The Mulholland Dam’s location in Weid Canyon, in the hills below Mount Hollywood, had long been considered an ideal place for a dam. As far back as 1912, Mulholland and his cohorts believed ...

In the 1930s, engineers with L.A.’s Department of Water and Power performed their most impressive trick yet: they made an entire dam disappear. In 1932, the white concrete face of Mulholland Dam ...

Mulholland was called back to the site on March 12, 1928, after dam keeper Tony Harnischfeger detected a leak on the west abutment. The structure, however, seemed sound to Mulholland, who returned ...

Mulholland himself, ever the civil engineer, designed the St. Francis Dam, 15 miles north of Los Angeles proper, to help hold water inside a large reservoir. Crucially — and fatally — there ...

Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los ...

Again, the dam’s chief engineer – William Mulholland – declared it was normal. On the morning of its collapse, Mulholland and ...

The dam was designed and built by Los Angeles water giant William Mulholland, and features a curved white concrete structure with sculptures of bears on either end. For nearly a decade after its ...

Mulholland Drive sits high atop the Santa Monica Mountains, overlooking the vast expanse of the Los Angeles Basin. If you’ve ever been there, the view is especially spectacular at night: With ...