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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 16h

The Faulkner House or Faulkner Farm, in Santa Paula was built in 1894. The 2 1/2-story Queen Anne style house with its 3-story octagonal tower was designed and built by the prominent Ventura County firm of Herman Anlauf and Franklin P. Ward. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Faulkner House, Santa Paula, Ventura County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 1d

Cabot's Old Indian Pueblo Museum, Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County

SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 1d

Cabot's Old Indian Pueblo Museum in Desert Hot Springs was built by Cabot Abram Yerxa starting in 1939. The rambling complex was built using local, mostly discarded and abandoned building materials in a rustic version of the Pueblo Revival Style. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 2d

Kellogg House, Heritage Museum of Orange County, Santa Ana, Orange County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 2d

Wrapping up the Halloween weekend for 2025 with what is said to be one of the most haunted houses in Orange County - the Kellogg House at the Heritage Museum of Orange County in Santa Ana. Maybe something to keep in mind when the veil thins again.#SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 3d

In 1769, Spanish explorers led by Gaspar de Portolá made the 1st written record of the tar pits. The 4,439-acre Rancho La Brea was granted to Antonio José Rocha & Nemisio Dominguez in 1828. In 1860, Antonio's son, José, deeded the rancho to Henry Hancock who developed the tar deposits commercially.

La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 3d

Natural asphalt (brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles for millennia. Prof. William Denton recognized animal remains in the tar as fossils in 1875. The 1st large excavation project began in 1909. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photograph

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 4d

Villa Rockledge, originally known as Mariona, was built in Laguna Beach as a summer home by Frank Miller, developer of the Mission Inn in Riverside. Built mainly between 1918 and 1921, the major portion of the villa was designed by Arthur Benton. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Mariona (Villa Rockledge), Laguna Beach, Orange County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 5d

Built on Carroll Avenue in Los Angeles for James Luckenbach in 1887, subsequent owner Kaspare Cohn donated this house to the Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1902 to create a 12-bed hospital that later moved and grew into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Luckenbach House, Carroll Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 6d

Designed by Argentine architect César Pelli working with Norma Merrick Sklarek, the 14-acre Pacific Design Center (PDC) in West Hollywood opened in 1975 with Center Blue (the Blue Whale). Center Green opened in 1988. Center Red opened in 2013. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, Los Angeles County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 7d

The John Ginty House was built on Prospect Hill (now Cortez Hill) during the height of San Diego’s boom period. The 5,400 square foot, two and a half story house was built in about 1886 in the Victorian Stick Style. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

John Ginty House, San Diego, San Diego County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 8d

The Spanish Colonial style clubhouse of the Monday Club of San Luis Obispo was designed by architect Julia Morgan and constructed by local builder James Jepson in 1933-1934. It remains the headquarters of the civic-minded group formed in 1925. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Monday Club, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 9d

The Pioneer Church in Chatsworth, originally the Chatsworth Community Church, was built in 1903 in a simple Victorian style. It was saved from demolition in 1965 when it was moved to Oakwood Memorial Park. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Pioneer Church, Chatsworth, Los Angeles County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 10d

The Ventura County Courthouse Annex was built on a rise overlooking Ventura's Main Street in 1912-13. Found to be seismically unsound, it closed in 1969. It was purchased by the City, restored and opened as San Buenaventura City Hall in 1974. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

San Buenaventura City Hall, Ventura, Ventura County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 11d

The Queen Anne style Fisk House is a picturesque grove house surrounded by citrus groves and formal gardens on the Beverly Ranch in Redlands. Designed by Corydon Bishop, it was built in 1890 and subsequently enlarged. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Fisk House, Beverly Ranch, Redlands, San Bernardino County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 11d

E. M. Stuart, volunteer president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, proposed a Walk of Fame in a 1953 proposal. A promotional unveiling of 8 stars was held on Aug 15, 1958, and the Walk, although not complete, was dedicated on Nov 23, 1960. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hollywood, Los Angeles County

Capitol Records star, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hollywood, Los Angeles County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 12d

The Yost Theater in downtown Santa Ana was designed by local architect Fred Eley in a commercial Classical Revival style. It was the Auditorium Theater when it opened in 1913. It was renamed in 1919 when Ed Yost purchased the building. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 13d

The home of Dr. C.D. Ball and family in Santa Ana's French Park was originally built on Main Street in 1896. It was moved to its current location on Bush Street in 1926 "because Main Street had become too commercial." #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

C.D. Ball House, French Park, Santa Ana, Orange County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 14d

The Harmon-McNeil House in Santa Ana's French Park was built in an Eastlake/Stick Victorian style in 1888 for George Edgar. It is one of the best examples of this style of architecture surviving in Orange County. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Harmon-McNeil House, French Park, Santa Ana, Orange County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 14d

Emigrating from Germany in 1934 to study at the Chicago Art Institute, Frederick Lang was largely self-taught in landscape architecture, practicing from his South Laguna office from 1947. Lang had a notable impact on what Laguna Beach looks like. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 15d

The Rutan House in Santa Ana's French Park was built in the Stick style in about 1895 and remodeled with a Colonial influence in 1920. Prominent attorney Alexander Wallace Rutan owned the house in the 1910s. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Rutan House, French Park, Santa Ana, Orange County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 16d

Completed in May 1929, the Catalina Casino in Avalon on Catalina Island has lived up to its name, in Italian, of meeting place. The Avalon Theatre on the 1st level seats 1154. The 20,000 sq ft ballroom above accommodates at least 1500 dancers.#SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Catalina Casino, Avalon, Catalina Island, Los Angeles County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 18d

The main US Post Office in San Bernardino, designed by Louis A. Simon incorporating Beaux-Arts, Mediterranean Revival and Italianate styles, was built in 1931. It is one of the few remaining buildings in San Bernardino which predates 1950. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

Main US Post Office, San Bernardino, San Bernardino County

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 19d

Dante J "Daniel" Righetti ran a general merchandise store on Main Street in Ventura "offering billiards, cigars, tobacco and confections." The family residence was built in 1895 "along Valdez Alley near the Mission" and moved in 1947. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

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SoCal Landmarks @socallandmarks.bsky.social · 19d

The City of Anaheim dedicated its first city park, developed on Herman A. Dickel's 19 acre ranch at the southwest corner of Lemon and Sycamore, on July 15, 1927. The park was renamed Pearson Park for Charles A. Pearson, mayor from 1945 to 1959. #SoCalLandmarks at bit.ly/38ZDuPC #socal #photography

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