Silver Lake‘s connection to music runs almost as deep as its well-known ties to film. There are live music venues, like El Cid, which hosted its first performances in 1962. There are studios, like Pulse, which opened as Soundcastle in the ‘70s.

Silver Lake is widely known, among other things, for its residential architecture. There are many fine examples of California Craftsman, Streamline Moderne, and all sorts of revival styles. Perhaps no style is more celebrated and more closely associated with the neighborhood, though, than Modernism.

The Silver Lake skyline is punctuated by several striking hill-top homes, such as Crestmount, Silvertop, Villa Capistrano, Villa del Lago, and Villa Monaco. Perhaps the most striking is the gargantuan Garbutt House, a hulking citadel built in the 1920s by and for wealthy capitalist, Frank Garbutt.