This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley, California. It includes Historic-Cultural Monuments in the

San Fernando Valley The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California. Located to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it contains a large portion of the City of Los Angeles, as well as unincorporated ar ...

as well as the adjacent

Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California, lying between the San Gabriel Mountains on the northeast and the Verdugo Mountains and San Rafael Hills on the southwest. It opens into the San Fernando Valley at th ...

. In total, there are more than 70 Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCM) in the San Fernando and Crescenta Valleys. A handful of additional historic sites in the valleys have been designated as

California Historical Landmark A California Historical Landmark (CHL) is a building, structure, site, or place in California that has been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance. Criteria Historical significance is determined by meeting at least one of ...

s or listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

. The sites that are within City of Los Angeles borders are covered by two commissions of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning: the North Valley Area Planning Commission and the South Valley Area Planning Commission. They are designated by the City's Cultural Heritage Commission.

Overview of the Valley's Historic-Cultural Monuments

Second Los Angeles Aqueduct Cascades, Sylmar

The Historic-Cultural Monuments in the

are spread across the Valley from Chatsworth in the northwest to

Studio City Studio City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the southeast San Fernando Valley, just west of the Cahuenga Pass. It is named after the studio lot that was established in the area by film producer Mack Sennett in 1927, ...

in the southeast, and from the City of Calabasas in the southwest to Tujunga and

La Crescenta La Crescenta-Montrose () is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, California, United States. The community is bordered by Glendale, California, Glendale to the south and west, La Cañada Flintridge, Calif ...

in the northeast. When the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board was formed in 1962, its first-designated sites were HCM #1 (

Leonis Adobe The Leonis Adobe, built in 1844, is one of the oldest surviving private residences in Los Angeles County and one of the oldest surviving buildings in the San Fernando Valley. Located in what is now Calabasas, California, the adobe was occupied ...

) and HCM #2 ( Bolton Hall), both located in the San Fernando/Crescenta Valleys. The oldest building in the Valley is the Convento Building at the

Mission San Fernando Rey de España Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish mis ...

, which was built between 1808 and 1822. Other monuments directly related to the Mission San Fernando include the kiln in Chatsworth used to make bricks and tiles for the mission, the wells and settling basin in

Sylmar Sylmar is a suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley and is the northernmost neighborhood within the City of Los Angeles. Historically known for its profusion of sylvan olive orchards, Sylmar can trace its past to the 18th century and th ...

used to supply water to the mission, and the

Pioneer Cemetery In the United States, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere, a pioneer cemetery is a cemetery that is the burial place for pioneers. American pioneers founded such cemeteries during territorial expansion of the United States, with founding dates span ...

where Mission Indians as well as Valley pioneers are buried. In addition to the structures at the Mission, two

adobe Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for ''mudbrick''. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of e ...

structures,

Rómulo Pico Adobe Rómulo Pico Adobe, also known as Ranchito Rómulo and Andrés Pico Adobe, was built in 1834 and is the oldest residence in the San Fernando Valley,. making it the second oldest residence in Los Angeles. Built and owned by the Pico family of Ca ...

built in 1834 and Leonis Adobe built in the 1840s, rank among the oldest in the Valley. Eleven of the monuments located in the Valley have also been listed on the

. They are: Leonis Adobe, Bolton Hall, Rómulo Pico Adobe, the Convento Building at the Mission San Fernando,

Campo de Cahuenga The Campo de Cahuenga, () near the historic Cahuenga Pass in present-day Studio City, California, was an adobe ranch house on the Rancho Cahuenga where the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed between Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont and General Andr ...

Minnie Hill Palmer House The Minnie Hill Palmer House, also known as The Homestead Acre, is the only remaining homestead cottage in the San Fernando Valley. The cottage is a redwood Stick-Eastlake style American Craftsman-Bungalow located on a site in Chatsworth Park ...

Los Encinos State Historic Park Los Encinos State Historic Park is a state park unit of California, preserving buildings of Rancho Los Encinos. The park is located near the corner of Balboa and Ventura Boulevards in Encino, California, in the San Fernando Valley. The ranchos ...

Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation The Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation is in Los Angeles, California. The shrine is a structure of marble, mosaic, and sculpted figures and is the burial site for fifteen pioneers of aviation. Designed by Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. an ...

, the Old Stage Coach Trail through the Santa Susana Mountains, and the North Hollywood and Van Nuys branch libraries. Churches and other places of worship are well represented on the list, including the

Chatsworth Community Church Chatsworth Community Church is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in the Chatsworth section of Los Angeles, California. History The church was built in 1903 using volunteer labor. It was also used as the community's high school from 1906& ...

(1903), Faith Bible Church in Northridge (1917), the Saint Saviour's Chapel at

Harvard-Westlake School Harvard-Westlake School is an independent, co-educational university preparatory day school consisting of two campuses located in Los Angeles, California, with approximately 1,600 students enrolled in grades seven through twelve. Its two predec ...

in Studio City, and the David Familian Chapel of Temple Adat Ari El at the Valley's first Jewish synagogue in

North Hollywood North Hollywood is a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley. The neighborhood contains the NoHo Arts District, the El Portal Theatre, several art galleries, and the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences. The North ...

. The role of trees in the development of the Valley is celebrated with monument listings for a 1,000-year-old oak tree in Encino (removed in 1996), 114 Himalayan Deodar trees along White Oak in Granada Hills, 76 mature olive trees along Lassen Street in Chatsworth, and 300 pepper trees lining in Canoga Avenue in Woodland Hills.

Current and former Historic-Cultural Monuments

Non-HCM historic sites recognized by state and nation

References

External links

official Designated L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments (LAHCM) website
— ''with 'ever-updated' LAHCM list via PDF link''.
Los Angeles HCM Report for the North Valley
— ''L.A. City Planning Department.''
Los Angeles HCM Report for the South Valley

— ''via Given Place Media.''
Big Orange Landmarks: "Exploring the Landmarks of Los Angeles, One Monument at a Time"
— ''online photos and in-depth history of L.A.H.C.Monuments homepage, see “Landmarks by Community Planning Area” SFV area links. — website curator: Floyd B. Bariscale.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley *

Overview of the Valley's Historic-Cultural Monuments

Current and former Historic-Cultural Monuments

Non-HCM historic sites recognized by state and nation

See also

Lists of L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments

Other

References

External links