Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church with fundraising banners, Los Angeles, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church with fundraising banners, Los Angeles, 1928
- Architect
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Allison, David Clark, 1881-1962
Allison, James Edward, 1870-1955 - Date Created
- May 1925
- Date
- 1925-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Exterior view of the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church at Plymouth and Wilshire Boulevards, just after the exterior scaffolding came down. Signs on the church advertised a fundraising effort to acquire donations to complete the construction project: "Save The Tower! $25,000 will do it. Will You Give It?" and "$50,000 Will Save This Church. Have You Given Your Bit for Religion? This Church belongs to Everybody" and "Save The Church In May, $50,000 Needed..." The edifice is now the home of the Wilshire United Methodist Church. The building was designed by the architectural firm Allison and Allison Architects.
Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church was designed by the architectural firm Allison and Allison Architects. It is located at 4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, and is the home of the Wilshire United Methodist Church (10/2012).
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
exterior views - Names
- Wilshire United Methodist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.06177469350010
- Latitude
- -118.32354784011800
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Romanesque revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Churches--California--Guasti
Religion
Culture
Historic buildings--California--Los Angeles
Congregational churches--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_5876
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cw07x
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .