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Old Posted Apr 2, 2015, 5:01 PM
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Museum Row / Churrigueresque

Thanks HossC for the background on 6022 Wilshire Boulevard. Curbed LA reports that that end of the block is coming down for the new Purple Line Station. The Architecture + Design Museum is moving to the Arts District.

Reports here and here


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Originally Posted by Tourmaline View Post
1930 - 3607 - 3601 West 3rd Street (Still there - without the gingerbread)



The Churrigueresque Revival style was very popular in Southern California and still graces some of our best-loved buildings (Chapman Market, Beverly Hills City Hall, etc)

It was Irving Gill's refusal to work in this style re San Diego's 1915-1916 Panama-California Exhibition which caused his break with Bertram G. Goodhue and Elmer Gray. Gill disliked copying decorative historic styles and endeavored to develop a new, local architecture. However, the public enthusiastically embraced Churrigueresque Revival as expressed in San Diego. It remained popular through to the 1930s when Streamline took over.

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