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ALEXANDRIA HOTEL 1905
At a cost of over three million dollars, the Hotel Alexandria was built for developers A.C. Bilicke and R.A. Rowan. Upon its opening , it was instantly...
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BULLOCKS-WILSHIRE STORE 1929
John Bullock, along with partner P.G. Winnett, had retained John Parkinson for his very first store in downtown Los Angeles in 1906. Because the partners profited from...
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LOS ANGELES CITY HALL 1928
Perhaps the best known architectural symbol for the city of Los Angeles is City Hall. A team of three architectural firms, calling themselves the Associated Architects, received the commission in 1925 for this important work. They divided the project as follows...
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MEMORIAL COLISEUM 1923
The Community Development Association, a private group founded by the five leading newspaper publishers, retained John Parkinson to design a stadium which would help to attract to Los Angeles the 1924 Olympic Games. The international site selection committee did not choose...
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
One of Los Angeles' oldest institutions of higher learning, the University of Southern California (USC) was established in 1879, in an area that became known as University Park. By the turn of the century, University Park had become filled...
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UNION STATION 1939
The last of the great train stations built in America was Union Station, located at the northern edge of downtown Los Angeles. In an early effort to reduce urban congestion, the massively scaled new station consolidated...
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HOTEL UTAH 1911
"The Hotel Beautiful," as it was promoted for over 75 years, is hardly an understatement for the largest, and most grand, hotel building designed by the Parkinson firm. Although it officially closed its...
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