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Title
Apartment buildings on Rossmore
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1962
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Opened in 1928 at 570 N. Rossmore Avenue, the seven-story Art Deco Ravenswood apartment building was a popular address for celebrities during the golden age of Hollywood and is a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural monument.; Located at 450 North Rossmore and built in 1920 by William Douglas Lee in a French and Spanish colonial revival style, El Royale has nine stories, a penthouse and is a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural monument.
This view down Rossmore Avenue reveals two apartment buildings, the Ravenswood (foreground) and El Royale (background).
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00078401
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Residences-Apartment Buildings
CARL0000080316
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111649
Subject
Ravenswood (Apartment house : Los Angeles, Calif.)
El Royale (Apartment house : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Architecture, Domestic--California--Los Angeles--French influences
Architecture, Domestic--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Lee, William Douglas
Rossmore Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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