Montecito Heights is a neighborhood in the Northeast Los Angeles region of

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. The population in 2000 was estimated at 16,768.

Geography and transportation

Montecito Heights' boundaries are roughly the

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( SR 110) or the Arroyo Seco on the northwest, Pasadena Avenue on the west, Avenue 35 to the south, Huntington Drive to the southeast, and Monterey Road to the east. Neighboring districts include Monterey Hills on the northeast, El Sereno on the southeast, Lincoln Heights on the southwest,

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on the northwest, and Highland Park on the north. Owing to the rugged terrain, no major thoroughfares run through the area, besides Griffin Avenue (Los Angeles). The district is largely in ZIP code 90031. Most of the homes on the hills were built after the 1950s when engineering technology enabled builders to construct on the steep hillsides.

Neighborhood

Annexed to the City of Los Angeles in 1912, Montecito Heights is known by the residents as the 'Wilderness in the City'. Montecito Heights sits on the Monterey Hills that divide the

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from the

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. Montecito Heights is a relatively isolated area of greenery and trendy resident home restorers. City views are available on the district's hills. Along with neighboring Highland Park and

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, it is one of the historic centers of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Landmarks

Ernest E. Debs Regional Park Ernest E. Debs Regional Park is a large open space nature reserve and regional park in the Montecito Heights, Los Angeles, Montecito Hills neighborhood of central-northeast Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, California. It is named after form ...

Heritage Square Museum Heritage Square Museum is a living history and open-air architecture museum located beside the Arroyo Seco Parkway in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the southern Arroyo Seco area. The living history museum sho ...

Audubon Center

Notable residents

Alana Cordy-Collins Alana Kathleen Cordy-Collins (5 June 1944 – 16 August 2015) was Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Diego. She was an archaeologist whose primary specialization was Peruvian prehistory. Biography She was born in Los Angeles, Ca ...

, anthropologist and archaeologist *

Napoleon Cordy Hannibal Napoleon David Alfred Thomas ("Nap") Cordy (July 29, 1902 — January 30, 1977) was an amateur scholar in the field of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, who made some notable contributions in the 1930s and 1940s to the early study a ...

, Mayanist *

Bricia Lopez Bricia Lopez is a Mexican-American restaurateur and author. Lopez is the co-owner of Guelaguetza, an Oaxacan restaurant in Los Angeles, California in the United States. Lopez is one of America's foremost authorities on Oaxacan culture and cuisin ...

, author and restaurateur *

Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was widely noticed for his " drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a hor ...

, artist

References

External links

Arroyo Seco Neighborhood CouncilMontecito Heights Improvement Association
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