{"nrhp_refnum":"95000581","name":"Los Angeles Nurses' Club","other_names":["Los Angeles Nurses' Club and Apartments"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"245 S. Lucas Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.06037280900006,"lon":-118.20670822999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story, U-shaped brick building at 245 South Lucas Avenue in Los Angeles, California, built between 1921 and 1923 as a residence and headquarters for the Los Angeles Nurses' Club. Original plans credit architect John Frauenfelder.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building met a need for safe, economical and respectable housing for women nurses while nursing and attitudes toward working women living independently were changing sharply. It is also presented as a rare permanent nurses' residence, with no similar permanent residence found in the nursing journals reviewed. Significance is under Criterion A in social history.","narrative":"Built between 1921 and 1923 at the corner of Lucas Avenue and Miramar Street in Los Angeles, this four-story brick building was designed by John Frauenfelder as both a residence and headquarters for the Los Angeles Nurses' Club. Its U-shaped plan shelters a garden courtyard, and its street facades use raked veneer brick with recessed panels and cast stone trim. Inside were a columned lobby, a gymnasium and auditorium, a living room with a fireplace, a large basement kitchen and a variety of apartments. The nurses raised money through bake sales, raffles and donations from doctors and hospitals. The building mattered because nursing was changing from private-duty work in homes to hospital employment, and society's view of working women living on their own was shifting. It offered safe, economical and respectable housing, much as religious orders' mother houses did. Its documented period of significance runs from 1923 to 1944, and it remains an apartment building.","period_of_significance":"1923-1944","architect_builder":"Frauenfelder, John","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still used as multiple dwellings (apartments). Seismic strengthening was carried out from 1989 to 1991, and the appearance has changed little since repairs after the 1933 earthquake.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.782939-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/95000581.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000581/0da2e55d76-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000581/0da2e55d76-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Los_Angeles_Nurses%27_Club.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Los_Angeles_Nurses%27_Club.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859285","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Nurses%27_Club","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683184"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/los-angeles-nurses-club-95000581/"}