southwest corner of St. Andrews and Elmwood Avenue.

Los Angeles was sold to me, as she had been to countless others, on the booster’s promise of light and air and orange trees. That I would move here and live in a charming little Spanish