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Title: Westlake School for Girls, view 1
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
View of the girl's school can be seen through the brick arches leading to the main building.; Founded by Jessica Smith Vance and Frederica de Laguna as a small college preparatory school in 1904, it was initially located opposite of Westlake Park. In 1917, the school moved to Westmoreland Avenue in the Wilshire district and then to the location at 700 N. Faring Road.; Originally constructed in 1928 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, the dormitory and complete campus were designed by Arthur Kelly and his associate, Joe Estep. The design included exterior stucco walls, tiled roofs, and arches as decorative motifs, towers, corbel tables, and wrought-iron balconies. The demolition of much of the campus followed the 1971 Sylmar earthquake.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00025994
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
N-002-137.1 8x10; L.A.-Schools-Westlake School for Girls.
CARL0000030905
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/95005
Subject: Westlake School for Girls (Los Angeles, Calif.)
School buildings--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences
Girls' schools--California--Los Angeles
Preparatory schools--California--Los Angeles
Private schools--California--Los Angeles
Single-sex schools--California--Los Angeles
Vance, Jessica Smith
Laguna, Frederica de
Kelly, Arthur Rolland
Estep, Joe

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