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LaFayette Square is situated about 7 miles (11 km) west of Downtown Los Angeles. It is south of Victoria Park, east of Arlington Heights and north of Wellington Square. The neighborhood consists of eight blocks, centered on St. Charles Place, and situated between Venice Boulevard on the north, Washington Boulevard on the south, Crenshaw ...
Area code. 213. Bunker Hill is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. It is part of Downtown Los Angeles. Historically, Bunker Hill was a large hill that separated the Victorian-era Downtown from the western end of the city. The hill was tunneled through at Second Street in 1924, and at Third and Fourth Streets. [ 1 ]
History. Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families. Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungles" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar ...
Continental Building. The Continental Building, formerly Braly Block, is a 151 ft (46 m), 13- story high-rise residential building on Spring Street in the Historic Core of Los Angeles. The Continental Building is part of the Spring Street Financial District which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3][4]
Bel Air (or Bel-Air) [ fn 1 ] is a residential neighborhood on the Los Angeles Westside, in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains in the U.S. state of California. Together with Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills, Bel Air forms the Platinum Triangle of Los Angeles neighborhoods. [ 4 ] Along with Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles community of ...
"Arlington Heights Terrace" The Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1913 The following statistics apply only to the area defined by the Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. project: The 2000 U.S. census counted 22,096 residents in the 1.03-square-mile neighborhood—an average of 21,423 people per square mile, among the highest population densities in the ...
Now Federal Building (1965, Welton Becket) COMMERCIAL ST. † COMMERCIAL Now Hall of Justice (1925) (N side of Temple from Broadway to Spring) —Farmers and Merchants Bank —L.A. Savings Bank —Commercial Bank/First National Bank —New Lanfranco Block (1888) Now Los Angeles Mall TEMPLE TEMPLE TEMPLE Hall of Records (1962) High School (1873-1887) / "Red Sandstone" Courthouse (1891-1936) Now ...
Echo Park is a neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California. [2] Located to the northwest of Downtown, it is bordered by Silver Lake to the west and Chinatown to the east. The culturally diverse neighborhood has become known for its trendy local businesses, as well as its popularity with artists, musicians and creatives. [3]