File:Exterior view - Westlake School for Girls, Dormitory, 700 North Faring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA HABS CA-2791-5.tif

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Exterior view - Westlake School for Girls, Dormitory, 700 North Faring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
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PCR Services Corporation

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Kelly, Arthur, architect
Estep, Joe, architect
Title
Exterior view - Westlake School for Girls, Dormitory, 700 North Faring Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Depicted place California; Los Angeles County; Los Angeles
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS CA-2791-5
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The building was designed by Los Angeles architect Arthur Kelly. The two-story building was originally built as a dormitory for the Westlake School for Girls and was completed in 1928. Kelly, with Joe Estep, designed the entire campus plan for the school as well as all of the initial buildings. They employed a romantic, Southern California regional version of the Spanish Colonial Revival style for the campus architecture. The campus design reflected an extraordinary awareness of the ability of architecture to positively shape the educational environment...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1364
  • Survey number: HABS CA-2791
  • Building/structure dates: 1928 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca3457.photos.366563p
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Object location34° 03′ 07.99″ N, 118° 14′ 34.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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