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==Location==
==Location==
The Angelino Heights neighborhood is situated on a hill of 502 feet in elevation<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.topozone.com/california/los-angeles-ca/city/angelino-heights/|title=Angelino Heights Topo Map, Los Angeles County CA (Hollywood Area)|work=TopoZone|access-date=2018-04-21|language=en-US}}</ref>, located within the Echo Park and Chinatown proper. The neighborhood’s boundaries include the [[Hollywood Freeway|101 hollywood freeway]] to the south, [[Sunset Boulevard]] to the north and east, and [[Echo Park Lake]] to the west. [[Sunset Boulevard]] is the main thoroughfare that connects and services all three districts<ref name=":0" />.
The Angelino Heights neighborhood is situated on a hill of about 502 feet in elevation<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.topozone.com/california/los-angeles-ca/city/angelino-heights/|title=Angelino Heights Topo Map, Los Angeles County CA (Hollywood Area)|work=TopoZone|access-date=2018-04-21|language=en-US}}</ref>, located within the Echo Park and Chinatown proper. The neighborhood’s boundaries include the [[Hollywood Freeway|101 hollywood freeway]] to the south, [[Sunset Boulevard]] to the north and east, and [[Echo Park Lake]] to the west. [[Sunset Boulevard]] is the main thoroughfare that connects and services all three districts<ref name=":0" />.


[[File:824 kensington road.jpg|thumb|824 East Kensington Road, Los Angeles, CA, Angeleno Heights, was designated as [[List_of_Los_Angeles_Historic-Cultural_Monuments_in_Silver_Lake,_Angelino_Heights,_and_Echo_Park|Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument]] 223 on June 6, 1979. This Queen Anne Victorian home with Moorish and Eastlake influences, was built in 1892. The location was soon the epicenter of the Los Angeles Oil Field and became surrounded by oil derricks. The home was moved to Angeleno Heights in 1900 and was the first home in the neighborhood to have electricity.]]
[[File:824 kensington road.jpg|thumb|824 East Kensington Road, Los Angeles, CA, Angeleno Heights, was designated as [[List_of_Los_Angeles_Historic-Cultural_Monuments_in_Silver_Lake,_Angelino_Heights,_and_Echo_Park|Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument]] 223 on June 6, 1979. This Queen Anne Victorian home with Moorish and Eastlake influences, was built in 1892. The location was soon the epicenter of the Los Angeles Oil Field and became surrounded by oil derricks. The home was moved to Angeleno Heights in 1900 and was the first home in the neighborhood to have electricity.]]

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Angelino Heights
Neighborhood of Los Angeles
Victorian houses in Angelino Heights
Victorian houses in Angelino Heights
Angelino Heights is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Angelino Heights
Angelino Heights
Location in Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34°04′13″N 118°15′17″W / 34.07028°N 118.25472°W / 34.07028; -118.25472
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyLos Angeles County
CityLos Angeles
Elevation
[1]
502 ft (153 m)

Angelino Heights is one of the oldest suburbs in Los Angeles, California, situated within neighboring districts of Chinatown and Echo Park. This neighborhood is known for its concentration of eclectic architectural styles from three eras: The Victorian, Turn of the Century and Revival eras. [2]

Location

The Angelino Heights neighborhood is situated on a hill of about 502 feet in elevation[3], located within the Echo Park and Chinatown proper. The neighborhood’s boundaries include the 101 hollywood freeway to the south, Sunset Boulevard to the north and east, and Echo Park Lake to the west. Sunset Boulevard is the main thoroughfare that connects and services all three districts[2].

824 East Kensington Road, Los Angeles, CA, Angeleno Heights, was designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument 223 on June 6, 1979. This Queen Anne Victorian home with Moorish and Eastlake influences, was built in 1892. The location was soon the epicenter of the Los Angeles Oil Field and became surrounded by oil derricks. The home was moved to Angeleno Heights in 1900 and was the first home in the neighborhood to have electricity.

The neighborhood

Neighborhood Snapshot
Aerial View of Neighborhood
Victorian style houses
Bob's Market, a historic-cultural monument (No. 215)

Originally spelled Angeleno Heights, Angelino Heights is second only to Bunker Hill as the oldest district in Los Angeles. Founded in 1886, it was originally connected to the downtown mainline (which ran east to west on Temple Street) by the Temple Street Cable Railway and later by streetcars. Like Echo Park proper and Chinatown, it is known for its steep hills. The district contains many notable examples of Victorian architecture, particularly of the Eastlake and Queen Anne styles, and though found throughout the neighborhood, they are especially concentrated on Carroll Avenue. Two of these residences served as the houses used for the TV shows Charmed and Journeyman, used in the shows as San Francisco Victorian residences, and because of the picturesque nature of the neighborhood, they have served as the backdrop for countless motion pictures from the earliest days of cinema to the present. Traveling around the neighborhood, one also discovers that many other styles of architecturally significant homes are to be found here, such as Craftsman, Bungalow, Mission Revival, Art Deco, and Colonial Revival, to name a few.

A large swath of Angelino Heights was destroyed to build the Hollywood Freeway, which cut it off from Temple Street save an overpass at Edgeware Road.

Angelino Heights was the City of Los Angeles' first recognized historic district, or Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ). Enacted in 1983 and spelled out in Angelino Heights' Preservation Plan, this zoning prohibits unsympathetic remodelling of historic houses and requires new construction to resemble original architecture in scale, massing and materials.

Police service

The New Rampart Police Station

The Los Angeles Police Department operates the Rampart Community Police Station, which was located at 2710 West Temple Street, 90026, serving the neighborhood.[4] It has since moved east into a newly constructed facility at 1401 West 6th Street, the site of the former emergency receiving hospital.

Education

Thomas Starr King Middle School

Angelino Heights is zoned to Los Angeles USD schools.[5]

All residents are zoned to Betty Plasencia Elementary School.

Some residents are zoned to King Middle School, while some are zoned to Virgil Middle School.

All residents are zoned to Belmont High School.

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Angelino Heights, Los Angeles
  2. ^ a b City of Los Angeles, Planning Department (10 June, 2004). [no "Angelino Heights Preservation Plan"]. http://preservation.lacity.org. Archived from the original on no. Retrieved April 20, 2018. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help); Check date values in: |date= and |archive-date= (help); External link in |website= (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Angelino Heights Topo Map, Los Angeles County CA (Hollywood Area)". TopoZone. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  4. ^ http://www.lapdonline.org/rampart_community_police_station lapdonline.org
  5. ^ http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/printedition/la-re-guide13feb13,1,1709946.story?page=2 latimes.com
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