Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home

Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home is a four-story, 76,000-square-foot (7,100 m) "French colonial chateauesque" brick structure in the Westlake, Los Angeles, California neighborhood of Los Angeles near downtown. It was built in 1913 as a YWCA home for young working women. The house was built by William A. Clark (1839-1925), the copper magnate after whom Clark County, Nevada was named, as a memorial to his mother Mary Andrews Clark (1814-1904). The home was operated by the YWCA from 1913 to 1987, when it was closed as a result of earthquake damage sustained in the Whittier Narrows earthquake. The building reopened in 1995 as housing for low income single workers. The building has been designated as a Historic-Cultural Monument and listed...