The Mediterranean Revival Style building has special significance as the sole physical reminder of the Temperance and Women's Suffrage Movement in Los Angeles. Built in 1927 to replace an earlier home in nearby Highland Park, the WCTU Home for Women was a spacious building with accomodations for 100 guests. Later a convalescent hospital wing was added. With the passage of time, major earthquake and other safety refiting became necessary and the Home was closed and the building sold to GLAD, an agency for the deaf, in the early 1990's. There was talk of razing the building, but the Eagle Rock Association filed a successful application with the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission to declare the building a historic monument. When GLAD purchased the property in 1994 (the agency's 25th anniversary), they set up offices in two single-story wings that had been added in the 1940s and 1960s and launched a fundraising campaign to renovate the building. After hosting a grand opening in September 1998.

Declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1992 (No. 562). Located at 2235 Norwalk Avenue in Eagle Rock.

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Architect A. Godfrey Bailey designed the International style house for investor Sam Hayden in 1947. The house is located at 604 Trenton Drive in Beverly Hills, California.

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Architect A. GodfreyBailey designed the Colonial Revival style houe for B.W. Tye in 1939. The house is located in the historic Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.

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Architect A. Godfrey Bailey designed the clubhouse and store building for the Lung Kong Tin Yee Association (龙冈亲义公所)in 1948. The association is a worldwide ethnic fraternity also known as the Four Brothers established in 1876. Construction of the transcontinental railroad led many Chinese men often wit their families, especially from Guandong Province to immigrate to California. Many initially arrived in San Francisco and for mutual protection formed family associations.

In 1876, the families of Lew, Quan, Jung, and Chew built a "Lung Kong Ancient Temple" in the heart of San Francisco Chinatown, a replica of the same Temple in Shui Kou County (水口镇), Kaiping built in 1662 as a place of worship and meetings. As years passed, more four-family members arrived in San Francisco. Around 1895, two four-family associations had organized: the San Francisco Lung Kong Association and the San Francisco Mu Tin Association (later changing its name to Ming Yee Association). The former engaged in fraternal activities such as providing a place for meetings, promoting social activities for members, and aiding newly arrived members from Guangdong Province, China. As economic opportunities began to open across the country, four-family members traveled to different parts of the country to work, settle, and form additional four-family associations.

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Architect A.Godfrey Bailey designed the English Tudor style house for B.H. Hulsman in 1933. Located at 5079 Los Feliz Boulevard in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.

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