Souplantation-style restaurant opens in Southern California

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• Historic Plantations Everyone In Louisiana Must Visit
• Move to Heritage Square Museum
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• Fore! Perfect your swing at these 9 pleasant L.A. public golf courses
• Souplantation-style restaurant opens in Southern California
• Farm houses for sale in California
• Hollyhock House added to World Heritage List

When Murchison died in 1904, his son-in-law James Sprunt, of the Sprunt cotton concern, bought the estate. Sprunt built a small chapel for his wife, Luola, on the Orton grounds in 1915 and the chapel is still there today. The Sprunt family also opened up the property to the public for tours in the early 20th century. The house was sold many times and was moved from 4501 to 4425 North Pasadena Avenue (now Figueroa Street) before being purchased by James G. Hale in 1906.

Historic Plantations Everyone In Louisiana Must Visit

During the rapid urban expansion of the 1960s, Victorian buildings in Los Angeles were being demolished at an alarming rate. The Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument program, established in 1961, could evaluate properties and list-register them, but not protect them. In 1969, at the request of the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission, a group of concerned citizens established the Cultural Heritage Foundation to counteract this destruction. The Foundation organized Heritage Square as a last-chance haven for architecturally and historically significant buildings to be moved to, which otherwise would have been demolished at their original locations. Most enslaved people labored in agricultural production, and planter was a term commonly used to describe a farmer with many enslaved humans.

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It remained in the Hale Family until it was acquired by the museum in 1970, as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No. 40). The exterior colors of Hale House were reproduced from chips of the original colors found on the house during restoration. The interior has been restored to represent the rooms as they may have appeared in 1899.

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In the early 1900s, it was a rural wonderland, with lush gardens and elegant mansions. The most famous of all the estates that dotted the Boulevard was that of the painter Paul de Longpre. In 1901, the noted artist—lured to Hollywood by its founder Daeida Wilcox—built a Mission Revival mansion on three acres of land. The Pacific Electric stopped right in front of the estate, and you could buy prints of popular de Longpre paintings and postcards of the property in the main house.

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Walk around most neighborhoods, and you’ll find a mix of Midcentury Modern, Streamline Moderne, Spanish Revival and Tudor architecture standing side by side. One prime example is the 1893 Farmers and Merchants Bank, a classical revival temple in Downtown LA designed by Morgan and Walls, which gave one the sense that the institution had been around much longer than 1871. One man who seems to have realized the transformative power of a neoclassical home was John Elridge Sterns.

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On Christmas Day 1928, Thomson died in Marion's arms at their home, a victim of misdiagnosed tetanus. In 1997, the property was bought by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft. The most recent teardown on our list, this 1937 Cheviot Hills house was the home of author Ray Bradbury for more than 50 years. In January 2015, starchitect Thom Mayne began deconstruction of the house, much to the chagrin of Bradbury fans and local preservationists.

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Major planters held many more, especially in the Deep South as it developed.[1] The majority of slaveholders held 10 or fewer enslaved people, often to labor domestically. By the late 18th century, most planters in the Upper South had switched from exclusive tobacco cultivation to mixed-crop production, both because tobacco had exhausted the soil and because of changing markets. The shift away from tobacco meant they had slaves in excess of the number needed for labor, and they began to sell them in the internal slave trade. Heritage Square Museum is a living history and open-air architecture museum located beside the Arroyo Seco Parkway in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the southern Arroyo Seco area. The living history museum shows the story of development in Southern California through historical architectural examples. Self-important film moguls also increasingly turned to neoclassical styles for their personal palaces.

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Hollyhock House added to World Heritage List

Scott Fitzgerald, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, John Barrymore, Dorothy Parker, and Robert Benchley. One of the restaurant’s co-owners said on social media that they’ve been quite busy with customers since opening. The company began auctioning off restaurant items online such as tables, chairs, ovens, silverware, soda machines and even their famous trays to be repurposed for use in other venues. “The regulations are understandable, but unfortunately, it makes it very difficult to reopen,” said John Haywood, chief executive of Garden Fresh, at the time. Fans of the buffet chain were heartbroken when parent company Garden Fresh Restaurants announced it would close all 97 restaurants, including 44 in California, on May 8, 2020. The seating appeared to be similar to Souplantation with an open-concept dining room featuring a bright interior and plenty of booth and table options.

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The history of Orton predates that of Wilmington, which was founded in 1739. Since then, dozens of film and televison productions have shot at Orton, including "Dawson's Creek," "One Tree Hill," "A Walk To Remember," "Crimes of the Heart" and "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." When looking for a Southern plantation on which to film the 1983 film version of Stephen King's novel "Firestarter," producer Frank Capra Jr. saw a photo of Orton in a magazine. He and fellow producer Dino De Laurentiis decided to film in Wilmington because of it, and a couple of years later De Laurentiis started a film studio here that remains active. Somewhat famously, if not for the Orton Plantation house, which sits off N.C. 133 between Wilmington and Southport, Southeastern North Carolina might not have a film industry.

Like the Sterns home, Sunshine Hall was also used in films, standing in for a Mississippi plantation on one occasion. Behind his architectural preferences was a belief that that white Americans were the ideological descendants of “white” Romans and Greeks. Josef von Sternberg, famed director of The Blue Angel and Morocco, hired legendary architect Richard Neutra to design this aluminum-clad Modernist masterpiece in the early 1930s.

During the '30s and '40s the gardens were sold to developers, and in 1952 Ivy Wall itself was torn down. Its citizens saw no irony in demanding that American architects and landscape designers design public buildings increasingly evocative of the military and cultural might of imperial Rome, rather than the simplicity and probity of the earlier Republic. They overlooked the authoritarianism implicit in the style in their desire for civic monumentality.

Weber’s home would eventually be purchased by Conrad Hilton, one of America’s self-made capitalist kings, who renamed it Casa Encantada. Its lines sweep in regal beauty and with them carry a classical motif into the interior through columns of Doric and Ionic simplicity,” Conrad Hilton himself wrote in the self-published House of Hilton, Casa Encantada. It was extravagantly American, a perfect combination of East Coast stolidity and West Coast dramatics. During Bunker Hill's decline it was used by film companies and served as a boarding house for early silent film luminaries, including Hal Roach and Harold Lloyd. From the lush rural estates of early Angeleno pioneers to the midcentury masterpieces of Hollywood royalty, many architectural treasures have been torn down in the name of commerce, greed, and progress.

It appears that longtime fans really missed their favorite soup and salad buffet restaurant, as a line sprawled from Soup ‘n Fresh’s entrance and into the parking lot when the restaurant opened on February 28. The restaurant is currently in soft opening mode until its April 2 grand opening. Of the over 425 homes, commercial buildings and other works Frank Lloyd Wright has designed, residences are located in at least 38 states (including Hawaii). A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.

This 1886 Victorian mansion was built by Margaret E. Crocker, an early civic leader in California. Costing over $1 million in today's money, the John Hall-designed mansion towered over the rest of elegant Bunker Hill. In 1891, Crocker turned the little-used residence into a high-end boarding house, boasting a large porch and a healthful location. In 1908, the crumbling mansion was razed by the club, and a concrete building was constructed in its place. Hollywood Boulevard was a tourist trap long before its grimy, urban incarnation.

Appointed Executive Chef of The Plantation House in February 2021, Chef Jared prides himself on presenting the highest quality product, whether it be for an intimate dinner for 2 or a 300 Guest wedding. The Plantation House Culinary Team sources the freshest ingredients from local suppliers, including Chimo Maui Fish, Surfing Goat Dairy and Hua Momona Farms located just up the hill. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Highland Theatre closed permanently on February 29.

Designed by architect-to the-stars John Byers, the house was filled with a priceless art collection. The five-acre estate, meanwhile, featured spectacular landscaping—a rock garden, turf tennis court, waterfall, and a pool in the shape of a lake (complete with a "boathouse" and dock). The mansion was later home to colorful socialite "Bubbles" Schinasi, producer William Jacobs, and "Rumba King" Xavier Cugat.