{"nrhp_refnum":"99000370","name":"Judson Studios","other_names":["Los Angeles College of Fine Arts of USC"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 S. Avenue Sixty-Six","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.11357196600005,"lon":-118.17948995699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-03-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-shaped Shingle Style building at 200 S. Avenue Sixty-Six in the Garvanza area of Los Angeles, built about 1901 as the USC College of Fine Arts and rebuilt in 1911 by architects Train & Williams after a fire.","why_significant":"It housed the first college of art in the Los Angeles area and is linked to founder and dean William Lees Judson (Criteria A and B). Since 1920 it has been home to the Judson Studios, a leading stained glass studio. Its 1911 design is a locally unique institutional example of Arts and Crafts architecture with Shingle Style elements (Criterion C).","narrative":"Set near the Arroyo Seco in Garvanza, this two-story Los Angeles building began around 1901 as the College of Fine Arts of the University of Southern California, designed by its dean, William Lees Judson. After a fire in December 1910, it was rebuilt in 1911 on the original foundations by architects Train & Williams. Its L-shaped plan combines Arroyo stone, concrete block and painted wood shingles, with concrete and terra cotta ornament made by students. Inside are dormitory rooms, a skylit gallery and large studios. The building was the first art college in the Los Angeles area and a center of the Arroyo culture artistic community, with Judson as its leading visual artist. In 1920 the Judson family stained glass firm moved in, and it has operated there ever since, producing windows for many California churches and other buildings. The property retains high integrity and is a rare local institutional example of Arts and Crafts design.","period_of_significance":"Criterion A 1911-1940; Criterion B 1911-1928; Criterion C 1911","architect_builder":"Train and Williams, architects","architectural_style":"Shingle Style; other: Arts and Crafts","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a stained glass studio, operated continuously by the Judson family since 1920; the building appears substantially as rebuilt in 1911.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.680453-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/99000370.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000370/bf202f7ce4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000370/bf202f7ce4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Judson_Studios,_Los_Angeles.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:Judson_Studios,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859238","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judson_Studios","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14682539"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/judson-studios-99000370/"}