This renowned street is a three-block stretch of mostly two- and three-story buildings north of Wilshire Boulevard. Boutiques and clothiers, jewelers, antique dealers and art galleries cater to expensive tastes. On the northeast corner of Wilshire an..

Opened in 1996, the West Coast location of New York City's Museum of Television and Radio brings the institution's mission of preserving American broadcasting heritage to the heart of the nation's entertainment capital. Occupying a sleek, glass-and-m..

The pink-stucco, Mission-style main building (1912) and its secluded bungalows are partly concealed by 12 acres of tropical gardens, bestowing an air of privacy on the hotel and the comings and goings of its guests. Accordingly, it has long served as..

This lushly landscaped six-acre estate crowning a hillside behind the Beverly Hills Hotel was a barren grassland when local department store heir Harry Robinson and his wife, Virginia, purchased it in 1911. It was the first residential lot sold in Be..

An elegant, eight-story Spanish Baroque tower crowned with a dome finished in multicolored tiles, the City Hall (1932) sets the tone for a harmonious two-square-block contemporary addition (1990, Charles Moore/A.C. Martin & Assocs.) that arrays polic..

Though not open to the public, this sleekly curving building of white marble, glass and steel (1989, Pei, Cobb, Freed)-headquarters of C.A.A., one of Los Angeles' preeminent talent agencies-offers a glimpse from the street of the monumental Roy Licht..

Descending a terraced slope above Sunset Boulevard, this 18-acre formal garden of Italianate sensibility surrounds Greystone Mansion, a 55-room English Tudor and Jacobean mansion (1928, Gordon B. Kaufmann) of brown-gray stone built by oil millionaire..

A slender, ornate tower and graceful arches evoking the Spanish Colonial Revival style top the former La Cienega Water Treatment Plant (1928); the structure housed a pump system that provided Beverly Hills with a water supply other than the Los Angel..