Architect Lester Scherer designed the reinforced concrete church in a unique style, combining Art Deco Moderne with Spanish Revival design elements. Located at 3773 E. Third Street in the Wellington Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Art Deco style Residence for pioneer building merchant Perry Whiting designed by Architect Lester G. Scherer in 1930. The house was featured in the film "The Natural" and the television features "Children of the Night" and "With the Bullet" featuring Robert Carradine, and Joan Collins in a tequila advertisement. Eighty-nine doors in the house were salvaged from the old Jonathan Club.
The architect designed many notable Los Angeles landmarks during his career, including the Todd Johnston House in Holmby HIlls, the Mediterranean style Meade House "La Casa de las Campanas" in Hancock Park, and Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church in Boyle Heights.
The house is located at 5120 Linwood Drive in Laughlin Park, an exclusive gated community within the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles.
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A Spanish Revival house designed by architect T. J. Sooth in 1927 originally stood on the site. In 1938 Dr. Milton Berry engaged Architect Lester Scherer to redesign the house with a Colonial Revival facade. Architect Scherer designed many notable Los Angeles landmarks during his career, including the Todd Johnston House in Holmby HIlls, the Mediterranean style Meade House "La Casa de las Campanas" in Hancock Park, and Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church in Boyle Heights. He also designed an Art Deco style residence for pioneer building merchant Perry Whiting in Laughlin Park in 1930.
Located at 2350 N. Vermont Avenue in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Architect Lester Scherer designed the Spanish Colonial Revival style Meade House "La Casa de las Campanas" in 1927. Architectural experts David Gebhard and Robert Winter in their authoritative "An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles", described the house as one of the two "most lively versions of the Mediterranean style to be built in Los Angeles in the 1920s". The massive, thirty-seven room mansion has a three story clock tower housing four massive bells. Declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No. 239) in 1981.
Located at 350 North June Street in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Art Deco style Residence for Pioneer Building Merchant Perry Whiting designed by Architect Lester G. Scherer in 1930. The house was featured in the film "The Natural" and the television features "Children of the Night" and "With the Bullet" featuring Robert Carradine, and Joan Collins in a tequila advertisement. Eighty-nine doors in the house were salvaged from the old Jonathan Club.
The architect designed many notable Los Angeles landmarks during his career, including the Todd Johnston House in Holmby HIlls, the Mediterranean style Meade House "La Casa de las Campanas" in Hancock Park, and Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church in Boyle Heights.
The house is located at 5120 Linwood Drive in Laughlin Park, an exclusive gated community within the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles.
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