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Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zones
The Historic Preservation Overlay Zone of the Los Angeles, California, City of Los Angeles in California has been hailed by historic preservation advocates for its pioneering program, which designates not just buildings but entire neighborhoods or districts as worthy of historic preservation. Most of these districts are areas dominated by Victorian architecture, Victorian and American Craftsman architecture, Craftsman single-family houses, but some are predominantly Mission Revival Style architecture, Mission Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture, Spanish Colonial Revival, and one (the Gregory Ain Mar Vista, Los Angeles, California, Mar Vista Tract) is a mid-century modern area. List of HPOZ zones The current HPOZs in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Planning Division, Historic Preservation department, include: See also * : Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zones. References Notes Citations External linksCity of Los Angeles: Historic Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melrose Hill, Los Angeles
Melrose Hill is a neighborhood in Los Angeles. A portion of the neighborhood is designated as a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. Geography Melrose Hill is located north of Melrose Avenue, south of Santa Monica Blvd., east of Western Avenue, and west of the Hollywood Freeway. The city of Los Angeles has installed neighborhood signs to mark the neighborhood boundaries, with signs located at Western Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard, Western Avenue and Marathon Street and Western Avenue and Melrose Avenue. There is also a sign at Melrose Avenue and Ardmore Street. Hollywood is located to the north, and the intersection of Western Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard "splits the two neighborhoods". Though the Los Angeles Times Mapping Project places Melrose Hill in larger neighborhood of East Hollywood, the City of Los Angeles does not place Melrose Hill within East Hollywood Neighborhood Council and instead places it within the Hollywood Studio District Neighborhood Council Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilmington, Los Angeles
Wilmington is a neighborhood in the Harbor region of Los Angeles, California, covering . Featuring a heavy concentration of industry and the third-largest oil field in the continental United States, this neighborhood has a high percentage of Latino and foreign-born residents. Nearly 20 percent of Wilmington’s total land area is taken up by oil refineries — roughly 3.5 times more area than is dedicated to open and accessible green spaces. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wilmington had one of the highest death rates in all of Los Angeles County, exacerbated by elevated levels of industrial pollution. It is the site of Banning High School, and ten other primary and secondary schools. Wilmington has six parks. Wilmington dates its history back to a 1784 Spanish land grant. It became a separate city in 1863, and it joined the city of Los Angeles in 1909. Places of interest include the headquarters U.S. Army for Southern California and the Drum Barracks built to protect the nasce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banning Park Historic Preservation Overlay Zone
Banning may refer to: People * Banning (surname) *Banning Eyre, an American guitarist and writer *Banning Liebscher, an American youth pastor for Jesus Culture * Banning Lyon, a plaintiff in a 1990s medical fraud case against NME, now Tenet Health U.S. Communities *Banning, California, named for Phineas Banning * Banning, Delaware, a defunct town * Banning, Georgia *Banning Corner, Indiana, a defunct town *Banning, Minnesota, a ghost town Other places * Banning Dam in Thousand Oaks, California * Banning High School (other) *Banning House, a museum in Los Angeles, California * Banning Municipal Airport in Banning, California *Banning Pass, an alternate name for San Gorgonio Pass *Banning State Park in Minnesota Other uses * ''Banning'' (film), released in 1967 * Banning (internet), a technical measure that restricts access to information or resources * Banning orders, a measure used by the apartheid-era South African government to silence dissent *Shadow banning, a prac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granada Hills, Los Angeles
Granada Hills is a suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles. The community has a sports program and a range of city recreation centers. The neighborhood has fourteen public and ten private schools. History The community began as dairy farm and orchard known as the Sunshine Ranch which grew apricots, oranges, walnuts and beans. Vestiges of former citrus groves can still be seen in orange, lemon or grapefruit trees in many residential yards. In 1916, the San Fernando Valley's first oil well was drilled in what is now Granada Hills. The oil well was located at the northern tip of Zelzah Avenue. Granada Hills was founded in 1926 as "Granada;" the "Hills" portion of the name was added 15 years later. Geography and climate Granada Hills is located at the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains, north of North Hills, Northridge, west of Mission Hills and Sylmar, and east of the Porter Ranch neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The Ronald Reagan Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balboa Highlands Historic Preservation Overlay Zone
Balboa may refer to: Boats * Balboa 16, an American sailboat design * Balboa 20, an American sailboat design * Balboa 21, an American sailboat design * Balboa 22, an American sailboat design * Balboa 23, an American sailboat design * Balboa 24, an American sailboat design Places * Balboa, Cauca, a town and municipality in Colombia * Balboa, León, a Spanish village and municipality * Balboa, Panama, a port city in Panama ** Balboa District of Panamá Province in Panama * Balboa, Risaralda, a town and municipality in Colombia * Balboa (Los Angeles Metro station), on the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line * Balboa (lunar crater), located near the western limb of the Moon * Balboa High School (California), an American public high school of San Francisco, California * Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, a harborside community in Newport Beach * Balboa Park (other), any of several * Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California, a neighborhood of the city of Newport Beach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelino Heights Historic Preservation Overlay Zone
Angelino may refer to: People * Angelino Alfano (born 1970), Italian politician * Angelino Apelar (1927–2006), Evangelical Christian leader * Angelino Dulcert, Italian-Majorcan cartographer * Angelino Fons (1936–2011), Spanish film director and screenwriter * Angelino Garzón, former Vice President of Colombia * Angelino Medoro (1567–1631), Italian painter during the 17th-century, active in Latin America * Angelino Rosa, Italian professional football player * Angelino Soler (born 1939), Spanish road bicycle racer * José Angelino Caamal, Mexican politician * Angeliño, officially José Ángel Tasende, Spanish footballer Other * Angelino Heights, Los Angeles Angelino Heights, alternately spelled Angeleno Heights, is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Situated between neighboring Chinatown and Echo Park, the neighborhood is known for its concentration of eclectic architectural styles from ..., California * El Clásico Angelino football rivalry {{given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor Square, Los Angeles
Windsor Square is a small, historic neighborhood in the Wilshire region of Los Angeles, California. It is highly diverse in ethnic makeup, with an older population than the city as a whole. It is the site of the official residence of the mayor of the city and is served by a vest-pocket public park. History Between 1900 and 1910 a financier named George A.J. Howard envisioned a beautiful tranquil park as a setting for family homes built in a countryside style in what was then an undeveloped and rural area about halfway between the city center (now Downtown LA) and the coast. Howard pushed the early city fathers to get his development plan approved, and in 1911, Mr. Robert A. Rowan was able to initiate a residential development called Windsor Square. The development was constituted as a private square. At that time there were dense groves of bamboo in the area that needed to be destroyed before trees and gardens could be cultivated. Intervening walls or fences were discourag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilshire Park, Los Angeles
Wilshire Park is a neighborhood in the Central Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. Geography The boundaries of Wilshire Park are Wilshire Boulevard on the north, Olympic Boulevard on the south, Wilton Place on the east and Crenshaw Boulevard on the west. Attempts to rename Wilshire Park as part of the Koreatown district were rebuffed in August 2010, with passage of Los Angeles City Council File 09-0606, officially establishing the western boundary of Koreatown as Western Avenue, nearly from the western boundary of Wilshire Park. Wilshire Park is identified in the ''Thomas Guide'' on page 633:G:3. Windsor Square and Hancock Park are to the north, Country Club Park is to the south, Country Club Heights is to the east, Windsor Village, Longwood Highlands and Miracle Mile are to the west. Major thoroughfares include Olympic Boulevard and Crenshaw Boulevard. Most of Wilshire Park is in ZIP code 90005, but also includes a small area of 90019. History and landmar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitley Heights, Los Angeles
Whitley Heights is a residential neighborhood and historic preservation overlay zone in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Central Los Angeles, California. Known as a residential area for actors and other people in the motion-picture industry, it is divided between a hillside single-family district and an apartment area. It is notable for an attempt by its homeowners' group and the city to close off public streets to outside traffic, an effort that was ruled illegal by the courts. Geography The preservation zone is split into two parts by the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. Highway 101) running through the Cahuenga Pass. Streets within the zone's northern part are a one-block portion of Cahuenga Boulevard, Iris Drive, and some of Whitley Avenue; it consists almost exclusively of single-family homes. The southern zone, about 80% of the original plot, embraces Fairfield Avenue, Wedgewood Place, Whitley Avenue, Cerritos Place, Hollyhill Terrace, Grace Avenue, Emmet Terrace, Las Palmas Avenue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Heights, Los Angeles
Western Heights is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It contains one Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. History According to the ''Los Angeles Times'', Western Heights began development in 1903 or '04 and was well established by World War 1 . In the 1920s, some of the area's wealthier residents began to move further west to Beverly Hills. The original subdivisions that composed Western Heights were: the "Orange Crest Tract", the "West Garfield Heights Tract", the "Garfield Heights Tract", the "Florence Heights Tract", the "Kinney Heights Tract", the "Belevdere Heights Tract" and the "Western Heights Tract". Neighborhood residences were constructed in several architectural styles, including Craftsman, American Foursquare, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, Monterey Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Mission. Architects included Paul Williams and John C. Austin. In 1993, the Western Height Neighborhood Association received a $10,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Adams Terrace, Los Angeles
West Adams Terrace is a neighborhood in Los Angeles. Dating back to 1905, it contains seven Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, one property on the National Register of Historic Places and one Green Book property. In 2003, the neighborhood was designated a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. History The earliest mention of West Adams Terrace in the ''Los Angeles Times'' was on July 16, 1905. It describes the area as a "beautiful residence subdivision" with lots being sold for $40,000. Sold by the Mesa Land Company, the community is noted as the "last piece of high ground on Adams Street". During the next few years, the ''Times'' continued to report sales in the neighborhood. On March 6, 1910, the ''Times'' announced that architect A.B. Benton had completed plans for a residence for F.M. Vale on Eleventh Avenue in West Adams Terrace. In the 1950s, a Green Book property serving African-American tourists was located in the neighborhood. The name West Adams Terrace continued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
