The Spanish Colonial Revival style library was designed by the father and son team of Lewis Eugene Weston and Lewis Eugene Weston Jr. in 1927. Declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No. 302) in 1986.

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Architect Clyde A. Faithful designed the Spanish Colonial Revival style church in 1949. Originally founded in 1892, the present edifice was completed in 1949 with a brick facade, unusual for the style which normally has a stucco finish. The entrance as well as the window above and the bell tower make the most of the Spanish baroque (Churrigueresque) style.

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Very dignified Mediterranean Revival home designed by Wallace Neff in 1925. Located at 1290 Hillcrest Avenue in the Oak Knoll neighborhood of Pasadena, California.

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Born on George Washington's birthday, Architect George Washington Smith received his early trainng at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later at Harvard University and the Académie Julian in Paris. On a visit to Montecito, a rustic suburb of Santa Barbara (California) intending only to stay for the duration of World War I, he remained for an extended time, purchasing land and building a home and studio. The house he built "Casa Dracaena" was an immediate success. Smith discovered his calling. Before long he stopped painting and took up working as an architect full-time in Santa Barbara, remaining for the rest of his life. Before his death in 1930 Smith designed some 80 homes in Santa Barbara County alone. During his lifetime, Smith was one of the most popular architects in the United States, often referred to as the "father" of the Spanish-Colonial Revival style. The Prindle, House, located at 1311 Hillcrest Avenue is typical of his work, designed in a Mediterranean Revival style.

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Architect S. Charles Lee designed the Spanish Revival style house for Joseph and Etta Goldsmith in 1924. Actor Pat O'Brien lived in the house in 1935. O'Brien often played Irish and Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence" in the press. One of the best-known screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s, he played priests, cops, military figures, pilots, and reporters. He is especially well-remembered for his roles in Knute Rockne, All American (1940), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and Some Like It Hot (1959). He was frequently paired onscreen with Hollywood legend James Cagney. O'Brien also appeared on stage and television.

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