Garvanza is a neighborhood in northeast

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. Fourteen

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are located in the neighborhood.

History

The town of Garvanza was originally part of the

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, owned by

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. Its name comes from the fields of

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s that once flourished in the area.laist The Neighborhood Project: Garvanza

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and Alfred Beck Chapman bought the land in 1869. Glassell and Chapman sold the land to Ralph and Edward Rogers, real estate developers and brothers. In 1886 the Rogers brothers subdivided the land and began to sell lots in what they called the "Town of Garvanza". The town was annexed by the city of

in 1899. Garvanza was the site of the Pisgah Home mission. Garvanza was served by Henry Huntington's

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(LARY) as early as 1902, and the LARY had a direct line from Garvanza to

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by 1904. By 1907, Huntington had extended the Garvanza line in two directions: along York Blvd. and along North

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. Two bridges connect Los Angeles and South Pasadena through Garvanza. One, the

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railroad bridge spanning the Arroyo Seco, was first built in 1885, and has been rebuilt twice since then. The York Boulevard bridge over the

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was built to replace a small wooden toll bridge which was inadequate to support the growing traffic between South Pasadena and Los Angeles. The old toll house still exists on the South Pasadena side. The

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, which created much of the stained glass that graced Craftsman and Mission structures in

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, have been located in Garvanza since 1911. In the early 20th century, Garvanza was considered an enclave of the local Arts and Crafts movement. Garvanza had lost its identity as a neighborhood by the 1940s. In 1997, the city of Los Angeles officially redesignated the area "Garvanza." Garvanza is incorporated into the City of Los Angeles "Highland Park-Garvanza HPOZ (Historic Preservation Overlay Zone) Preservation Plan" area adopted by the

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December 9, 2010. On July 25, 2019, the Garvanza Improvement Association was awarded a preservation award by the

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Geography

Garvanza is bordered by Figueroa Street on the west,

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city limits on the north, San Pascual Avenue/110 Freeway on the east and York Boulevard on the south. Highland Park is west, South Pasadena and

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are east. Official city signage was installed in 1997.

Parks and recreation

* Garvanza Park - 6240 East Meridian Street. * Garvanza Skate Park - 6240 East Meridian Street.

Education

The

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operates district schools. * Garvanza Elementary School - 317 N. Avenue 62, Los Angeles, CA 90042.
" Garvanza Elementary School. Retrieved on May 15, 2021.

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments

Garvanza has fourteen Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments: * Judson Studios - 200 S. Avenue 66, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 62 * Abbey San Encino - 6211 Arroyo Glen Street, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 106 * McClure Residence - 432 N. Avenue 66, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 107 * Santa Fe's Arroyo Seco Bridge - 162 S. Avenue 61, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 339 * Frederic M. Ashley House - 740-742 N. Avenue 66, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 402 * Robert Edmund Williams House aka Hathaway Home for Children - 480 N. Avenue 66, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 411 * Garvanza Pumping Station and site of Highland Reservoir - 420 N. Avenue 62, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 412 * George W. Wilson Estate - 616 N. Avenue 66, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 418 (Destroyed by fire on December 15, 1989) * Fargo House - 206 Thorne Street, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 464 * Dr. Franklin S. Whaley Residence - 6434 Crescent Street, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 528 * Charles H. Greenshaw Residence - 1102 Lantana Drive, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 565 * Monroe Cottage - 6310 Crescent Street, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 894 * Stewart Farmhouse - 126 N. Avenue 63, Losw Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 1028 (Moved from 511 W. 31st Street after designation) * Donnelly House - 1121 N. Avenue 64. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 1041

Notable people

Cora Scott Pond Pope Cora Scott Pond Pope (, Pond; March 2, 1856 – unknown) was an American professor, a scenario writer, and a Real estate development, real estate developer. She was also a women’s rights activist, Women's suffrage in the United States, suffragist ...

(1856-?), suffragist, teacher, pageant writer, real estate developer

Historical photos

File:Los Angeles and San Gabriel Railroad train on the bridge at Garvanza, the first trestle across the Arroyo Seco, approaching Highland Park from South Pasadena, ca.1885 (CHS-6666).jpg, 1886 view of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Railroad crossing the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza File:Arroyo_Seco_Trestles_Rail_and_Street_Car_lines_from_Pasadena_to_downtown_LA.jpg, 1895:

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and Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad train in the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza File:ArroyoSecoPkwy(CA110)1940.jpg, York Boulevard bridge (background) and The Marmion Way (foreground) bridge over the Arroyo Seco Parkway in 1940

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Neighborhoods in Los Angeles Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County) Northeast Los Angeles