Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, California

Angelino Heights is a small quarter within the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California . It is most notable for its impressive wellkept Victorian era residences, although these are small in number.

Geography

Angelino Heights is bordered by Echo Park proper on the south, the west and the north-west, and by the Elysian Park neighborhood on the east and north-east. Its boundaries are roughly Echo Park Avenue on the west, Sunset Boulevard on the north and east, and the Hollywood Freeway on the south. No major thoroughfares run through the district.

The Neighborhood

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 a small spur line of the cable car and later, electric streetcar. Like Echo Park proper and Chinatown, it is known for its steep hills. The district contains several 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 achitecturally significant homes are to be found here, such as Craftsman, Bungalow, Mission Revival, Art Deco, and Colonial Revival, to name a few.

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 & requires new construction to resemble original architecture in scale, massing & materials.

Emergency services

Police service

Los Angeles Police Department operates the Rampart Community Police Station at 2710 West Temple Street, 90026, serving the neighborhood [http://www.lapdonline.org/rampart_community_police_station] .

Education

Angelino Heights is zoned to Los Angeles USD schools [http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/printedition/la-re-guide13feb13,1,1709946.story?page=2] .

All residents are zoned to [http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Plasencia_EL Betty Plasencia Elementary School] .

Some residents are zoned to [http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/King_MS King Middle School] , while some are zoned to Virgil Middle School.

All residents are zoned to Belmont High School.

External links

* [http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-heightsangelino7feb12,1,6833415.story?ctrack=1&cset=true"Los Angeles Times", West Magazine: "Angelino Heights" (12 Feb 2006)]
* [http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/news/communities/la-re-guide13feb13,0,1608780.story?coll=la-realestate-communities "Los Angeles Times", Real Estate section, Neighborly Advice column: "Preserving L.A.'s past in Angelino Heights" (13 Feb 2005)]
* [http://www.ahtrolley.org/ Angelino Heights Trolley Line]
* [http://you-are-here.com/victorian/philips.html Historic 1300 Carroll Avenue/Morales House]