Garvanza is a neighborhood in northeast
Los Angeles
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. Fourteen
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments are sites which have been designated by the Los Angeles, California, Cultural Heritage Commission as worthy of preservation based on architectural, historic and cultural criteria.
History
The Historic-Cul ...
are located in the neighborhood.
History
The town of Garvanza was originally part of the
Rancho San Rafael
Rancho San Rafael was a Spanish land grant in the San Rafael Hills, bordering the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco in present-day Los Angeles County, southern California, given in 1784 to Jose Maria Verdugo.
Geography
The rancho includes ...
, owned by
Jose Maria Verdugo
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*Jose ben Abin
*Jose ben Akabya
* Jose the Galil ...
. Its name comes from the fields of
garbanzo beans that once flourished in the area.
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Andrew Glassell
Andrew Glassell Jr. (September 30, 1827 – January 28, 1901) was a Los Angeles real estate attorney and investor. He may be best known as one of the founders of the city of Orange, California.
Early life
Glassell was born as Andrew Glas ...
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
Los Angeles
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in 1899.
Garvanza was the site of the
Pisgah Home mission.
Garvanza was served by
Henry Huntington's
Los Angeles Railway
The Los Angeles Railway (also known as Yellow Cars, LARy and later Los Angeles Transit Lines) was a system of streetcars that operated in Central Los Angeles and surrounding neighborhoods between 1895 and 1963. The system provided frequent local ...
(LARY) as early as 1902, and the LARY had a direct line from Garvanza to
Downtown Los Angeles by 1904.
By 1907, Huntington had extended the Garvanza line in two directions: along York Blvd. and along North
Figueroa Street
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.
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Two bridges connect Los Angeles and South Pasadena through Garvanza. One, the ]Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad
The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was a railroad founded on Sept. 5, 1883, by James F. Crank with the goal of bringing a rail line to Pasadena from downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was sold and cons ...
railroad bridge spanning the Arroyo Seco, was first built in 1885,[ and has been rebuilt twice since then. The York Boulevard bridge over the ]Arroyo Seco Parkway
The Arroyo Seco Parkway, also known as the Pasadena Freeway, is one of the oldest freeways built in the United States. It connects Los Angeles with Pasadena alongside the Arroyo Seco seasonal river. It is notable not only for being an early f ...
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 Judson Studios
Judson Studios is a fine arts studio specializing in stained glass located in the Highland Park section (also known as Garvanza) of northeast Los Angeles. The stained glass studio was founded in the Mott Alley section of downtown Los Angeles i ...
, which created much of the stained glass that graced Craftsman and Mission structures in Southern California
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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 ]Los Angeles City Council
The Los Angeles City Council is the legislative body of the City of Los Angeles in California.
The council is composed of 15 members elected from single-member districts for four-year terms. The president of the council and the president pro tem ...
December 9, 2010.
On July 25, 2019, the Garvanza Improvement Association was awarded a preservation award by the Los Angeles Conservancy.
Geography
Garvanza is bordered by Figueroa Street on the west, Pasadena
Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district.
...
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 Hermon
Mount Hermon ( ar, جبل الشيخ or جبل حرمون / ALA-LC: ''Jabal al-Shaykh'' ("Mountain of the Sheikh") or ''Jabal Haramun''; he, הַר חֶרְמוֹן, ''Har Hermon'') is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of th ...
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 Los Angeles Unified School District 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 (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:Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway
The Los Angeles Pacific Railroad (1896−1911) (LAP) was an electric public transit and freight railway system in Los Angeles County, California. At its peak it had of track extending from Downtown Los Angeles to the Westside, Santa Monica, an ...
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
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Neighborhoods in Los Angeles
Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County)
Northeast Los Angeles