Felipe De Neve Branch
- Architect
- Austin Cruver Whittlesey
- Style
- Mediterranean Vernacular
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Felipe de Neve Branch Library opened in Lafayette Park in 1929, timed to Felipe de Neve Day and the 148th anniversary of the founding of Los Angeles. Architect Austin Whittlesey designed the one-story building in a Mediterranean Revival-Classical Revival style, naming it for the Spanish governor who oversaw the city's founding.
the building
Tile and brick facade. The street elevation is a red-tile-roofed brick facade with symmetrically arranged window groupings and black-and-white tile decorations laid out in diamonds and crosses, with the city seal rendered in mosaic tile above the front doors.
the style
Whittlesey's Mediterranean Revival-Classical Revival design pairs a civic building's formal symmetry with the tilework and brick detailing typical of the style, fitting for a library named after LA's founding-era Spanish governor.
More on Mediterranean Vernacularsignificance
The library was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in January 1984, and in 1987 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group nomination covering several Los Angeles library branches.
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