Few people realize that the Beaux Arts landed in the Southern California desert a long time ago.  Fewer have seen how it has endured since then.  The Clark Library is a kind of revelation.

R.D. Farquhar's diminutive masterpiece pushes every boundary that could possibly be applied.  Here is the baroque from Germany, France, Italy, and England, with a surfeit of British classicism and American picturesque.

While San Francisco was hedonistically monumental, LA was seriously domestic.  Who knew?

There is a great deal more in Los Angeles than you might imagine.

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