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PRESERVATION ISSUES The Los Angeles Conservancy works on a vast range of preservation issues throughout Los Angeles County. Some are proactive, others are in response to specific threats to historic resources, but all of our advocacy efforts share a common goal: to protect and revitalize the significant architectural and cultural resources of greater Los Angeles. This section includes a sampling of our current and past preservation issues. If you'd like information about an issue not listed here, please contact our advocacy staff at 213-430-4217. If you know of a historic resource that is threatened with demolition or excessive alteration, please let us know. You can e-mail info@laconservancy.org or call 213-623-2489. On occasion (rarely - typically once or twice a year), the Conservancy asks for help from supporters on issues (letter-writing, etc.). If you would like to know about these urgent issues and how you can help, join the Conservancy's Preservation Action Alert Network. You'll also receive our regular E-News every other month with general updates on issues and events. If you want to join ONLY the Action Alert Network, e-mail us and we'll add you to that list separately, so that you don't also receive E-News. (You can unsubscribe from either list at any time) NEW Columbia Savings Building Preservation Ordinance Changes Century Plaza Hotel CURRENT PRESERVATION ISSUES Citywide Historic Resources Survey Commonwealth Savings & Loan Building Hall of Justice West Los Angeles Regional Branch Library PAST PRESERVATION ISSUES Ambassador Hotel (site of) City Council District 5 Transcript- Election 2009 |
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Ambassador Hotel (site of) Designed by Myron Hunt with later alterations by Paul R. Williams, the Ambassador Hotel was one of Los Angeles' defining historic sites and a main catalyst for the development of Wilshire Boulevard. Built on a former dairy farm miles from downtown, the 24-acre resort hotel was a hit from its opening on New Year's Day 1921. It quickly became a tourist attraction, a fashionable winter residence for East Coast society, and a prominent social center. The Ambassador was home to the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, L.A.'s premier night spot for decades; host to six Academy Award ceremonies and to every U.S. President from Herbert Hoover to Richard Nixon; and the site of the tragic assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. The hotel closed in 1989. After a fierce preservation battle spanning two decades, the building was demolished by the Los Angeles Unified School District in 2006. |
