As you recall, the Los Angeles region has many architectural gems. There Gamble Housebuilt at the beginning of the 20the century in Pasadena for David and Mary Gamble, of the Procter & Gamble company, is “safe for now”wrote the site yesterday on Instagram.
On the other hand, other notable buildings were destroyed by the flames of the Palisades Fire, between Santa Monica and Malibu. As the California Parks Department has indicated, this is particularly the case for Will Rogers’ old ranchwhich had become public property after the deaths of the actor and his wife, as well as the Topanga Ranch Motela thirty-unit complex built by tycoon William Randolph Hearst in 1929.
The New York Times also cites the destruction of the Keeler Housea vast house of wood and concrete built in 1991 by Ray Kappe, an architect from Los Angeles, as well as that of the Bridges Housebuilt in 1974 by architect Robert Bridges.
-As for the Villa Gettya museum founded in 1974 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood by businessman J. Paul Getty, “While trees and vegetation burned, Getty structures were unaffected and fortunately staff and collections are safe”said Katherine E. Fleming, head of the J. Paul Getty Trust, on January 8.
According to the Los Angeles Timeson Wednesday at noon, theEames Housean iconic home built in 1949 and listed as a National Historic Landmark, remained untouched by the Palisades Fire.
