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Street of Victorian-era houses; ... Downtown Los Angeles: Home for women's club of the same name starting in 1923 100: ... 2180 West Live Oak Dr.
At upper right is Los Angeles High School on Fort Moore Hill. The late-Victorian-era Downtown of Los Angeles in 1880 was centered at the southern end of the Los Angeles Plaza area, and over the next two decades, it extended south and west along Main Street, Spring Street, and Broadway towards Third Street. Most of the 19th-century buildings no ...
Scholarly discussions of Victorian women's sexual promiscuity was embodied in legislation (Contagious Diseases Acts) and medical discourse and institutions (London Lock Hospital and Asylum). [7] The rights and privileges of Victorian women were limited, and both single and married women had to live with heterogeneous hardships and disadvantages.
The houses, or rather Victorian manors, are now used as private homes, as they were in the 19th century. Some of the more well known residents from the Victorian era include: merchant Aaron P. Philips in 1887, real estate agent Charles C. Haskin in 1894, and warehouse operator Michael Sanders in 1887.
Angelino Heights, alternately spelled Angeleno Heights, is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles.Situated between neighboring Chinatown and Echo Park, the neighborhood is known for its concentration of eclectic architectural styles from three eras: Victorian, Turn of the Century and Revival.
It is located southwest of Downtown Los Angeles, along Alvarado Terrace between Pico Boulevard and Alvarado Street. Six homes and a church in the district were designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in 1971, and the entire district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The Victorian-era Flatiron style building was built in 1889 for Charles Raphael, a Los Angeles businessman. Triangular in shape, it housed the New York Suspender Factory and the California Ice Company. 873: Higgins Building: 2007 108 W. 2nd St. Downtown Los Angeles
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).