LOS ANGELES : Awards to Be Presented for Restoration of Landmarks
The restorations of an Art Deco theater, a turn-of-the-century power station for trolleys and two landmark mansions are being honored today with historic preservation awards from the city of Los Angeles.
A City Hall ceremony is to honor the revitalization of the 1930 Wiltern Theatre on Wilshire Boulevard as a performing arts center; the Ivy Substation, a Venice Boulevard utility building from 1907 that is being converted into a community center; the Wells-Halliday Mansion on West Adams Boulevard, a 1901 Dutch Colonial that has been made into an AIDS hospice, and La Casa de las Campanas, a 37-room private mansion in Hancock Park that has been restored to all its 1928 Spanish Colonial Revival details, including a three-story clock tower.
Also receiving awards are preservationists David Cameron, who is chairman of the Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation and president of the Electric Railway Historical Assn. of Southern California, and Thomas Morales, organizer of the Angelino Heights historic district and the restoration of Victorian homes on Carroll Avenue near Echo Park.
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