39p 634-642 S Alvarado Ave - Westlake Theater - Mission & Spanish Colonial (E)
Image by Kansas Sebastian
National Register of Historic Places No. 09001200
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 546
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Westlake Theatre
634-642 S Alvarado Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Richard D Bates, Jr (Original Structure)
S Charles Lee (Rennovation)
Anthony Heinsbergen (Murals)
"Opened in 1926, the theater had seating for 1,949 patrons and was used for both motion pictures and vaudeville shows. It was built at a reported cost of 0,000. It was designed by Richard D. Bates, Jr., with an exterior in a Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival style. The facade features cast stone Churrigueresque detailing of floral patterns and cartouche relief. The interior contains Adamesque references and murals by Anthony Heinsbergen. Exterior renovations in 1935 were designed by the noted theater architect S. Charles Lee and included an Art Deco ticket kiosk made of red-painted metal, unvarnished aluminum and glass, new lobby doors, and terrazzo sunburst paving in the foyer and front sidewalk. One of the theater's intact features is an original steel-frame, three-story neon sign that reads 'WESTLAKE THEATRE'."
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake_Theatre
Note: The building was apparently sold to the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), with the intent of restoration. However, now that all CRA's have been disbanded, the future of this historic theater is once again in question.
39a 634-642 S Alvarado Ave - Westlake Theater - Mission & Spanish Colonial (E)
Image by Kansas Sebastian
National Register of Historic Places No. 09001200
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 546
__________
Westlake Theatre
634-642 S Alvarado Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Richard D Bates, Jr (Original Structure)
S Charles Lee (Rennovation)
Anthony Heinsbergen (Murals)
"Opened in 1926, the theater had seating for 1,949 patrons and was used for both motion pictures and vaudeville shows. It was built at a reported cost of 0,000. It was designed by Richard D. Bates, Jr., with an exterior in a Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival style. The facade features cast stone Churrigueresque detailing of floral patterns and cartouche relief. The interior contains Adamesque references and murals by Anthony Heinsbergen. Exterior renovations in 1935 were designed by the noted theater architect S. Charles Lee and included an Art Deco ticket kiosk made of red-painted metal, unvarnished aluminum and glass, new lobby doors, and terrazzo sunburst paving in the foyer and front sidewalk. One of the theater's intact features is an original steel-frame, three-story neon sign that reads 'WESTLAKE THEATRE'."
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake_Theatre
Note: The building was apparently sold to the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), with the intent of restoration. However, now that all CRA's have been disbanded, the future of this historic theater is once again in question.
39g 634-642 S Alvarado Ave - Westlake Theater - Mission & Spanish Colonial (E)
Image by Kansas Sebastian
National Register of Historic Places No. 09001200
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 546
__________
Westlake Theatre
634-642 S Alvarado Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Richard D Bates, Jr (Original Structure)
S Charles Lee (Rennovation)
Anthony Heinsbergen (Murals)
"Opened in 1926, the theater had seating for 1,949 patrons and was used for both motion pictures and vaudeville shows. It was built at a reported cost of 0,000. It was designed by Richard D. Bates, Jr., with an exterior in a Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival style. The facade features cast stone Churrigueresque detailing of floral patterns and cartouche relief. The interior contains Adamesque references and murals by Anthony Heinsbergen. Exterior renovations in 1935 were designed by the noted theater architect S. Charles Lee and included an Art Deco ticket kiosk made of red-painted metal, unvarnished aluminum and glass, new lobby doors, and terrazzo sunburst paving in the foyer and front sidewalk. One of the theater's intact features is an original steel-frame, three-story neon sign that reads 'WESTLAKE THEATRE'."
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake_Theatre
Note: The building was apparently sold to the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), with the intent of restoration. However, now that all CRA's have been disbanded, the future of this historic theater is once again in question.
39b 634-642 S Alvarado Ave - Westlake Theater - Mission & Spanish Colonial (E)
Image by Kansas Sebastian
National Register of Historic Places No. 09001200
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 546
__________
Westlake Theatre
634-642 S Alvarado Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Richard D Bates, Jr (Original Structure)
S Charles Lee (Rennovation)
Anthony Heinsbergen (Murals)
"Opened in 1926, the theater had seating for 1,949 patrons and was used for both motion pictures and vaudeville shows. It was built at a reported cost of 0,000. It was designed by Richard D. Bates, Jr., with an exterior in a Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival style. The facade features cast stone Churrigueresque detailing of floral patterns and cartouche relief. The interior contains Adamesque references and murals by Anthony Heinsbergen. Exterior renovations in 1935 were designed by the noted theater architect S. Charles Lee and included an Art Deco ticket kiosk made of red-painted metal, unvarnished aluminum and glass, new lobby doors, and terrazzo sunburst paving in the foyer and front sidewalk. One of the theater's intact features is an original steel-frame, three-story neon sign that reads 'WESTLAKE THEATRE'."
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake_Theatre
Note: The building was apparently sold to the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), with the intent of restoration. However, now that all CRA's have been disbanded, the future of this historic theater is once again in question.
Cincinnati: Carew Tower-Netherland Plaza Hotel
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Cincinnati's tallest building, standing at 49 stories tall, is one of the finest examples of skyscraper modernism in America. The complex contains the Hilton Netherland Plaza (formerly the Omni Netherland Plaza) and the Palm Court, the fromer lobby of the hotel and now the restaurant, which is self-described as the "fionest example of French Art Deco architecture in the world."
The Carew Tower is a particularly coherent series of public areas that ascend upward from the street entrances, and served as the basis for the design of the Empire State Building. As designed, it makes the most complete statement of the 1920s Jazz Age, an embodiment of speed, high style, and a mass-market machine age.
Construction began in September of 1929, just one month before the stock market crash on October 24 that triggered the Great Depression. Because of this, construction was continued on a modified plan. The grand details (architectural motifs, friezes, and decorative metal) that are common on art deco buildings were stopped at the third floor and plain bricks were used on the floors above. Art deco themes can be found throughout the building, particularly in the metalwork and grillwork of the elevators and lights. Rookwood Pottery floral tiles add the "Cincy" touch to the building
The block-square complex cost M, an enormous sum for the time, and was finished in 13 months by crews working seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The Netherland Hotel is a superb example of European-Deco design adapted to commerce; most of the decorative work had been created in France several years prior to construction of the complex and exhibited at the 1925 Exhibition of Decorative Art in Paris.
Two dollars gets you a ticket to the 574 foot (49th floor) observation deck of the tallest building in Cincinnati.
National Register #82003578
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