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West Adams is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. The area is known for its large number of historic buildings, structures and notable houses and mansions. It contains several Historic Preservation Overlay Zones as well as designated historic districts.
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Feb 22, 2018 · West Adams. The thrill of Sugar Hill. Black entertainers not only revived West Adams—they challenged racist covenants and laid the groundwork for the Fair Housing Act. By Hadley Meares...
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West Adams is Los Angeles' first suburb dating back to the 1880s, with craftsman and Victorian designed homes, and mansions. The informal borders of the neighborhood run just south of...
West Adams is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, with most of its buildings erected between 1880 and 1925, including the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. West Adams was developed by railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington and wealthy industrialist Hulett C. Merritt of Pasadena.
Standing at the northwest corner of 27th Street and Van Buren Place in the West Adams section of Los Angeles is a cross-gabled two and a half story Tudor-Craftsman house, memorialized by the city as the Furlong House, Historic Cultural Monument number 678.
He came to Los Angeles in 1892 at the age of 36, with a wife, a sick daughter who would die at the age of 7, and dead broke. Doheny, his first wife Carrie, and his daughter were living in a downtown boarding house where they had not paid rent for some time when one day he noticed an African American wagon driver passing by with a load of pieces ...
323. West Adams Terrace is a neighborhood in the West Adams area of Los Angeles. Dating back to 1905, it contains seven Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, one property on the National Register of Historic Places and one Green Book property.
