This being Los Angeles, the homes in West Adams have doubled for neighborhoods across the U.S. This Frank Tyler in Victoria Park became not just the setting for the horror film Insidious but featured prominently in its marketing campaign.
No work about LA is complete without describing/showing the impact of the freeway 'system'. Here's a shot that will be included in the iPad book, my local offramp.
You see this right here is why I haven't released Untold LA yet. Originally I had planned to only shoot for two months. Two months! But everyday I keep stumbling over finds like this.
Now admittedly this photo is one of the first ones I took for Untold LA but I'm tellin' ya I see stuff like this every week - it's an embarrassment of riches over here! As for the photo above, it's from the Henry Jensen home in Harvard Heights. Jensen built some of the earliest move theatres here in LA and his theatrical influence is palpable throughout the home.
A rare appearance of Modernism here at Untold LA; in Victoria Park.
Taken this weekend, another view of the famed Stimson, previously seen here. If you look closely you can see someone consulting one of the Angel Walk stanchions installed by the Figueroa Corridor Partnership.
And from the side, shot in December of 2012.
Here's a Frank Tyler apartment building in Western Heights. Rare to find an apartment building by him, (instead of one of his many single family homes.)
Another beautiful home in Victoria Park.
Here we are at the the former Second Church of Christ Scientist, (now home to the Art of Living Foundation), on Adams Boulevard. We're looking straight up at the inside of the 1,400 ton copper dome.
You can see the outside in a previous posting here.
