Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home
- Year
- 1913
- Style
- Chateauesque
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home is a four-story, 76,000-square-foot Châteauesque brick building that former U.S. Senator and copper magnate William A. Clark built in 1913 as a memorial to his mother. Clark announced the gift in 1910 after buying a 350-by-180-foot lot atop Crown Hill, just west of downtown, and dedicated the building as a YWCA residence for young working women.
the building
From YWCA to housing. The YWCA operated the home from 1913 until 1987, when damage from the Whittier Narrows earthquake forced its closure; it reopened in 1995 as housing for low-income single workers.
the style
Clark's home was built in a turreted "French Revival Chateauesque" style, the romantic French chateau vocabulary usually reserved for grand private mansions, applied here to a charitable residence instead.
More on Chateauesquesignificance
The building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Felipe De Neve Branch
- Young's Market Company Building
- Mayfair Hotel
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- Westin Bonaventure Hotel
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