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Old Posted Mar 17, 2017, 10:13 PM
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And speaking of double domes, for some reason I decided to check on Elsie McDonald's address, 465 N. Western Ave.


Has this one come up before? What a gem (check out those curved custom tiles). It immediately reminded me of the Janss Dome in Westwood, only on a much smaller scale:

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just above sunset

Turns out it was built as a Janss office in 1928, the year before the Westwood building. Percy Parke Lewis did the N Western Avenue office, and, although he did a ton of buildings and homes in Westwood (Fox Village Theater, Chateau Colline et al.), Allison and Allison is responsible for the larger Janss dome.

It's a Buddhist Temple now, but it formerly did duty as Czech-American social hall.



I hope LA Conservancy, or someone, is keeping an eye on it.

We've actually visited this structure before, but the negatives seem to have gone missing. http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=17843


Also known as Sokol Hall. Maplewood and Western Ave.
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