- Los Angeles Conservancy
The Los Angeles Conservancy is an
historic preservation organization inLos Angeles, California . It works to document, rescue and revitalizehistoric building s, places and neighborhoods in the city. The Conservancy is the largest membership based historic preservation organization in the country. The group was formed in 1978 to preserveLos Angeles Central Library , which was threatened with demolition. The organization has over 7000 members and 400 volunteers. There is a volunteer Modern Committee, dedicated to the preservation ofpostwar architecture as well as a historic theaters committee that produces the annual "Last Remaining Seats" film series of classic films in the historicmovie palaces indowntown Los Angeles . The executive director since 1992 has been Linda Dishman. The Conservancy hosts an annual preservation awards ceremony at theMillenium Biltmore Hotel and works closely with the business, political and development communities to find preservation solutions for historic buildings.Some of the Conservancy's biggest success stories have included
Bullocks Wilshire , theCathedral of Saint Vibiana , theWiltern Theater and theoldest operating McDonald's inDowney , CAIn 2006, the L.A. Conservancy won the
American Planning Association 's Daniel Burnham award, its most prestigious National Planning award. [http://planning.org/newsreleases/2006/ftp01120604.htm]External links
* [http://www.laconservancy.org/ LA Conservancy Official Website]
* [http://modcom.org// Modern Committee]
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