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Elysian Heights, Los Angeles
Elysian Heights is a neighborhood within the northern Echo Park district of the city of Los Angeles, California. It is located at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. Geography Elysian Heights is within northern Echo Park, and borders Silver Lake on the northwest, Elysian Valley on the northeast, and Elysian Park on the east. The area is mostly residential, with houses set on the northern hills of Echo Park proper. Elysian Heights is largely within the ZIP code of 90026, but also encompasses a small area of the 90039 ZIP code in its northwest corner. Before the Glendale Freeway was built, it was also part of the neighborhood known as Edendale. Elysian Heights is served by Elysian Heights Elementary School. The author Beverly Mason was principal there for many years, and Toshi Ito, the mother of noted judge Lance Ito, taught kindergarten and 1st grade there for many years as well. History Since the 1910s, Elysian Heights, along with Edendale has been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo Park, Los Angeles, California
Echo Park is a neighborhood in the east- central region of Los Angeles, California. Located to the northwest of Downtown, it is bordered by Silver Lake to the west and Chinatown to the east. The culturally diverse neighborhood has become known for its trendy local businesses, as well as its popularity with artists, musicians and creatives. It has been home to numerous notable people. The neighborhood is centered on the lake and park of the same name. History Edendale Established in 1892, and long before ''Hollywood'' became synonymous with the commercial film industry of the United States, the area of Echo Park known as Edendale was the center of filmmaking on the West Coast. By the 1910s, several film studios were operating on Allesandro Avenue (now Glendale Boulevard) along the Echo Park-Silverlake border, including the Selig Polyscope Company, Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, the Pathe West Coast Film Studio, and others. Silent film who stars worked in the Edendale s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harwell Hamilton Harris
Harwell Hamilton Harris, (July 2, 1903 – November 18, 1990) was a modernist American architect, noted for his work in Southern California that assimilated European and American influences. He lived and worked in North Carolina from 1962 until his death in 1990. Biography Harris was born in Redlands, California in 1903. He began his studies at Pomona College but left after a year to study sculpture at the Otis Art Institute, now Otis College of Art and Design. In 1928, he began apprenticing under architect Richard Neutra with whom he was associated until 1932. He worked alongside Gregory Ain, and the two of them assisted one another as independent designers after leaving Neutra in the mid-1930s. Adopting Neutra's modernist sensibility, Harris merged the vernacular of California with a sensitivity to site and materials characteristic of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. In his residential work of the 1930s and 1940s, primarily in California, Harris created a tension and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
