Holmby Hall, Clock tower at Westwood Village, Los Angeles, United States.
Holmby Hall is a 1929 landmark in Westwood Village: a row of six Spanish Colonial Revival storefronts with a white clock tower about 110 feet tall on the corner of Weyburn Avenue. The tower rises in stacked sections, from a square shaft with decorative openwork to a balustrade, an octagonal tier with two clock faces, and a green pinnacle.
Holmby Hall was built in 1929 as the first shop building in Westwood Village, following the Mediterranean theme set by the Janss brothers. It was designed by Gordon Kaufmann with John and Donald Parkinson. The building served as the first dormitory for female students at the adjacent University of California, Los Angeles. Around 2003, a fire damaged its upper stories.
The building was long connected to university life, originally housing female UCLA students in its residential spaces. This educational link shaped the area's identity and continues to draw students who gather around the tower.
The tower sits at the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Weyburn Avenue, right in the heart of Westwood Village and easy to locate. The surrounding area has many shops and restaurants, making it worthwhile to explore the plaza during a visit.
Unlike most buildings in Westwood Village that show Mediterranean influences, this tower combines English-Norman and Classical architectural elements. This unexpected stylistic blend gives the plaza its own visual identity.
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