Elysian Heights is a neighborhood within the northern

Echo Park 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 fo ...

district of the city of

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. It is located at the eastern end of the

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Geography

Elysian Heights is within northern

, and borders

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on the northwest,

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on the northeast, and

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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

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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

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, taught kindergarten and 1st grade there for many years as well.

History

Since the 1910s, Elysian Heights, along with Edendale has been home to many of the counter-culture, political radicals, artists, writers, architects and filmmakers in Los Angeles. The children of many progressives attended school there during the 1930s, '40s and '50s. Many architecturally notable and historic homes can be found on the hills of Elysian Heights, such as: * Southhall house, designed by Rudolph Schindler * Philip Dike house * Harwell Hamilton house *

Paul Landacre Paul Hambleton Landacre (July 9, 1893, Columbus, Ohio - June 3, 1963, Los Angeles, California) was an active participant in the cultural flowering of interwar Los Angeles, described by Jake Zeitlin as a "small Renaissance, Southern California styl ...

house * Estelle Lawton Lindsey house * Carey McWilliams house * Klock House * Judd-Atwater bungalows * Ross House − during the 1950s and '60s Al Nozaki lived here, the famed film art director who designed the Martian War Machines for

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's ''

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'' . The 1906 Edendale water tank and the Volunteer Fire House are also in the neighborhood. Elysian Heights was home to "

Room 8 Room 8 (c. 1947 - August 13, 1968) was a neighborhood cat who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California. He lived in the school during the school year and then disappeared for the summer, ret ...

the Cat", at one time the most famous cat in America.

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