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Now, West Adams Heights is suddenly in the news –– not just in our own West Adams WAHA Matters newsletter, but in the Los Angeles Times and on our local broadcast stations, reporting the City Attorney’s action to close down two unlicensed group homes at 2205 and 2217-19 South Hobart, with a Receiver appointed to repair these two historic ...
Jan 12, 2016 · A Resident Expert's Guide to West Adams, Los Angeles's Neighborhood of the Year. By Bianca Barragan Jan 12, 2016, 12:30pm PST. The People's Guide takes a page from Curbed SF and offers tours of LA ...
About West Adams. West Adams is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Though much of its history is forgotten, it was once an area of grand homes and bustling development. The great land boom that turned Los Angeles from a Pueblo to a metropolis came during the period of 1887 through 1915.
West Adams Heights-Sugar Hill, Los Angeles. 525 likes · 14 talking about this. Our association was founded in 1982 as the Sugar Hill Neighborhood Watch in historic West Adams district, just southwest...
Hattie McDaniel Residence at 2201 S. Harvard Blvd. The all-white West Adams Heights Improvement Association filed a lawsuit contending that the white homeowners who sold the homes violated the racial covenant on the property. The Black homeowners retained attorney Loren Miller to defend their right to own property and live in this once all ...
West Adams Heights, now also known as Sugar Hill, played a major role in the Civil Rights movement in Los Angeles. In 1938 Norman Houston, president of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, and an African American, purchased a home at 2211 South Hobart Boulevard. Legal Action from eight homeowners quickly ensued.
May 8, 2021 · The tree-lined boulevards of the West Adams neighborhood are studded with stately homes. "That was Marvin Gaye's place right there," says Rha Nickerson, who grew up in the area, as she points to ...
