PCAD - Janss Investment Company Building, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA

AKA: The Dome, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA; EuroChow, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA

1099 Westwood Boulevard
Westwood, Los Angeles, CA 90024-2902

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Westwood Boulevard and Broxton Avenue;

This landmark building in Westwood Village, originally housed the Janss Investment Company, the developers of the entire Westwood Village area; the building was distinguished by its colorful terra cotta dome, ornamented in a Moorish Zigzag pattern; the dome, like the two towers of nearby movie theatres, beckoned to drivers along Wilshire Boulevard in the early automobile age; the architects, Allison and Allison, were early designers of the many of the first buildings at UCLA, located just north on Westwood Boulevard. The dome also located the major three-way intersection of Westwood Boulevard, Kinross Avenue and Broxton Avenue.

PCAD id: 4022

Publications

"Janss Company plans", Architect & Engineer, 30, 31, 33, 8/1930. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 106, 1994. "New home to be occupied", Los Angeles Times, part V: 2, 4/12/1931. "Reality office to be opened", Los Angeles Times, 5, 01/06/1929. "Janss concern pioneer firm", Los Angeles Times, 6, 04/12/1925. "Janss Building note", Los Angeles Times, 9, 03/17/1939. "Westwood improvement opens soon", Los Angeles Times, 8, 09/29/1929.

Janss Investment Company Building, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA (1929)

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