The Cape Neddick Light is a lighthouse in Cape Neddick, York, Maine. In 1874 Congress appropriated $15,000 to build a light station at the "Nubble" and in 1879 construction began. Cape Neddick Light Station was dedicated by the U.S. Lighthouse Service and put into use in 1879. It is still in use today. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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Located on nearly an acre in Pasadena's historic Prospect District, the Millard House was Wright's first residence to utilize textile block construction. Wright designed it for Alice Millard, a dealer in antiquities in 1923. Situated in a tree-shaded glen and overlooking a lagoon, the setting is nothing short of mesmerizing. Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. designed a studio for the house in 1926; it compliments the original house in scale and composition. (Lloyd Wright also designed the landscaping). The firm, Marmol Radzinger Associates completed a recent restoration.
The Millard House is located at 645 Prospect Crescent in Pasadena, was last listed for sale in March 2012 for $4,495,000. In the listing, the house was described as "of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most poetic works has only been enhanced with the careful and sensitive restoration work completed by the present owner. The historic importance of the property is underscored with its nomination by the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy to become a U.N.E.S.C.O. World Heritage Site. “La Miniatura” is truly one of the most beautiful properties ever to be offered in Southern California".
The house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1976.
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Architect John Parkinson designed the neoclassical home for Col. John Eldredge Stearns, his wife, Julia, and their daughter Katherine in 1900. Stearns had moved to California after retiring from the real estate business in Nampa, Idaho, where he served as the town’s first mayor.
Parkinson added a carriage house to the property with an attached cottage for the household cook. Later, Stearns separated the carriage house and cottage into separate buildings. Col. Stearns died in 1927, and his wife in 1935. Their daughter Katherine married Thomas A. J. Dockweiler, the eldest son of Isidore and Gertrude Dockweiler, a prominent Los Angeles family.
The Col. John E. Stearns Residence is located at 27 St. James Park in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. The St. James Park Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as of September 27, 1991.
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Angelus Temple- A.F. Leicht, Architect 1923
The mother church of the International Church ot the Foursquare Gospel, founded by Aimee Semple McPherson. Originally, the church had a 5,300 seating capacity, well-suited for the huge crowds that the pentecostal evangelist attracted during the denomination's early years. The concrete temple is designed in a classical style; Roman arch windows interspersed between Doric columns and a shallow dome are its most prominent features.
The church was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1992; it is located at 1100 Glendale Blvd. in Echo Park, across the street from Echo Park Lake.
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The mother church of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, founded by Aimee Semple McPherson. Originally, the church has a 5,300 seating capacity, well-suited for the huge crowds that the pentecostal evangelist attracted during the denomination's early years. The concrete temple is designed in a classical style; Roman arch windows interspersed between Doric columns and a shallow dome are its most prominent features.
The church was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1992; it is located at 1100 Glendale Blvd. in Echo Park, across the street from Echo Park Lake. Photo taken in August 2007.
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