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In 1868 Banning created the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad, Southern California's first railroad and used it to transport goods from San Pedro Bay to Los Angeles, which soon became a major city in Southern California. [13] 1859 survey map of Rancho San Pedro. San Pedro was a township in the 1860 census.
This List of largest houses in the Los Angeles metropolitan area includes 17 single-family residences that are known to equal or exceed 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2) of livable space within the main house.
Banning House, also known as the General Phineas Banning Residence Museum, is a historic Greek Revival-Victorian home in the Wilmington section of Los Angeles, California. Built in 1863 by Phineas Banning near the original San Pedro Bay, it remained in
Bag End, Hobbiton, the comfortable underground dwelling of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins, constructed for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series. Tolkien's painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water, watercolour, 1938 [1] showing its ideal position near the top of the Hill at Hobbiton, with less-favoured Hobbit-holes lower down.
The house also features a third bonus room off of the kitchen that could easily be used as an extra bedroom or entertaining space. [5] After Joseph died in 1991, [3] Martha became the sole owner of the property until she died in 2004; Martha "donated an easement on the complex to the Los Angeles Conservancy" to keep the property intact. [6]
The first significant wave of Filipino migration came in 1923, when over 2,000 arrived in California. Ten years later, over 6,000 resided in Los Angeles, most living in the downtown neighborhood bordered by San Pedro Street to the east, Sixth Street to the south, Figueroa Street to the west, and Sunset Boulevard to the North.
Shane Building (former Directors Guild of America), Los Angeles, 1930 Skinner House, Los Angeles, 1937; Sontag Drug Store (now Wilshire Beauty), Los Angeles, 1935; Southern California Edison Company Building, Los Angeles; Southern California Gas Company Complex, Downtown Los Angeles, 1925; Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, 1911
Casa de San Pedro was part of the beginning of the Port of Los Angeles. In 1846 the Mexican governor of Alta California, Pío Pico, directed that a 500-vara-square of land (43 acres) facing onto San Pedro Bay be set aside as a government reservation. [2] In 1904 surveyor H.H. Burton inspected Casa de San Pedro for the San Pedro Government ...