Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home
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Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home is a four-story, 76,000-square-foot (7,100 m2) "French Revival Chateauesque"[4] brick structure in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles near downtown. It was built in 1913 as a YWCA home for young working women.
Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home | |
Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home | |
Location | 306–336 S. Loma Dr.,[1] Los Angeles, California |
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Coordinates | 34°3′36″N 118°15′51″W |
Built | 1912 |
Architect | Benton, Arthur Burnett; Whyte, George H. |
Architectural style | Châteauesque, Late 19th and 20th Century Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 95001152[2] |
LAHCM No. | 158 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | October 5, 1995 |
Designated LAHCM | 1976-07-07[3] |
The house was built by William A. Clark (1839–1925), the copper magnate after whom Clark County, Nevada, was named, as a memorial to his mother Mary Andrews Clark[5] (1814–1904). The home was operated by the YWCA from 1913 to 1987, when it was closed as a result of damage sustained in the Whittier Narrows earthquake. The building reopened in 1995 as housing for low income single workers. The building has been designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.