Lost Landmarks

Few people outside of the San Fernando Valley came to Northridge Fashion Center to shop.

Few outside of South Central prayed at Southern Missionary Baptist Church and unless you lived on the Westside, you probably hardly took notice of Saint John’s Hospital.

But these structures--along with dozens of others severely damaged in the earthquake and aftershocks--were vital parts of their neighborhoods. Whether schools, office buildings, art deco apartment houses, coffee shops, churches, medical facilities or malls; their absence is being felt.

Here is a list of some of the more prominent neighborhood landmarks that have been destroyed or will have to undergo significant renovation.

WEST VALLEY

Agoura Hills Reyes Adobe

Calabasas Leonis Adobe

Canoga Park Topanga Plaza Robinsons-May and Broadway

Chatsworth Lawrence Junior High School

Granada Hills Frost Junior High School Kaiser Permanente clinic and office building Kennedy High School Van Gogh Street Elementary School

Northridge Cal State Northridge; damaged buildings include libraries, science and fine arts facilities. Northridge Fashion Center Northridge Junior High School Northridge Meadows Apartments Wherehouse Records

San Fernando San Fernando Elementary School

Woodland Hills China Garden restaurant El Camino Real High School

EAST VALLEY

Glendale Civic Center Parking Structure

San Fernando County Courthouse Lopez Adobe

Sherman Oaks Sherman Oaks Fashion Square

Studio City Art’s Delicatessen

Sylmar Tahitian Mobile park in Sylmar. 64 mobile homes destroyed.

SANTA CLARITA

Heritage Junction Mitchell Adobe Schoolhouse Pardee house

Mentryville home (1893) Piru mansion West Greenbrier mobile home park William S. Hart mansion

VENTURA COUNTY

Fillmore Business District has 33 red-tagged buildings. Fillmore Hotel Fillmore Theater

Moorpark Moorpark College library and gymnasium

Simi Valley

Church of Nazarene Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Erringer Road) Maier House (1911) Santa Susana Railroad Depot (1903) Simi Valley Community Church Simi Valley High School Walnut/Tapo Street Church

Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks Main Library

WESTSIDE

Redondo Beach King Harbor Marina

Santa Monica Champagne Towers Charmont, El Cortez, Sea Castle and Sovereign apartments First Christian Church Mayfair Theater Saint John’s Hospital Saint Monica’s Church (1925)

West L.A. Barrington Building Kaiser Permanente parking structure

Westwood Royce Hall at UCLA

HOLLYWOOD

Brown Derby building Egyptian Theater Hollyhock House (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright)

SOUTH LOS ANGELES

Bethany Baptist Church Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Theatre Messiah Baptist Church South Los Angeles Church of the Advent Episcopal Southern Missionary Baptist Church West Adams historical sites, including Ecung-Ibbetson and Ezra Stimson homes