<p>The Hollywood & Western Building, also known as The Mayer Building, and formerly known as the "Hollywood Western Building", is a four-story Art Deco office building in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #336 on January 1, 1988, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by S. Charles Lee and built by Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg, the Hollywood & Western Building opened on December 8, 1928. The building was the first location of Motion Picture Association of America, Central Casting, the Hays Office, and The Ben Hecht Company. Hollywood Billiards, Hollywoods oldest pool hall, was located in the lower basement. Over the years its tenants have also included Toppys (a corner coffee shop), Newman Drug Co., Rexall, Bargain Saver, Hollywood Rehearsal Studios, Studio 9, Rock City Arcade, and Cosmopolitan Book Depository.</p><br>
<p>By the 1970s, the building was being used to produce pornography and was slowly converted into individual recording studios and music rehearsal spaces. It was also used as a rehearsal studio for such bands as Guns N&#39; Roses and White Zombie.</p><br>
<p>The building was heavily damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, after which it was vacant for several years.</p><br>
<p>On July 6, 2021, ABS Properties, Inc. announced plans to convert the building into 79 income-restricted apartments, and as of 2024, its tenants include local offices for USA Representative Adam Schiff.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The building is a popular TV and film shoot location, and was featured in Double Indemnity, Ruthless People, and Hollywood Shuffle.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Street Historic District is a historic district in Chaska, Minnesota, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district is roughly bounded by Walnut, Second, Chestnut, and Sixth Streets. It contains burial mounds representing the areas prehistory, and the buildings and structures in the district represent Chaskas period of commercial, industrial, religious, and residential development. Houses within this district include the Greek Revival style and other Neoclassical styles.</p><br>
<p>Chaska Public Square.jpgPublic Square with precontact Native American burial mound</p><br>
<p>Chaska Tenement House.jpgTenement House built c. 1880</p><br>
<p>Walnut St 1.jpgThe K. K. Klammer House, built c. 1896</p><br>
<p>Chris Klein House.jpgThe Chris Klein House, built c. 1900</p><br>
<p>The John Rogers House, built in 1761, is a historic home believed to be one of the oldest existing structures in West Windsor Township, New Jersey. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The home has been listed by Preservation New Jersey on its list of endangered historic sites, as the local and county historical societies disagree about the preservation of the building. The structure was deeded to Mercer County in 1970 when the lands around the house became Mercer County Park. The building was not maintained since it became part of the park; tarps were placed over the roof to protect it from weather. Between 2017 and 2019, the roof of the building was removed and its walls were preserved to create a "constructed ruin" interpretive center.</p><br>
<p>The Walnut Street Historic District is a historic district in Oneonta, New York, USA. The district includes 44 structures located on: Dietz Street, Elm Street, Ford Avenue, Maple Street, and Walnut Street. Changes in rental regulations by the city government concern those involved with the preservation of the historic district.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Walnut Street Historic District is a national historic district located in Springfield, Missouri, United States. The district encompasses more than 150 one and two story frame, brick, cast-stone, or stone dwellings in a thirteen block area. The district includes parts of East Walnut Street, East Elm Street, East McDaniel Street, Cordova Court, South Hampton Avenue, South Florence Avenue, and South National Avenue. The district developed between about 1870 and 1940, with 21 buildings surviving from before 1900, and 59 buildings dating between 1901 and 1910.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, with a boundary decrease in 2001 and boundary increase in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Walnut Street Historic District is a national historic district located at the northern end of Augusta, St. Charles County, Missouri. The District includes residential and commercial buildings constructed from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. Although there have been some minor modifications, the District appears as it did when the town was founded, and many buildings are still owned by descendants of German settlers. Located in the district is the separately listed Staudinger-Grumke House-Store.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Knox County Courthouse is a historic building in Center, Nebraska, the county seat of Knox County.</p><br>
<p>After a series of five elections to determine a county seat, Center — located on two corn fields in the geographic center of the county — was selected in 1901 as the county seat. A first courthouse was built in 1902. The current courthouse was constructed from February to October 1934. In addition to $50,000 raised by the county from tax levies, the courthouse was the first public building in Nebraska to be built using funds and workers from the Civil Works Administration and Federal Emergency Relief Administration.</p><br>
<p>On July 5, 1990, the Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Jerome H. Remick and Company Building is an early 20th-century office building located at 1250 Library Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It later became an annex of the J. L. Hudson Company, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Jerome H. Remick & Company commissioned the three-story building in 1907. Remick was a leading publisher of ragtime music and housed his offices and printing facilities in the structure until 1915. Around this time, the upper three floors were added. Hudsons occupied the building in 1917, first to house its toy department and later as its music store. When the music merchandise was incorporated into Hudsons main store one-block west, the building was unused for several years until it became home of the Berry Rug Company for seven years beginning in 1935. In 1942, appliance retailer The Good Housekeeping Shop, opened and called the building home until the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>In 1992, Fieldstone Properties, owned by brothers Tom and David Carleton, purchased the building and immediately began construction of high-end residential lofts. To date, 6 residential lofts exist on the upper floors. Mindfield, a media company owned by the Carleton brothers and business partner Sean Emery, also occupies space in the building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Jerome H. Remick and Company Building is a six-story building of wood post and beam construction, with red brick walls and limestone detail work. The facade has three bays of triplet windows on all six floors.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>Vicente&#39;s Cuban Cuisine occupies the ground floor of the building, and the upper floors have been restored and are used as residential lofts.</p><br>
<p>On October 1, 2011, a resident of the lofts adorned the buildings 3rd story windows with the message, GO TIGERS, in support of the Detroit Tigers, who were competing in Major League Baseballs postseason playoffs.</p><br>
<p>The Gooch House is a Queen Anne style house located in Frankfort, Kentucky. The building formerly housed the Frankfort Visitor Center and the offices of the Frankfort/Franklin County Tourist & Convention Commission, the Frankfort Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Downtown Frankfort, Inc. It was purchased in 2019 by the Kentucky Distillers Association to be used as the new headquarters for the non-profit trade group that represents the state&#39;s signature Bourbon and distilled spirits industry. The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Hudson County Courthouse or Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Courthouse is located in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The six-story structure was originally built between 1906 and 1910 at a cost of $3,328,016.56. It is considered to be an outstanding example of the Beaux-Arts architectural style in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was used as the primary seat of government for Hudson County from its opening on September 20, 1910 until the construction of the Hudson County Administration Building in 1966. The courthouse was vacant for many years and was scheduled for demolition. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1970. Restoration began in the mid-1970s, and the building was reopened in 1985. In 1984, the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders renamed the building in honor of Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. The restoration of the courthouse was acknowledged by a Victorian Society in America Preservation Award in 1988.</p><br>
<p>As of 2019 the courthouse has eight working courtrooms and also houses the offices of the County Executive, the Hudson County Surrogate and the Hudson County Bar Association; in the past it has been used in a number of television programs and movies, including scenes in the television series Law & Order, the Joker, and for commercials.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The Courthouse was designed by Jersey City native Hugh Roberts, twice a president of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Roberts, brother-in-law of future United States Senator and New Jersey Governor Edward I. Edwards, received a direct appointment as architect. No competition or bidding for designs was held, causing controversy among local architects. The property on which the courthouse stands was obtained from fourteen separate property owners between 1905 and 1914. The chairman of the Court House Commission, Alexander J. Clements and several other local politicians were later indicted for graft. The groundbreaking took place on March 21, 1906 and the cornerstone was laid on December 12, 1906. Construction of the building was done by Wells Brothers of New York City and construction of the interiors and finishes were by John Gill & Son of Cleveland, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is constructed of granite quarried in Hallowell, Maine. The front of the building is visually dominated by four Corinthian columns and a frieze above the main entrance bearing the inscription "Precedent Makes Law; If You Stand Well, Stand Still."</p><br>
<h2>Interiors</h2><br>
<p>Roberts delegated the assignment of artwork to the muralist Francis David Millet, noted for his work as decorations director for the 1893 World&#39;s Columbian Exposition in Chicago; Millet assigned himself two lunettes on the third floor and a dozen small panels in the second floor corridors. Also on the third floor, Millet assigned two lunettes to Charles Yardley Turner, as well as eight more to Kenyon Cox. Cox also provided the groined ceilings. Edwin Blashfield painted the glass dome and the four pendentives between its supporting arches. The Tudor-style legislative chamber of the Board of Freeholders on the second floor was adorned with murals by Howard Pyle depicting early life of the Dutch and English in New Jersey. This room has been called "one of the handsomest legislative chambers in the United States."</p><br>
<p>David G. Lowe, writing in American Heritage magazine, described the interior of the building:</p><br>
<p>The courthouse interior is a rush of color—pearl gray and green-veined marbles, golden light fixtures, yellow, green, and blue paint. Standing in the great central court, one looks up the three stories of the magnificent rotunda to a dome whose outer rim is painted with the signs of the zodiac and whose center is an eye of stained glass worthy of Tiffany. One feels—as one does in the rotunda at the heart of the Capitol in Washington—the dignity of government and the permanence of law.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Plans for restoring the courthouse had been proposed even before it fell into disuse. In 1961, the architectural modelist Theodore Conrad proposed converting the building into a new city hall for Jersey City. The plan would have created a mall in front of the building and surrounded it with additional city buildings and a museum. Another proposal would house a branch of the New Jersey State Museum in the building. Conrad led a citizens group that lobbied for the preservation of the building, and got it listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The award-winning restoration project resulted in the courthouse being reopened in 1985 for the use of the civil courts and other county offices.</p><br>
<h2>Renaming</h2><br>
<p>The Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders renamed the courthouse in 1984 in honor of Associate Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, who had served in the building as Hudson County Assignment Judge from 1947 through 1951. Following the 1989 Supreme Court decision in Texas v. Johnson, which Brennan authored, veterans groups petitioned unsuccessfully to have the name removed, but the Freeholders unanimously voted to retain the name.</p><br>
<p>Anderson House is a historic building located on Georgia Route 44 in Danburg, Georgia, United States and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Greek Revival home probably incorporates an earlier structure built in the 1790s and may have been built by Dr. W.D. Quinn. John Anderson built the home as it now stands. The columns were made in Savannah and the mirrors and cornices were made in England. Fine furniture and imported curtains came from New York City and Chicago. The 24-foot by 35-foot banquet room and the old stone kitchen were located in a separate building connected to the main home by a breezeway.</p><br>
<p>The last Anderson to live in the home was Miss Pink Anderson. This was during the Great Depression and there was no money to maintain the home. The formal gardens and fountain were long gone and vines and undergrowth had taken over. The home sat empty for many years until it was purchased in 1962 by Ernest Walker who painted and remodeled the home. The roof of the old kitchen and dining room had fallen in, with only the 16-18" walls standing, and was demolished. Richard Simms, who bought the home in 1972, added a welcoming porch in the back. They also added a picket fence where an original black iron fence had once been. The home is currently owned by Vinnie and Roderick Dowling. The front porch with its columns faced the formal gardens, fountains, and holly trees. It also had a greenhouse, brick walkways, and a gazebo.</p><br>
<p>A relative of Ernest Walker stated that when Walker purchased the Anderson House there were two slave cabins still intact directly behind the main house and that the cabins had sleeping lofts and were very spartan inside. They were made of pine. A canning shed was located directly west of the house, built in the style of the main house and somewhat ornate in decoration. In the attic of the main house, there were old trunks filled with "day ledgers" from the store that served the community and the plantation dating to the late 1800s. Also in the attic were old dressmaker&#39;s forms and an assortment of old clothes.</p><br>
<p>The home is related to the Willis-Sale-Stennett House (1857) and the Chennault House (completed 1858).</p><br>
<p>The Minnie Hill Palmer House, also known as The Homestead Acre, is the only remaining homestead cottage in the San Fernando Valley. The cottage is a redwood Stick-Eastlake style American Craftsman-Bungalow located on a 1.3 acre site in Chatsworth Park South in the Chatsworth section of Los Angeles, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Exercising their rights under the Homestead Act, James David and Rhonda Jane Hill settled in 1886 on 110 acre of land in what is now Chatsworth. The ranch was later expanded to 230 acre when the Hills bought an adjoining 120 acre ranch where the old stage stop, abandoned with the arrival of the railroads, had been located. Today, a 1.3 acre portion has been preserved and been recognized as a historic site. In late 1886, the Hills&#39; seventh child, Minnie (1886-1981) was born on the ranch. The Hill family built the surviving three-bedroom bungalow between 1911 and 1913 after the original homestead was torn down.</p><br>
<p>Minnie Hill married Alfred Palmer in 1908 and moved to Hawthorne, California, later relocating to Montana where she and her husband farmed. Minnie Hill Palmer and her husband returned to the Chatsworth homestead in 1920 when Minnie&#39;s mother became ill. Lovell inherited the property upon the death of their mother, and Minnie inherited it when Lovell died. She used an antique handplow to work on her fruits and vegetables every morning, plowing land located alongside the golf course, often having to remove errant golf balls as well as weeds from her garden. She continued to raise her own fruits and vegetables and canned 300 jars of old-fashioned jelly each year for Christmas gifts. She later recalled that gophers and coyotes were always a problem on the ranch. When fires devastated the area in 1970, she refused to evacuate and worked alongside firefighters to save the old homestead. The one modern convenience Ms. Palmer enjoyed was television soap operas, which she watched faithfully from 11 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. after working in the garden. When a reporter from the Los Angeles Times visited the homestead in 1968 to write a feature article about her, she cut the interview short at 11 a.m., noting that she refused to speak to visitors or answer the phone while her soap operas were on. She suffered a stroke in 1976 and spent her final years at the Mountain View Sanatarium in Sylmar, California. Palmer died in March 1981 at age 94.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership and operation as a museum</h2><br>
<p>The Homestead Acre and Palmer House have been preserved as they were in 1911 when the surviving cottage was built. It is owned by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and maintained by the Chatsworth Historical Society as a monument to the pioneers who homesteaded the San Fernando Valley. The city maintains the building&#39;s exterior, and the Chatsworth Historical Society maintains the interior. The park was closed in early 2008 when lead contamination was found, but the park re-opened in April 2008 after being found to be safe. The Chatsworth Historical Society conducts tours of the cottage by appointment for groups of 10 or more and on the first Sunday of the month from 1-4 p.m. Many of the trees and flowers on the property were planted by Minnie Hill Palmer and her family. According to the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, the Palmer House has become a popular location for weddings and private parties and is also rented as a movie location.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The Hill Palmer House was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #133) in 1974. Members of the City of Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission noted that the house warranted monument status based on the significant life cycle of Ms. Palmer at the property and the part she and her family and house played in the area&#39;s history. It was also listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is the last remaining homestead in the San Fernando Valley.</p><br>
<p>The William G. Blakely House is a historic house located in Kingman, Arizona. It was evaluated for National Register of Historic Places listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed. It was listed on the National Register in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a Colonial Revival style house built from adobe, topped by an asphalt-shingled hip roof. It was completed in 1887, making it one of the oldest houses in Kingman. The home was assembled elsewhere in northwest Arizona and transported to its permanent location by railroad.</p><br>
<p>From 1887 to 1911, Mr. Blakeley was a miner, lawyer, probate judge, on the school board, and the pastor of St. John&#39;s Methodist Church. This house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>The house was purchased in 2015 by Kingman resident and businessman Bill Barnes who then renovated it and had it re-zoned to commercial for use as an office.</p><br>
<p>W. P. Mahoney House is in Kingman, Arizona. The house was built in 1919–23. It is a Bungalow/Craftsman style house. Mr. Mahoney came to Arizona as an Irish immigrant, worked the western mines until 1912. He organized the first miners union. In 1914 he served in the Arizona House and 1916 Arizona Senate. He came to Kingman and became the Mohave County Sheriff from 1918 to 1926 and he lived in the house from 1919 to 1927. He left Kingman in 1927 and continued in public office till 1967. This house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and the number is 86001163.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>The AT&T Building is a historic building located at the corner of Pine and Third Streets in Kingman, Arizona. The building was built in 1930 by contractors Mead & Mount. Architects Fisher & Fisher designed the building in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Built in a residential area, the building is still used by AT&T. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>The L. B. King and Company Building is a commercial building located at 1274 Library Street in Detroit, Michigan. It is also known as the Annis Furs Building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>L. B. King was born in Detroit in 1851, was educated in the city, and earned a BS degree from the University of Michigan in 1874. After graduation, King joined his father&#39;s crockery and glassware firm, which had been founded in 1849. He rose through the ranks to become president of the company in 1907, by which time the company was specializing as a china wholesaler.</p><br>
<p>In 1910, King engaged architects Rogers and MacFarlane to design this building as their offices; In 1988 the Law Firm of Patterson, Phifer, and Phillips hired Frank Z. Martin to refurbish the building.</p><br>
<p>Both L. B. King and Company and Annis Furs were prominent commercial firms in the history of Detroit. The building was renovated placed on the National Register of Historic Places and the state of Michigan historic register in 1987, and later renovated and reopened in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The L. B. King and Company Building is a six-story commercial building with a steel frame with white terra cotta cladding on the facade. The facade of the lower two stories are virtually all glass; the upper four stories are divided into four vertical sections, each with Chicago-style windows. Atop the building is an elaborate Italian Renaissance cornice which was added in 1926. The building exemplifies the Commercial style of architecture that was extensively used in the early twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>The Randolph Street Commercial Buildings Historic District is a historic district located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, which includes six buildings along Randolph Street between Monroe and Macomb streets . The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Randolph Street Commercial Building Historic District joins the Broadway Avenue Historic District downtown.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Buildings along this section of Randolph Street have been used for retail since the area was first built up in the 1840s. The building at 1236–1244 Randolph was built during the period of original construction, and is a rare survivor from the 1840s. The Victorian styled Odd Fellows Building (1874) is located at the corner of Randolph and Monroe.</p><br>
<p>As the city grew, larger commercial buildings were required and the other structures on Randolph were constructed. The area remained a shopping district into the twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, the street-level facades of the buildings in the district were altered numerous times, two structures had new top stories added, and a cornice removal program in the 1950s resulted in the loss of all the fine bracketed entablatures. However, the buildings still have their Victorian brickwork and metal window hoods.</p><br>
<p>Since construction of the buildings, structures in the district have housed numerous commercial enterprises, ranging from legal offices, to tailors to sculptors. In the early 1900s, the district was home primarily to dry goods and clothing establishments.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>In the Victorian era, this block featured seven adjacent buildings. The St. Claire Hotel, originally at the corner of Randolph and Monroe, was</p><br>
<p>demolished at some point before 1980; the building at 1224 Randolph was demolished in 1929 and replaced. The six buildings within the district when it was listed in 1980 are:</p><br>
<p>1208 Randolph (Odd Fellows Hall): This building is a four-story seven-bay example of high Victorian Italianate architecture, and was constructed by the Odd Fellows in 1874. The ground floor contains window display, while the second story window treatment includes alternating window heights, stone coping and stone hood moulds. The topmost floor of the facade was extensively remodeled from its original appearance in about 1900.</p><br>
<p>1218 Randolph: The four-story Victorian commercial structure at this location, probably constructed in 1872, was demolished at some point after 1980. It was a four-story, Victorian commercial structure.</p><br>
<p>1224 Randolph: In 1874, a four-story Victorian commercial structure, almost a replica of 1218, was constructed here as the Laitner Brush Factory. In 1929 it was demolished and replaced with a two-story, white marble branch bank building. The second floor has a recessed arched window enframed with a wide marble rope molding.</p><br>
<p>1228–1230 Randolph: This Victorian commercial structure was probably built about 1870. It is three bays wide by four stories high, with vertical pilasters separating the bays. The second and third story window caps are pressed metal and project out from the facade.</p><br>
<p>1232–1234 Randolph: This Victorian commercial structure is a virtual twin to the one at 1228/30, and was built at about the same time. The second and third story window are simpler than the ones next door.</p><br>
<p>1236–1244 Randolph: This structure is a composite of three three-story buildings which have been slowly consolidated into one over time. A smaller building at 1236 adjoins the main three-bay-wide building in the center. An addition expanded the building to the corner. Although the facades of the buildings have lost any architectural distinction, the two older buildings likely date from the 1840s.</p><br>
<p>The Old Warner Brothers Studio, now known as the Sunset Bronson Studios , is a motion picture, radio and television production facility located on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The studio was the site where the first talking feature film, The Jazz Singer, was filmed in 1927.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1919, the main building fronting Sunset Boulevard became a bowling alley during a fallow time in the 1940s and 50s. In the mid-1950s, the studio lot was divided in two between KTLA television and Paramount Pictures. In 1963, the entire lot was taken over by new owner Gene Autry (as KTLA Studios) and became the home of KTLA Television: Golden West Broadcasters. In 1984, the lot was purchased by Tribune Company (as Tribune Studios), before finally coming under the ownership of Hudson Pacific Properties as Sunset Bronson Studios in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Due to its role in the history of the motion picture business, the site was designated as a Historic Cultural Landmark in LAHCM 1977. The distinctive Executive Office Building, part of Warner Brothers&#39; original studio lot, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Warner Bros. Studio</h3><br>
<p>The first studio facilities at 5800 Sunset Boulevard were built in 1919. They were acquired by Warner Bros. in the early 1920s and served as the companys executive offices and principal studios. In 1923, the Western Motion Picture Advertisers Association held its "WAMPAS Frolic" at "the new Warner Brothers&#39; studio on Sunset Boulevard" with "a great aggregation of film luminaries present." At the time, the studio was 350 ft long and 200 ft wide, "making it the largest covered-over stage in the world."</p><br>
<p>The site has been recognized as historically significant in large part due to its having been the location where the first talking feature-length motion picture, The Jazz Singer was filmed in 1927. It was also the studio for radio station KFWB in its early years as Warner Bros.&#39; Los Angeles radio station.</p><br>
<p>In 1930, Warner Bros. announced the consolidation of its executive offices with those of First National Pictures, with the executive offices being moved from the Sunset Boulevard studio to the First National Studios in Burbank, California. Warner also began moving its filming to the Burbank studios in 1930 and 1931, though the Sunset Boulevard studios remained in active use during the 1930s both for motion picture filming and "phonograph recordings." Even after the move to Burbank, Warner continued to film motion pictures at its Sunset Boulevard studios in the 1930s. Warner&#39;s classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were produced at the Sunset studio facilities, from 1933 to 1955. In 1933, the Los Angeles Times reported that Warner Bros., "contrary to the popular view, is keeping its Sunset Boulevard studio in active use, with a company or two shooting there each day, and is also using the old Vitagraph plant." In December 1934, a fire destroyed 15 acre of the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, forcing the company to put its Sunset Boulevard studio back into full use. At the time of the fire, Jack L. Warner noted: "We have ample facilities at our Sunset Boulevard studio to take care of all immediate mechanical and constructional requirements."</p><br>
<p>By 1935, film historians were already noting the loss of the industry&#39;s early studio facilities, many of which had become ghost towns, but the Warner Bros. Sunset studios were still running at full production:</p><br>
<p>Warner Brothers Studio on Sunset Boulevard is far from dead. Probably more shooting is done there than at the First National plant Warners absorbed, for there are four modern stages there. But the ghost stage is the one on which history was made -- Stage 3, on which the first all-talking picture was made. It is a small stage, though and sentiment -- except as it applied to relatives who have to be on the payroll or else supported some other way -- has very little to do with making pictures.</p><br>
<h3>Bowling alley and sports center</h3><br>
<p>By 1937 Warner had closed the Sunset Boulevard studio and the property had been converted into a bowling alley and "sports center". The Los Angeles Times reported on the conversion of the historic studio as follows:</p><br>
<p>Note on the passing of an era: A painted sign hung over the front door is all there is to indicate that the Warner Bros. Sunset studio is no more. The birthplace of the Vitaphone is a sports center, and Stage One, where many of the first talkies retched their way into being, is a battery of badminton courts.</p><br>
<h3>Paramount and KTLA television studios</h3><br>
<p>In 1954, the Sunset Boulevard studio resumed its association with the entertainment business as television pioneer Klaus Landsberg, vice-president of Paramount Television Productions and general manager of KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi, acquired the 10 acre site as the future home of Paramount Television Productions. Paramount undertook a $2 million reconstruction program at the site.</p><br>
<p>In 1955 Paramount razed the older buildings at the studio. The Los Angeles Times noted at the time: "The birthplace of the talkies is disappearing into dust in Hollywood. Demolition crews are razing the older buildings of the old Warner Bros. Sunset Blvd. studio where the nasal voice of Al Jolson recorded on Vitaphone, first made talking pictures a commercial reality." At the time, Klaus Landsberg noted that "only the older buildings, including the historic Stage 1, are being destroyed, that newer facilities on the big lot are being renovated and reconditioned for the television operation." The old executive office building and large antenna which for years displayed the words "Warner Bros. Vitaphone" were preserved. However, the old theater where Warner executives watched screenings of the studio&#39;s latest works was destroyed.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, Gene Autry and his company, Golden West Broadcasters, acquired the old studio property from Paramount for $5 million. Golden West had previously acquired KTLA and had been leasing the space from Paramount.</p><br>
<p>In 1977, a celebration was held in Hollywood marking the 50th anniversary of the talking motion picture, including a parade of old cars ending at the KTLA studios where The Jazz Singer had been filmed 50 years earlier. The United States Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar and MPAA President Jack Valenti were on hand for the first-day issue ceremony of a commemorative stamp honoring the 50th anniversary of the first "talking picture." According to a Los Angeles Times report at the time, the 1977 parade carried former film greats "to Stage Six at KTLA, the same stage that was the site of The Jazz Singer".</p><br>
<p>With the sale of KTLA from Golden West in 1982, the studios had three owners in the 1980s, with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts owning them from late 1982 until 1984, when Tribune Broadcasting acquired them.</p><br>
<h3>Sunset Bronson Studios</h3><br>
<p>In 2001, Tribune Entertainment Company, then the owner of the site, announced plans to overhaul the Sunset Boulevard studio facility, transforming it into the nations first fully digital studio lot at a cost between $10 million and $20 million. In January 2008, Tribune Entertainment sold the studios to Hudson Capital, LLC, (now Hudson Pacific Properties) for $125 million. At the time of 2008 transition, productions at the studio facility included television series Judge Judy (1996–2021), Judge Joe Brown (1998–2013), Judge Alex (2010–2014), Divorce Court (1999–2018), Hannah Montana (2008–2011), Phenomenon (2007–2008), and others. Tribune Studios was then renamed Sunset Bronson Studios and became co-owned with nearby Sunset Gower Studios, the former Columbia Pictures studio lot. Lets Make a Deal was taped at the studio from 2010–2015.</p><br>
<p>Hudson Pacific Properties announced in 2014 plans to build a 14-story office tower next door to the landmark executive office building. This cast-in-place, cantilevered structure was designed by Gensler and built by McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. This anchors the expansion of Sunset Bronson Studios that also includes a 1,600-space parking structure and a five-story, 90,000-square-foot production building. An iconic 160-foot former radio tower was dismantled in December 2014 to make way for construction of an office building by Hudson Pacific Properties. After structural retrofitting and renovation, it was restored and relocated to its original location. The tower was erected in 1925 as one of two that served Warner Bros.&#39; affiliate radio station, KFWB. While one of the towers was dismantled in 1950, this one was moved. In 1955, KTLA moved into the site and added its call sign and logo to the tower. Visible from the Hollywood Freeway, it was a notable landmark for over 60 years.</p><br>
<p>The new office tower holds production offices for Netflix. Netflix also now occupies most of the studio lot&#39;s sound stages for content production.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>In 1977, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson asked the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission to declare the KTLA-KMPC production facilities a historic monument. The proposal was time to coincide with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of The Jazz Singer and was based on the facilities role as "the site of the filming of the first feature film with synchronized dialogue, Warner Bros. The Jazz Singer, filmed there in 1927 when the studio was the home of Warner Bros." The Commission followed the recommendation and declared the studio facilities at 5800 Sunset Boulevard a Historic Cultural Monument (HCM #180) in September 1977 as the "Site of the Filming of the First Talking Film." In 1979, the Los Angeles Times wrote an article criticizing the city&#39;s failure to preserve the early studio buildings of the motion picture industry and noted that only a handful of film industry sites, including the Old Warner Bros. Studio on Sunset, had been designated as Historic Cultural Monuments. The facilities were also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Ebenezeb B. Williams House is a historic house in Kingman, Arizona. The house was built in 1887. It is a Queen Anne style home. This is one of the earliest homes on Oak Street. Williams was the Mohave County Attorney in the 1880s. This house is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>The Park Plaza Apartments were one of the first and most prominent Art Deco apartment buildings erected in the Bronx in New York City. The eight-story, polychromatic terra cotta embellished structure at 1005 Jerome Avenue and West 164th Street was designed by Horace Ginsberg and Marvin Fine and completed in 1931. It is an eight-story building divided into five blocks or section, each six bays wide. There are about 200 apartments, ranging from one to five rooms.</p><br>
<p>Officially designated a New York City Landmark in 1981, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, it faced the lushly treed landscape of Macombs Dam Park until 2006, when the 28 acre park was condemned for a new Yankee Stadium.</p><br>
<p>The Foster S. Dennis House is a Queen Anne style house located in Kingman, Arizona. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Foster S. Dennis House is located at corner of Second and Park Streets in Kingman, Arizona. The home was built in 1889 in Queen Anne Style architecture. There are shingles on the adobe. Mr. Dennis came to Arizona in 1883 as a miner. He set up a pipeline for water to Kingman from Beale Springs. He was Mohave County Treasurer for several terms and served in the Arizona Territorial Legislature for 1891–92. This house is on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Dr. David S. Livingston House is a historic house in Kingman, Arizona. The house was built in 1889. The home is of Colonial Revival style. He was an early Kingman Doctor and he was the railroads division surgeon. He later moved to Prescott in 1891. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places and the number is 86001158.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>Hubbs House is Queen Anne style built in 1893 at 4th and Golconda Streets in Kingman, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>The house has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978. Its historic status was reviewed as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>The home today is owned by the City of Kingman and is used by Head Start.</p><br>
<h2>Description and construction</h2><br>
<p>The house is an early adobe construction, made of adobe with clapboard siding.</p><br>
<p>Harvey Hubbs most likely designed the home, John Mulligan & William Aitken were the contractors.</p><br>
<h2>Hubbs Family</h2><br>
<p>Harvey Hubbs was on the way back from Tucson where he had driven cattle from his home in Tulare County, California. He stopped in Kingman for the night and his horse either disappeared or was stolen along with all of his belongings. Forced to stay, he got a job being a teamster for the mines. He met Johanna Wilkinson, who with her sister, Francis, had set up tents to feed the miners and railroad workers and provide a place for them to sleep. After Harvey and Johanna married in 1887, they constructed Kingmans first hotel, the Hubbs House. It caught fire nine times and burned down two times including the Kingman Fire of 1898. Many of the fires were caused by miners and workers smoking opium in the hotel rooms. Opium could be bought over the counter at that time. Water had to be brought into Kingman from at a spring over two miles away or from Peach Springs which was 50 miles away so there was never water to fight the fires. Each time the Hubbs rebuilt their hotel. After the second total destruction of the hotel, Harvey Hotel Beale in 1903. He was offered to be a partner in building the Brunswick Hotel next door, but declined not feeling comfortable with the other business partners. The Hotel Beale still stands in Kingman although it is in disrepair. It is presumably on the site where Johanna and her sister first erected their tents. The Hotel Beale was considered Kingmans most luxurious hotel. In 1906, Harvey sold the hotel to the Devine family whose son, Andy Devine, was a famous movie star from 1920 to 1950. The Hotel Beale closed in the early years of the depression, then re-opened from 1936 to 1942. Interstate 40 was constructed bypassing Kingman and Route 66 and the hotel closed again. Harvey and Johanna Hubbs are somewhat forgotten pioneers of Kingman having played a major role in its development. Harvey served as Mohave County Sheriff and as a county commissioner and county treasurer. He co-owned the Mohave Miner newspaper and helped bring about Kingman&#39;s first water system. His home was the first home in Kingman built in the Queen Ann style and was the first home in Kingman to have running water. It is had been restored and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>other usesLittle Red Schoolhouse </p><br>
<p>The Little Red School is a former school building located in Kingman, Arizona, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Little Red School is located at 219 Fourth Street in Kingman, Arizona. The building was constructed in 1896 in the Queen Anne style, with the firm Hartley, Cooper & Hines recorded as the architects or builders or both. It replaced an earlier school building, Kingman&#39;s first, and remained in use until 1928. Actor Andy Devine was an alumnus of the school.</p><br>
<p>After the closure of the school the building hosted the activities of several local groups. Kingmans Catholic community met there until the construction of St. Marys church, and the Christian Science Church and the Elks Lodge used the building at various periods. During World War II the Ration Board operated out of the schoolhouse. After the war Kingmans Chamber of Commerce briefly used the building as their office, sharing it with the Public Library. After the library outgrew the premises the building came under the ownership of the City of Kingman; it is today the citys Magistrate&#39;s Office.</p><br>
<p>The building was mentioned in a survey of historic properties in Kingman.</p><br>
<p>The Ross H. Blakely House is a Queen Anne style house located in Kingman, Arizona. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ross H. Blakely House is located at 519 Spring Street in Kingman, Arizona. The home was built in 1897 and it is a Queen Anne style. Ross Blakeley was the son of William G. Blakely. He passed the bar in 1910 and started his practice. He also did some ranching. He served in county and territorial positions and was very active in the civic affairs of Kingman. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The house at 519 Golconda Avenue is a cottage located in Kingman, Arizona. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house at 519 Golconda Avenue in Kingman, Arizona was built in 1897. The house is an indigenous cottage. This is another south side home across the railroad track. This house was a typical workers&#39; home. The house is on the National Register of Historical Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. M. P. Sargent House is located at 426 Topeka Street in Kingman, Arizona. The house was built in 1897. The home is of Queen Anne style. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986, and its number is 86001167.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Tyrell House is a historic house in Kingman, Arizona. The home was built in 1897 and is an indigenous cottage. Mr. Tyrell built this house and lived in there for two years. His main profession was a painter. The property also has a pump house. This is the first house to have indoor plumbing. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places, number 86001172.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>Lefever House is a Bungalow/Craftsman style house located in Kingman, Arizona. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Lefever House was built around 1900 and is of the Bungalow/Craftsman style. The home is one of the oldest wood-frame home in the city. Mr. Lefever was the Mohave County Recorder starting in 1898. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>Elks&#39; Lodge No. 468 is a Romanesque-style clubhouse located in Kingman, Arizona. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Elks&#39; Lodge No. 468 is located at the Corner of Fourth and Oak Streets in Kingman, Arizona. The building was started in 1903–04 with modifications in 1913. The building is of Romanesque/Richardsonian style. C. E. Walker was the architect and Norman Hale was the contractor. Mr. Hale was an expert stonemason from the 1890s to the early 1900s. The stone was native and came from Metcalfe Quarry. The first fraternal lodge in Kingman, IOOF and Knights of Pythias also used the lodge. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Saint Marys Catholic Church is between Third and Spring Streets in Kingman, Arizona. The church was built in 1906–07 with the Mission/Spanish Revival style. The native stone came from Metcalfe Quarry. The Catholic Church had two fundraising events to help raise money for St. Marys and they were done in 1903 and 06. The church served Kingman from 1906 to 63. This church is on the National Register of Historic Places and the number is 86001166.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>The Paulding County Courthouse is a historic governmental building in downtown Paulding, Ohio, United States. A Richardsonian Romanesque building erected in 1886,</p><br>
<p>When Paulding County was established in 1820, the small community of Charloe was named the county seat. This arrangement proved to be short-lived: the community of Paulding grew significantly while Charloe stagnated, and the county seat was eventually moved to the larger village. Once Paulding had been named the county seat, the countys second courthouse was erected on the villages central square in 1837. After approximately fifty years of service, this frame structure was demolished, and the present structure was built on the same location in 1886.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the E.O. Fallis Company and built by workers under the direction of general contractor Rudolph Ehrhart, Two-and-one-half stories tall with a central tower, the courthouse features nearly identical entrances on each of its four sides. Measuring 60 ft square, and 163 ft tall at the tip of its domed tower, the courthouse was patterned after the Lenawee County Courthouse in Michigan, which was also designed by the Fallis architects.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, the Paulding County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due to its well-preserved architecture that was deemed significant statewide. It is one of four buildings in Paulding County on the Register, along with a rural round barn, a former train station in the village of Antwerp, and the Carnegie library in Paulding.</p><br>
<p>Desert Power & Water Co. Electric Power Plant is located at 120 Andy Devine Avenue in Kingman, Arizona. The building was built in 1907–08 with additions in the following years 1909 through 1911. Tracy Engineering Company was the architect and McCafe Contracting Company of Los Angeles was the contractor. The oil-fired plant was considered one of the largest steam electric power plants in the Western United States. It had a powerhouse, transformer house and office for Desert Power and Water. It operated until 1938; Hoover Dam took over the power supply. The building was vacant for some time, then used as a salvage yard.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, two local woman (Lilia Bumbullis & Cynthia McCafferty) got together and formed a group known as "The Powerhouse Gang." The group began a fund-raising pitch: “Join the Powerhouse GangElectrify Kingman”. In 1997, the building was open to the public as the "Powerhouse Visitor Center” and housed an Arizona Visitor Information Center, the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona Gift Shop, and Memory Lane 50&#39;s Diner (closed in 2003). A front-page article in The Kingman Daily Miner (local paper) on October 22, 1997, wrote that “…the building officially begins its new life as a visitor center designed to generate tourism energy”.</p><br>
<p>The building belongs to the City of Kingman and is the home of the Kingman Tourism Office and Visitor Center, the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona and the "Arizona Route 66 Museum".</p><br>
<p>The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The historic Mohave County Courthouse and Jail buildings on Spring Street at North 4th Street in Kingman, Mohave County, northwestern Arizona, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The jail was built in 1909 and the adjacent courthouse was built in 1915.</p><br>
<h2>County courthouse</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse was deemed "significant for its association with the national trend for construction of civic buildings in the Neo Classic style at the turn of the twentieth century. The Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 formally promoted Neo Classic design as a statement of the countrys democratic ideals and set a national precedent for Neo Classic architecture. The Neo Classic design of the Mohave County Courthouse embodies this ideology and expresses the nationalistic desire of the county. The projection of these ideals was particularly timely and relevant in Arizona, which had achieved statehood status only two years before."</p><br>
<p>The county courthouse was built in 1915, also in the Neoclassical style, and was designed by the architectural firm Lescher & Kibbey based in Phoenix. J. M. Wheeler, and Collamore & Sons from Arkansas, were the contractors. The court house was built with native cut stone from the Metcalfe Quarry.</p><br>
<p>The court house was used by the Mohave County government for 70 years.</p><br>
<h2>Historic jail</h2><br>
<p>The jail, adjacent and to the east of the courthouse, was built in 1909–10 in the Neoclassical style. It is a two-story building about 35x25 ft in plan with a corbelled cornice. The Pauley Jail Co. provided the design and John Mulligan was the contractor. The new jail replaced the old jail, because the prisoners were breaking out too easily.</p><br>
<p>In 1984 the 1909 jail building was used as a county offices building.</p><br>
<p>In 2022 the building still exists, facing south, nestled between the courthouse and the much larger Mohave County Superior Court building.</p><br>
<p>A more modern and much larger jail, now considered the "Old Mohave County jail", was later built across Pine Street behind the courthouse and historic jail. In 2023, that jail building on Pine Street was slated to be demolished to make way for a new county justice center.</p><br>
<p>The jail serving the county in 2023, at 501 Historic Route 66 in Kingman, was built in 2010. It is a 688 bed county jail, about a half mile from the courthouse and 1909 jail.</p><br>
<p>Both buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The R. L. Anderson House is a Bungalow/Craftsman style house located in Kingman, Arizona. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The R. L. Anderson House is located at 703 Beale Street in Kingman, Arizona. The home was built around 1915 by Lovin & Withers in the Bungalow/Craftsman style. It is one of the houses built with brick instead of stone or wood or adobe style. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as No. 87001160.</p><br>
<p>The J. M. Gates House is a Bungalow/Craftsman-style house located in Kingman, Arizona. It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The J. M. Gates House is located at 714 East Oak Street in Kingman, Arizona. The house was built in 1915 in the Bungalow/Craftsman style with the only bungalow with a corner entry. Mr. Gates came to Arizona in 1910, worked at a mercantile store in Chloride, Arizona. In 1915, Gates and local businessmen Allen E. and John Ware started the Central Commercial Company. The store open in 1917, eventually the Gates family owned the business. The family occupied the home until 1952. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Bonelli House is at the corner of Fifth and Spring Streets in Kingman, Arizona, United States. The house was built in 1915. It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>George Bonelli built the house in 1915 with local Peach Springs Tuff stone from Metcalfe Quarry. The home is two stories, rectangular, and has a low hipped-roof with dormers. The veranda on three sides is supported by square wooden pillars. The decorative front center entry door has a transom and sidelights. The house features interior chimneys, doors and tall windows for ventilation. The stone walls are 18- to 22-inches wide, with lathe-and-plaster interior. The early plumbing and wiring is intact but has been brought up to code and many original furnishings remain. This is Anglo-territorial-style architecture well suited for the desert climate.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This was the second home and built on the same property but not same location; the original home burned down in January, 1915. The family raised nine children and ran four businesses in the area. In Kingman, the Bonellis owned a large ranch, a general store and jewelry store; about 20 miles to the northwest, the Bonelli family owned and operated a general store and meat market in Chloride, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>The property belongs to the City of Kingman and is operated as a historic house museum by the Mohave County Historical Society. The Society also operates the Mohave Museum of History and Arts and the AZ Route 66 Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Raymond Carr House is a Colonial Revival style house located in Kingman, Arizona. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Raymond Carr House is located at 620 Oak Street in Kingman, Arizona. The home was built in 1916 in the Neo-Colonial Revival style. B. Allen Brown and H. W. Charleton & Co. were the architect and contractor. It has a native stone foundation including the lower wall, and stone came from A. H. Smith Quarry. The two story adobe home is one of the largest homes built in Kingman and was considered an upper class residence. Mr. Carr was one of Mohave Countys early pioneers. A livestock rancher, he also co-owned several Kingman businesses, including its second bank, Citizens Bank, the Kingman Drug Co., and Arizona Stores. His wife, Effie, active in many civic groups, was Worthy Grand Matron of Arizona for the Eastern Star organization. Then house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The home is currently occupied by Carol Gordon who purchased it with her deceased husband Wesley Gordon in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Ross E. Householder House is at 431 Spring Street, Kingman, Arizona. The house was built in 1916–23. The house is Bungalow/Craftsman style. It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by R. E. Householder. Mr. Householder was a mining engineer who owned his own business of civil and mining engineering from 1919 to 1940. During the 1930s, he was the Mohave County Engineer. He did serve in the Arizona Legislature.</p><br>
<p>Lovin and Withers Cottages are a complex of five Bungalow/Craftsman style cottages located in Kingman, Arizona. The cottages are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Lovin and Withers Cottages are located at the corner of Eighth and Topeka Streets in Kingman, Arizona. The five cottages were built in 1916 in the style Bungalow/Craftsman style. The five cottages are investment property, back then rentals were known as investments. There are five workers’ cottages as a complex. The five cottages were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>O. E. Walker House is at 906 Madison Street, Kingman, Arizona. The house was built around c. 1916. The house is in Bungalow/Craftsman style. The house is the only stone bungalow/Neo Colonial Revival style in Kingman. The house was built in native stone. Mr. Walker was member of Mohave County Board of Supervisors. Minnie E. Gulley set up operation of hospital in the house on August 19. It was known as the first hospital in Kingman. The house is on the National Register of Historical Places and the number is 86001175.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Toler R. White House is at 509 Spring Street, Kingman, Arizona. The house was built in 1916. The house is a bungalow/Craftsman style. Dr. White came to town in 1910 or so, after working in the mining and reservations doctor. He lived here until his death in 1945. The home is on the National Register of Historical Places, and its reference number is 86001176.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>The building at 218 Spring Street is a Bungalow/Craftsman-style apartment house located in Kingman, Arizona. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>218 Spring Street in Kingman, Arizona was built around 1917 in the Bungalow/Craftsman style, during the 1910s growth period. The building is a multi-residential or apartment house and is an investment or rental property. The major owner is unknown. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Rialto Theatre in Tacoma, Washington was built in 1918 to showcase movies. Its design reflects the affluence following World War I. It reflects the character of a palace and is the result of efforts by entrepreneur Henry T. Moore and Tacoma architect Roland E. Borhek.</p><br>
<p>Designed to hold 1500 patrons (revised to 780 today) and retail space. The two-and-a-half-story structure is in the historic downtown of Tacoma. The area has long been associated with theaters and entertainment. The theater is freestanding, with a dramatic view on an incline with a classical façade sheathed of glazed white terra cotta. Both the interior and exterior retain most of the original design of Roland E. Borhek. The theater has an auditorium, proscenium with stage, a relocated projection booth, balcony, lobby, and commercial space. It has been altered with the removal of the storefronts and marquee. On the inside, the lobby&#39;s decorative ceiling has been hidden and the concession areas expanded.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>The walls are patterned, buff-toned stucco with a muted backdrop for the classical decorative features. The decorative features are glazed, white terra cotta and applied around the main entrance. The roof above the auditorium is gabled and flat, abutting the parapets. It is brick and hollow clay tile construction with a steel truss roof system over the auditorium. Reinforced concrete beams support the proscenium arch and balcony.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is rounded at the northeast corner and sheathed in the terra cotta. The classical decorative features are concentrated around the entrance. Three arched openings form a semi-circular arcaded entry with a ticket window, a double leaf glass door, and terrazzo flooring and marble kickplating. A replicated three-part flower petal marquee projects out over the entranceway. The second story is enclosed and capped with decorative parapet with lighted finials. The fenestration on the upper facade of the turret-like corner mirrors the arcaded entry below and features three sets of segmented arch windows. The remainder of the primary facade is less ornamented. The stuccoed wall surface is divided into six bays along the length by terra cotta piers of classical design. The decorative terra cotta parapet extends the entire length with lighted finials where the piers abut the cornice line. Adjacent to the main entry, the upper story of the first three bays features fenestration and an ornamented cornice. Lighted finials smaller than the pier finials adorn the parapet. Storefronts occupied the first bays along the second level from the northwest corner. The Market Street front has a replicated storefront on the corner and a stairwell from an emergency exit serving the auditorium below.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The interior includes a lobby, auditorium with balcony, projection booth, a shallow stage with proscenium, backstage dressing areas, mechanical rooms, and commercial space. The lobby leads into the back of the auditorium. There is a ramp and stairways to the balcony. The balcony is over the lobby, hanging over a part of the main floor. The other spaces are along the length of the auditorium. Along the auditorium on the second floor are the manager&#39;s office, restroom facilities, waiting or smoking rooms, storage, and the corner commercial spaces.</p><br>
<p>The lobby features recessed lights and a coved ceiling segmented and decorated with plaster swags of greenery. The ramp parallels the back wall and splits to access the balcony from opposite sides about a third of the way forward.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium is entered from the back with two aisle creating three seating areas. The rectangular two story high hall is designed for movies with a shallow stage and wings. Curves are visible throughout with a cove ceiling and curved walls from the proscenium. The classical ornamentation is cast plaster on the walls, ceiling, proscenium, and balcony railing. The proscenium displays the richest plaster relief work consisting of an entablature with classical piers. Two cherubs blowing long trumpets and separated by a lighted torch are perched atop the proscenium. On each side of the proscenium is a screened area, which once held organ pipes. The areas are ornamented with cast plaster grills capped by eagles and flags. Lighting comes from chandeliers suspended above, replicated wall sconces, and indirect lighting along the cornice and beneath the organ grills.</p><br>
<p>Above the main entrance is a round room, which served as the anteroom to the ladies restroom. The upper level was redesigned in 1991 and includes restroom facilities and a small rehearsal hall and the replicated corner storefront.</p><br>
<p>The 1991 rehabilitation updated the technical and mechanical systems, restored the lobby, and applied an interior color scheme similar original. The rear wall of the auditorium below the balcony was redesigned as a curved surface and the projection booth was moved to the balcony. Seating was restored to the 1951 remodeling, rather than the original 1918. Other changes were made to conform with handicap access and public safety.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliographical</h2><br>
<p>Bonney, W. T., History of Pierce County, Pioneer Historical Publishing, 1927.</p><br>
<p>Morgan, Murray, Puget Sound, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The S. T. Elliott House is a Bungalow/Craftsman style house located in Kingman, Arizona. It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The S. T. Elliott House is located at 537 Springs Street in Kingman, Arizona. The home was built in 1917. The home is a Bungalow/Craftsman style. The house was built by J. B. Lammers a contractor from Flagstaff, Arizona. Mr. Elliott came to Arizona in 1891 and he worked for the Babbitt Brothers in Flagstaff. He operated Elliott Stores from 1907 till his retirement in 1935. The Elliott Store was next to Watkins Drugs on Front Street (Andy Devine Avenue) and 4th Street. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The house at 527 Pine Street, Kingman, Arizona, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was built in 1917. The home is of the style of the Bungalow/Craftsman. The house was built with native stone. This home was built for Mr. Elliott&#39;s nephew. The home was considered an upper class. The nephew was very civic minded. During World War II, the home was used as the Jewish Religious Center for the Jewish Personnel of Kingman Army Air Field.</p><br>
<p>It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this, and many others being listed.</p><br>
<p>Saint John&#39;s Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church building in Kingman, Arizona on the National Register of Historic Places. It is significant for its unique architecture. It is no longer used as a church. It is also notable as the location of the 1939 marriage of film actors Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was built at the corner of Spring and Fifth streets in Kingman, Arizona. It is one block away from Route 66. St. John&#39;s is the oldest organized religious group in Kingman and this is its second building. The church was built in 1917, in the Greek Revival style. Construction started on February 28, 1917. The first church service was on May 8, 1889. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The one story building measures 45x95 ft and is constructed of local tufa limestone on a stone foundation with a gable roof. The basement is partially above ground; a wide imposing tone staircase rises from ground level to the first floor. The main entry is recessed behind a front porch supported by six Tuscan columns. The entry has sidelights on both sides and a transom above topped with a pediment. The north side has four sets of three light double-hung windows with transoms, while the south side has individual one-over-one double-hung windows. The building is significant for its architecture which complements the nearby Mohave County Courthouse, which was built two years earlier and of the same material. While built during the Neo-Classical Revival period, it is of the Classic Roman Temple form. It is the best example of such a building in Arizona, which were not common in the timeframe in which it was constructed. The construction date of 1917 is known from the building&#39;s cornerstone.</p><br>
<h2>Gable-Lombard marriage</h2><br>
<p>On March 29, 1939, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard eloped to Kingman and were married in the church while on a break from the filming of Gone With the Wind. The service was conducted by the minister of the church, two strangers were the witnesses, and Gable&#39;s close friend Otto Winkler, an MGM press agent, was the best man.</p><br>
<h2>Present</h2><br>
<p>On a 1984 survey for the Arizona State Historic Property Inventory, the building was listed as original/unaltered and in good/well-maintained condition. At that time, it was still in use as a church.</p><br>
<p>As of 2020, it was being used for a Mohave County Office of the Public Defender.</p><br>
<p>Arthur F. Black House is a historic house in Kingman, Arizona. It was built in 1925 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1919, and a second floor was added in 1933. The house is in the style of Spanish Colonial Revival. Cecil E. Chilton was the first contractor and Mr. Black did the building of the second floor. The house has a native stone wall and an open veranda and balcony. The lumber for the 1933 addition came from an original high school gym.</p><br>
<p>Mr. Black was the mining foreman at the Golconda Mine for about 4 years, a railroad engineer for 3 years, and partner in Kingman Motor Co. (Ford Dealership). He started the Boulder Dam Line, Kingman to Las Vegas line and adding to Phoenix; it handled passengers and freight. He is known as the Father of U. S. Route 93 and helped in creating U. S. Route 66 from the Old Trails Highway. He also formed the first cab company in Kingman, called Kingman Cab Co.</p><br>
<p>The Mohave County Hospital was between Grand View and First Street on Beale Street, in Kingman, Mohave County, western Arizona.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Santa Fe Railway Engineering Department designed the building in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. The hospital was built in 1921–22, and J. B. Lammers of Flagstaff was the contractor. Additional hospital wings were added to the building in the 1940s and in 1962.</p><br>
<p>Mohave County General Hospital was the main hospital in Mohave County until 1970, when it moved to a new location. After that, county departments moved into the vacant building. The last and longest was the Mohave County Sheriffs Office, who had moved from the old court house building into the former hospital.</p><br>
<p>The hospital was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, with the designation number 86001165.</p><br>
<p>However, the hospital was demolished in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Millard House, also known as La Miniatura, is a textile block house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1923 in Pasadena, California. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Wright&#39;s textile block houses</h2><br>
<p>The Millard House was the first of Frank Lloyd Wright&#39;s four "textile block" houses — all built in Los Angeles County in 1923 and 1924. Wright took on the Millard House following his completion of the Hollyhock House in Hollywood and the Imperial Hotel in Japan.</p><br>
<p>By this time, Wright felt typecast as the Prairie house architect and sought to broaden his architectural vision. Wright turned to the concrete block as his new building material. Wright wrote in his autobiography that he chose to build with concrete blocks as they were "the cheapest (and ugliest) thing in the building world," and he wanted to see "what could be done with that gutter-rat." The textile-block houses were named for their richly textured brocade-like concrete walls. The style was an experiment by Wright in modular housing; he sought to develop an inexpensive and simple method of construction that would enable ordinary people to build their own homes with stacked blocks. By adding ornamental designs to mass-produced blocks, Wright hoped the blocks could become a "masonry fabric capable of great variety in architectural beauty." Writer Hugh Hart described Wright&#39;s concept this way: "By unifying decoration and function, exterior and interior, earth and sky — perforated blocks served as skylights — Wright saw his Textile Block Method approach as an utterly modern, and democratic, expression of his organic architecture ideal."</p><br>
<h2>Design of Millard House</h2><br>
<p>Wright was commissioned to build Millard House by Alice Millard, a rare-book dealer for whom Wright had built a house in Highland Park, Illinois in 1906. Seeking to integrate the Millard House with the land, Wright designed the house to cling to the lots steep ravine, nestled it among the trees, and fabricated the houses concrete blocks using sand, gravel and minerals found on the property. By using roughly textured, earth-toned blocks, he sought to blend the house with the color and form of the trees and hillside. While the design was in most ways a departure from Wright&#39;s prior work, it was consistent with his lifelong love of natural materials and his belief that buildings should complement their surroundings. He later said that Millard House "belonged to the ground on which it stood."</p><br>
<p>The blocks were created in wooden molds with patterns on the outside and smooth on the inside. The blocks feature a symmetrical pattern of a cross with a square in each corner. Wright reinforced the blocks using conventional mortar. The project cost $17,000 — 70% more than the $10,000 budget Millard had given to Wright. Some accounts state that the builder walked off the job, "leaving Wright to finish the project himself, out of his own pocket".</p><br>
<p>The 2,400 ft&sup2; house consists of a vertical three-story block. The first floor has the kitchen, servants room and a dining room opening onto a terrace with a reflecting pool. The second floor has the main entrance, guest room, and a two-story living room with a fireplace and balcony. The third floor contained Millards bedroom with a balcony overlooking the living room and outdoor terrace.</p><br>
<p>Like many of Wright&#39;s households, Millard House suffered from leaks during rains. After the house flooded in a storm, Millard wrote a letter to Wright complaining about the inadequate storm drain that resulted in the basement filling entirely with muddy water and the water rising to six inches (152 mm) in the dining room.</p><br>
<p>Millard added a separate studio in 1926, designed by Wright&#39;s son, Lloyd Wright.</p><br>
<h2>Critical response</h2><br>
<p>The initial critical response to Millard House and the textile block structures was not positive. The homes were greeted with "howls of laughter", as Beaux Arts-trained architects were "appalled" to see a common building material used for the facades and interior walls of expensive homes.</p><br>
<p>However, Wright himself took great pride in Millard House. He said of it: "I would rather have built this little house than St. Peters in Rome." Over the years, critical views of Millard House became positive, and it is now considered one of Wrights finest works.</p><br>
<p>In 1965, the Los Angeles Times columnist Art Seidenbaum wrote: "Environmentally, the place is fascinating because it still looks modern in a neighborhood that is gracious but aging. Or, maybe better, the Millard house is of no time and its own place."</p><br>
<p>In 1969, Millard House was ranked as one of the 12 most significant landmarks in the Los Angeles area by a panel of ten distinguished citizens and architecture experts.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, The New York Times noted that the Millard House was known around the world and ranked it among the few buildings in Los Angeles that "have become classic works of the 20th Century."</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The house appears as the Secarus IV home of the Albino, an alien villain in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Blood Oath", which aired on American television on March 27, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The house appears as Arnold Webers family home in the second and third seasons of HBOs science fiction series Westworld.</p><br>
