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rejected a proposal by a jeweler to erect an ornamental clock on the sidewalk, Rosenheim offered, for a fee of $ 250, to prepare drawings that he could "safely guarantee" would be approved by the commission. The
Rosenheim-drafted plans were then approved at a special meeting of the commission held in Rosenheim's office on a Saturday morning. Rosenheim insisted he had done nothing improper, but the City Council unanimously voted to remove him, and the local branch of the American Institute of Architects recommended a term of suspension from its ranks.
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Rosenheim firm designed Farragut Chambers, a ten-story apartment house in
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wrote that the building "universally is considered the finest architectural monument in Los
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in West Adams, and the Judson C. Rives mansion in
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in 1937. The
Hollenbeck school was a departure for Rosenheim, considered "modern" by many at the time. Rosenheim was reluctant to acknowledge the school as modern and wrote the following in the April 1939 issue of
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