This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Picture for a minute, Los Angeles, the Grand Marquise downtown,

with Spanish-style mansions in the hills, the Jetsons like diners and drive-ins.

Los Angeles is an architectural potpourri.

It's the kind of place where if you want to go and build a house that looks like a Dutch colonial or a mansion with Doric columns or a sleek modernist flat roof thing, that's fine.

Anything goes.

That's Avery Truffelman.

In Los Angeles, architecturally, there are no rules, no unifying style.

Because for people flocking to Hollywood in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, the growing city gave them an opportunity to build

whatever kind of house they wanted, French chateau, futuristic modern, Italian villa, whatever.

And there was this one particular architect

who could do it all and do it well.

And his name was Paul Revere Williams.

Paul Williams' contribution to American architecture can be described in a number of different ways.

This is architect Phil Freelon.

He was a incredibly gifted residential designer and on the West Coast particularly in

Los Angeles he was known for designing residences of a number of Hollywood stars.

Paul Williams designed Frank Sinatra's Bachelor pad,

a mansion for Lucille Ball and Desi Arniz.

He made additions on the Beverly Hills Hotel

and the Palm Springs Tennis Club.

He also helped design the stately and sparse LA County Courthouse.

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