FILE - This June 28, 1968, file photo, shows the main entrance to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif. The Ambassador Hotel, where presidents slept, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 and ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Architect Paul Revere Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1894 and rose to prominence designing homes and public buildings. The Los Angeles-born legend helped build and shape ...

In 1992, when Los Angeles went up in flames in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, one of the buildings claimed by fire was a bank at the intersection of South Broadway and 45th Street, located on ...

He designed affordable bungalows for first-time homeowners and luxurious mansions for Southern California’s elite, though as a Black man he wouldn’t have been allowed to live in some of the ...

Paul R. Williams defied the odds to become one of the most notable architects in history. Nicknamed “Architect to the Stars,” African American architect Paul R. Williams was one of the most successful ...

What do Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Denzel Washington, Bob Iger, Cary Grant and Michelle Pfeiffer have in common? They all lived in homes designed by a man who, some 40 years after his death, is ...

Paul R. Williams explored all avenues to fulfill his dream of being an architect. When he expressed a desire to pursue architecture, Paul R. Williams encountered the “blank wall of discouragement.” ...

Did you know that a Black man is one of the biggest contributors to today’s Los Angeles? Paul Revere Williams was a well-known Black architect in the 20th Century who designed some of Los Angeles’ ...

HomeAdvisor, a platform that connects homeowners to home improvement contractors, has created a visual tribute to Paul Revere Williams, a trailblazing Black architect whose work carried the glamour of ...

In the age of Instagram, architectural photography has become obsessed with the dramatic roof line, the spiral staircase, the silhouette of an austere geometric form that appears to hover over some ...

Left: Michelle McCool (Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty Images); Right: Alicia Fox (Photo by Chris Ryan/Corbis via Getty Images); Center top: Jade Cargill (Photo by WWE/Getty Images); Center middle ...

Before there was Frank Gehry there was Paul Revere Williams, who shaped the face of Los Angeles throughout much of the 20th century, a time in which he also became known as perhaps the greatest Black ...