List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area

This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area of the City of Los Angeles. In total, there are 26 Historic-Cultural Monuments ("HCMs") in the Harbor Area, and several additional sites have been designated as California Historical Landmarks or listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Overview of the Harbor Area's Historic-Cultural Monuments

The Harbor Area includes some of the city's most historic sites, several of which are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Two ships located in San Pedro have also received higher distinction as National Historic Landmarks. They are the Ralph Scott, a fireboat used for several decades by the Los Angeles Fire Department, and the Lane Victory, a World War II Liberty ship.

The first sites in the Harbor area to be designated as HCM monuments were both built during the Civil War on land owned by Phinneas Banning. They are HCM #21 (the Civil War era Drum Barracks) and HCM #25 (Banning House where Phinneas Banning lived until his death).

The harbor has played an important role in the area's military history. San Pedro is the site of Fort MacArthur, which was established as a military reservation in 1888, and the harbor's historic sites include a Civil War-era barracks (Drum Barracks) and powder magazine (Powder Magazine (Camp Drum)), coastal artillery batteries built during World War I (Battery Osgood-Farley and Battery John Barlow and Saxton), and the flying bridge of a World War II heavy cruiser (the USS Los Angeles).

Many of the Harbor area's historical sites have been converted to museums that are open to the public, including Banning House, Drum Barracks, the Point Fermin Lighthouse, and the old San Pedro Municipal Ferry Building which now operates as the city-owned Los Angeles Maritime Museum. The hillside overlooking the Point Fermin Lighthouse also include impressive artillery bunkers used between World War I and World War II, and the Korean Bell of Friendship, donated by the Republic of Korea for U.S. Bicentennial in 1976. Though located a short distance outside the city limits, Lloyd Wright's Wayfarers Chapel is located a short distance north of Point Fermin.

The Los Angeles Conservancy offers bimonthly walking tours of the historic sites in downtown San Pedro, which includes access to the interiors of the area's historic structues. [cite news|title=San Pedro Walking Tour|publisher=Los Angeles Conservancy|url=https://secure2.convio.net/lac/site/Ecommerce?store_id=1941&VIEW_HOMEPAGE=true&FOLDER=0&TYPE=&NAME=&JServSessionIdr001=und7neo2t2.app13b]

Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area

Non-HCM sites also recognized

The LA HCM sites listed above include many of the most important historic sites in the City of Los Angeles' port area. Some others within L.A. in the area have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including Lane Victory, a U.S. National Historic Landmarks. These are:

There are 15 other historic sites in the port area of Long Beach, California, including the RMS Queen Mary. For these, see List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles County.

ee also

*List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
*List of California Historical Landmarks
* List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley
* List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles

References

External links

* [http://cityplanning.lacity.org/complan/HCM/dsp_hcm_result_Citywide.cfm?APC=Harbor Los Angeles HCM Report for the Harbor area]

* [http://www.laalmanac.com/LA/lamap2.htm City of Los Angeles Map] at Given Place Media