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Norman W. Alpaugh
Norman Walton Alpaugh (1885–1954) was a Canadian architect known for his work in and around Los Angeles, California. Biography Norman Alpaugh was born on September 1, 1885, married Gertrude Belleau Sheetz in 1912, and died on November 15, 1954. He and his wife had at least one son, also named Norman Walton Alpaugh, born in 1914. Career Norman Alpaugh began his career in Toronto in 1906, where he formed a partnership with Charles M. Willmot in 1909. In 1911, he worked briefly in Regina, Saskatchewan before moving to Los Angeles in 1912. He was a partner at Russell and Alpaugh in 1923. Notable buildings Norman's notable works in southern California include: * Temple Emanu-El Synagogue, Los Angeles, 1919, 1923, or 1924-1925 * Ocean Park Casino, Santa Monica, 1921 * Venice Junior High School, Los Angeles, 1922 * First National Bank of Torrance, Torrance, 1921-1922 * Park Wilshire Building, Los Angeles, 1923 Los Angeles Cultural-Historic Monument, LAHCM #934 * Rendallia Apart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural List of regions of California, region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its densely populated coastal region includes Greater Los Angeles (the second-most populous urban agglomeration in the United States) and San Diego County (the second-most populous county in California). The region generally contains ten of California's 58 counties: Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles, San Diego County, California, San Diego, Orange County, California, Orange, Riverside County, California, Riverside, San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino, Kern County, California, Kern, Ventura County, California, Ventura, Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo County, California, San Luis Obispo, and Imperial County, California, Imperial counties. Although geographically smaller than Northern California in land area, Southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People From Los Angeles
The following is a list of notable people who were either born in, lived in, are current residents of, or are otherwise closely associated with the city or county of Los Angeles, California. Those not born in Los Angeles have their places of birth listed instead. Los Angeles natives are also referred to as ''Angelenos'' . A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q * Jack Quaid (born 1992) – actor (''The Boys (TV series), The Boys'') * Anthony Quinn (1915–2001) – actor (originally from Chihuahua City, Mexico) R S T U * Andrew Ullmann (born 1963) – politician * Brendon Urie (born 1987) – singer (born in St. George, Utah) * Terdema Ussery (born 1958) – CEO of NBA's Dallas Mavericks * Cenk Uygur (born 1970) – host of ''The Young Turks'' (born in Istanbul, Turkey) V * Ritchie Valens (1941–1959) – musician, composer * Grace Van Dien (born 1996) – actress * Leslie Van Houten (born 1949) – Charles Manson acoly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Architects
This list of American architects includes WP:N, notable architects and architecture firms with a strong connection to the United States (i.e., born in the United States, located in the United States or known primarily for their work in the United States). For a more complete list, see :American architects and :Architecture firms of the United States. Individuals A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z Firms See also * Architecture of the United States * List of architects * Lists of Americans * * List of African-American architects {{DEFAULTSORT:American architects American architects, Architecture firms of the United States, Lists of American people by occupation, Architects Lists of architects by nationality, American Lists of American artists, Architects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Miro Theater
The El Miro Theater is a partially historic former movie theater on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. Designed by Norman W. Alpaugh in the Art Deco style, it opened in 1934 as a single-screen, 900-seat movie palace. It operated under several different chains in the 20th century and briefly operated on a Spanish language program in the 1980s. All of the original theater except its facade was demolished and then rebuilt as a four-screen multiplex in 1989. AMC Theatres operated the venue until its closure in 2024. History In December 1933, Ira C. Copley, head of Southern California Newspapers Associated, commissioned the construction of a movie theater on Third Street in Santa Monica at the cost of ($ in ). Bernard J. Levitt operated the theater as a lessee. In July 1940, Levitt bought the building from Copley for over $75,000 ($ in ). On April 24, 1963, the El Miro reopened following renovations. New provisions in the theater included an expanded lobby and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Historic districts in the United States, districts, and objects deemed worthy of Historic preservation, preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". The enactment of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing property, contributing resources within historic district (United States), historic districts. For the most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the United States Department of the Interior. Its goals are to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an List of federal agencies in the United States, agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government, within the US Department of the Interior. The service manages all List of national parks of the United States, national parks; most National monument (United States), national monuments; and other natural, historical, and recreational properties, with various title designations. The United States Congress created the agency on August 25, 1916, through the National Park Service Organic Act. Its headquarters is in Washington, D.C., within the main headquarters of the Department of the Interior. The NPS employs about 20,000 people in units covering over in List of states and territories of the United States, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Territories of the United States, US territories. In 2019, the service had more than 279,000 volunteers. The agency is charged with preserving the ecological a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Department Of The Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources. It also administers programs relating to Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States, as well as programs related to historic preservation. About 75% of federal public land is managed by the department, with most of the remainder managed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture's United States Forest Service, Forest Service. The department was created on March 3, 1849. It is headquartered at the Main Interior Building, located at 1849 C Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., NW in Washington, D.C. The department is headed by the United States Secretary of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Boulevard Commercial And Entertainment District
The Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District is a historic district that consists of twelve blocks between the 6200 and 7000 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. This strip of commercial and retail businesses, which includes more than 100 buildings, is recognized for its significance with the entertainment industry, particularly Classical Hollywood cinema, Hollywood and its golden age, and it also features the predominant architecture styles of the 1920s and 1930s. Development of the area that would become the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District began in the 1880s, when several developers recognized the area's potential for entertainment and the arts. The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its Paul de Longpré Residence, first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contributing Property
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district significant. Government agencies, at the state, national, and local level in the United States, have differing definitions of what constitutes a contributing property but there are common characteristics. Local laws often regulate the changes that can be made to contributing structures within designated historic districts. The first local ordinances dealing with the alteration of buildings within historic districts was enacted in Charleston, South Carolina in 1931. Properties within a historic district fall into one of two types of property: contributing and non-contributing. A contributing property, such as a 19th-century mansion, helps make a historic district historic, while a non-contributing property, such as a modern medical cli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles E
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as wikt:churl, churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its deprecating sense in the Middle English period. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University High School (Los Angeles)
University High School Charter, commonly known as "Uni", is a public secondary school, built 1923–1924, and founded 1924, located in West Los Angeles, a district in Los Angeles, California, near the city's border with Santa Monica. University High is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The campus also holds Indian Springs Continuation High School. The school contains the Tongva Sacred Springs, a sacred site of the Tongva–Gabrieleño native people and a registered California Historical Landmark. History While under construction it was known as Sawtelle High School, but it opened as Warren G. Harding High School when completed in 1924, after 29th President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923, served 1921-1923), who had recently died. The school was renamed in 1929 after the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) moved its campus from East Hollywood to Westwood, and the reputation of former President Harding had declined after the infamous Teapot Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
