Miracle Mile, Los Angeles

Wilshire Tower is a nine-story tower at 5514 Wilshire Boulevard on the Miracle Mile in the city of Los Angeles. It was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, who was also the architect of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, the North Rim lodge at the Grand Canyon, and the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. The style of the building combines two Art Deco variations: Zigzag Moderne and Streamline Moderne. It was the earliest significant structure in the neighborhood and helped the founder of Miracle Mile, A. W. Ross, bring more stores and offices to the area. The Los Angeles Conservancy describes the building as"an eight-story Zigzag Moderne rectangle of offices that vaulted skyward from a wide Streamline Moderne base, a striking and optimistic structure that helped set the architectural standard for Wilshire Boulevard. The lobby featured fourteen-karat gold ceiling detailing; the sidewalk display windows were trimmed in rich black and red granite. Desmond's and Silverwoods department stores based in Downtown Los Angeles, opened branch stores in each of the respective the ground floor wings. Much of the tower space was rented by doctors and dentists for offices. Desmond's branch, at the time of opening of this branch in March 1929, was the largest men's clothing store in the Los Angeles downtown.

ACE Gallery is an internationally recognized art gallery specializing in contemporary art. ACE Gallery Los Angeles is located in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles a few blocks east of Museum Row.

The El Rey Theatre is a live music venue in the Miracle Mile area of the Mid-Wilshire region in Los Angeles, California. This art deco building was designed by Clifford A. Balch (who designed over twenty classic art deco movie theatres around Southern California). Much of the theatre, including the lobby, still retains its art deco roots, admired for its Zigzag and Streamline Moderne design.

Yeshiva Gedolah of Los Angeles (YGLA), also known in English as Michael Diller High School, is a Haredi Jewish high school located in the Fairfax District, Los Angeles. It was established in 1978.The current Dean and Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Eliezer Gross. The executive director and Administrator is Rabbi Yossi Gross, one of the Rosh Yeshiva's sons; the school's Secular Studies Principal is Rabbi Shmuel Baruch Manne. The school also operates a Beis Medrash Program for two years, starting in 12th grade (when most students stop taking secular classes) and going on for a year afterwards, led by Rabbi Aron Tzvi Gross and Rabbi Aron Gettinger.With one of its founding members (Rabbi Dovid Grossman) being a graduate of Beis Medrash Govoha (BMG) and YGLA sending many of its graduates to BMG, the hashkafa—or theological leaning—of the Yeshiva is very much aligned with the Litvish stream of Haredi Judaism. YGLA is best known within the wider Haredi, Yeshivish community for emphasizing its intense Talmud program, with mandatory morning, afternoon, and night seders (the first two being classes and the last one chavrusa learning).While its secular studies program is very sparse and normally doesn't meet California's requirements for a high school diploma, which is commonplace for Haredi high schools that overwhelmingly focus on Talmud study, students can opt to take extra classes in order to receive a diploma. YGLA's website claims that "our students exceed the national average for their SAT testing results, and several have become National Merit Finalists." Most of their students do not take the SAT since it is quite rare for a student to go to college. YGLA's students are known in the Fairfax/La Brea area for enthusiastically eliciting donations on Purim, and the school made local news because of a carpenters' union protest about the contractor YGLA was using to build a new building.Donald Sterling donated $50,000 to YGLA in 2010 and as a result the school put up a sign saying "Donald T. Sterling Pavilion" on its building. During the scandal after private recordings of Sterling making racist comments were made public, YGLA covered up the sign.

The Dominguez–Wilshire Building is located at 5410 Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, an Art Deco landmark. The property was named after its developers, the Dominguez family, the heirs to the first land grant given in California by King Carlos III of Spain. The project architects were Morgan, Walls & Clements.

The La Brea Theatre, also known as Chotiner's La Brea, Fox La Brea, Art La Brea and Toho La Brea was a single-screen movie theater in Los Angeles, California at 857 S. La Brea Avenue. The theatre was notable for being one of the few movie theatres showing Japanese films in the United States after World War II. It was built in the 1920s and had 1,200 seats at opening, and 900 seats after a renovation.The theatre was built initially as part of the "Chotiner's" movie chain. It became part of the Fox theatre chain. It closed in 1954, and re-opened in 1960 as the Art La Brea after a US$70,000 renovation. The 1960 renovation reduced its seating to 640 seats. Later in the 1960s, the theatre was taken over by the Toho company of Japan and used to screen its films and other Japanese films directly, without a distributor. The Toho company also took over cinemas in San Francisco and New York City. The architecture of the building used numerous gothic arches over the doorways and second floor windows. The main lobby's exterior and second floor architecture was reminiscent of a steeple, however it did not have a spire. The building is still standing today, and in fact is used as a church.

Museum Square or the SAG-AFTRA Building, originally the Prudential Building is a landmark building at 5757–5779 Wilshire Boulevard, spanning two city blocks along that street, on the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles housing SAG-AFTRA. It was opened in 1949 and was the tallest and, at 517,000 sq ft (48,000 m2), the largest privately owned structure in Los Angeles at that time. Welton Beckett of Wurdeman & Becket was the architect who designed it in the International Style. The building was part of the decentralization program by Prudential (1948-1965), with Rubin arguing that it included a "deliberate" urban-shaping policy: dazzling office buildings with large parking lots were constructed at the edges of established business districts. Arts & Architecture magazine described the building as a symbol of Los Angeles and the western way of life. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Miracle Mile had become one of the most important shopping districts in the city, with several large department stores and several junior department stores. This building was symbolic of the district's addition function as a major office district. Prudential Insurance Los Angeles offices were located here as was an Ohrbach's department store until it moved down the street in 1965, and a branch of Security-First National Bank. Addition of an office building by Prudential furthered the spread of office space along Wilshire Boulevard, with the land around turning into a high-density office district by 1960s.

Wilshire/La Brea is an under-construction heavy-rail subway station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system and is slated to open in early 2023. It will be served by the D Line and will be the first station on that line west of Wilshire/Western station.

Craft Contemporary, formerly the Craft and Folk Art Museum, is a non-profit, non-collecting arts museum dedicated to showcasing contemporary craft in Los Angeles, California. The museum is located on Los Angeles' Museum Row on Wilshire Boulevard, and across from the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits. It is the only institution on the West Coast of the United States to focus exclusively on craft. In addition to presenting exhibitions, Craft Contemporary is also well-known for its public programs catering to all ages, from family workshops to more intensive sessions for older adults.

The E. Clem Wilson Building, also called the Samsung Building, is a 55.64 m (182.5 ft) Art Deco / Art Moderne midrise building at 5225 Wilshire Boulevard at La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The building is currently managed by VisionQuest Ventures. The building has had multiple different names from signage rights, starting with Mutual of Omaha, then becoming Asahi in the 1990s, and becoming Samsung in the early 2000s. It now remains a blank blue sign.

Campanile was a restaurant co-founded by Mark Peel, Nancy Silverton and Manfred Krankl, which earned acclaim during the 23 years it was in business. Although its theme was Italian, the restaurant was notable for its California cuisine. In 2001, Campanile won the James Beard Foundation award for Outstanding Restaurant.

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, pitch, or tar; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years. Over many centuries, the tar preserved the bones of trapped animals. The George C. Page Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and displaying specimens from the animals that died there. La Brea Tar Pits is a registered National Natural Landmark.