Ebell of Los Angeles Building
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Ebell of Los Angeles occupies a Renaissance Revival campus at 4400 Wilshire Boulevard, built for the women's club founded in 1894 and operating from the site since 1927. The campus includes classrooms and meeting rooms alongside the 1,238-seat Wilshire Ebell Theatre, and the organization continues to support the community through arts, learning, and service.
the building
The Wilshire Ebell Theatre. The 1,238-seat theatre has hosted musical performances and lectures since 1927, including Amelia Earhart's last public appearance before her 1937 around-the-world flight, and the performance where a young Judy Garland, then billed as Baby Frances Gumm, was discovered in the 1930s.
the style
The Ebell's campus is built in the Renaissance Revival style, giving the women's club a formal civic presence on Wilshire Boulevard befitting its role as a hub for lectures, performances, and community organizing since the 1920s.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
The Ebell of Los Angeles Building is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #250 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, designated on August 25, 1982, recognizing its long service as a women-led cultural and educational institution.
nearby
- Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre
- Holmes-Shannon House
- E. Clem Wilson Building
- 40 N. Western Ave.
- Security-First National Bank
- Wilshire Branch