Burning at Both Ends: Surviving a Week in Wildfire-Torn Los Angeles
We’d all assumed the Big One would be an earthquake,” writes Joy Press—“never imagined that Mother Nature might have a different apocalypse scripted for this city.” ...
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After the Eaton Fire, these Altadena residents return — with despair and hope — to homes in ruins
They all now wonder if the Altadena they knew can be ... Riding away, the couple passed historic Craftsman homes, ’50s bungalows and a Victorian house on the corner – all up in flames.
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The Unfathomable Loss of Artistic Heritage in Altadena
“Their dream was to build a house, and Altadena was the place they could ... It was founded by the late artist and craftsman Jirayr Zorthian, who was a boy when his family fled the Armenian ...
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Historic Landmarks Vanish: 2025 California Fires Destroy Cultural Heritage
Some more than once. Condos were set the replace the 1910 Craftsman-style Parsons House when architect Tim Anderson moved it to Altadena in several pieces more than 40 years ago. “The house ...
Updates: The architecturally significant houses destroyed in L.A.’s fires
Historic landmarks by the likes of Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey and a noted Midcentury retreat by architect Ray Kappe have been lost. Here's our residential architecture list, to be updated regularly.