Carroll Avenue

	Carroll Avenue, 1300 Block
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	House at 1300 Carroll Avenue
Location:	Los Angeles, California
Coordinates:	34°4′10.54″N 118°15′17.37″W / 34.0695944°N 118.254825°WCoordinates: 34°4′10.54″N 118°15′17.37″W / 34.0695944°N 118.254825°W
Built:	1887
Architect:	Newsom,Joseph C.
Architectural style:	Bungalow/Craftsman, Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	76000488
Added to NRHP:	April 22, 1976

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Carroll Avenue is a street situated in Los Angeles, near Echo Park. It is in Angelino Heights, one of the older neighborhoods of Los Angeles. It consists of Victorian-era houses within a picturesque neighborhood, which has served as the backdrop for countless motion pictures from the earliest days of cinema to the present.

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Carroll Avenue is one of Los Angeles' first suburbs, and bears its name well, as it brings the city many tourists and visitors. 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. One of Los Angeles' first City Councilmen, Daniel Innes, resided at 1329 Carroll Avenue.

The street was first used for Charmed in 1998 when the exterior of the Innes house was used as the residence of the main characters. 1330 Carroll Avenue was also prominently featured in a Season 1 episode of the series. The Innes house also appeared in the film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, as as the home of a giant woman who hires Deuce. The Foy House, next door to the Innes house at 1337 Carroll Avenue, also appeared in season 2 of Charmed, and was used as the main residence in the television series Journeyman, which, like Charmed, is set in San Francisco. The house located at 1345 Carroll Avenue appeared in Michael Jackson's Thriller video. 1324 Carroll Avenue was used for exterior shots in the film Grandma's Boy. 1355 Carroll Avenue was used as the family home in McGee and Me, a children's Christian video series that was released in the early 1990s.