Los Angeles Historic Districts Exploration Tour

Go back in time and explore the real Los Angeles and its most important Historic Districts. These gems were built when LA had less than 200,000 inhabitants and today they are hidden inside this megalopolis of 15 millions.
We will go from Angelino Heights, with its best example of pre-1900 Victorian houses; to Windsor Square, designed to be the most exclusive LA neighborhood with the largest lots, and Beaux Arts and Craftsman style homes; to Hancock Park, the dream of one of the most famous LA Mayors, known for its two-story, Palatian period revival homes—Tudor, Gothic Revival, Spanish Colonial, American Colonial, Mediterranean. We will visit also the world famous La Brea Tar Pits, with its incredible fossils collection of extinct mega-fauna of the late Pleistocene.The tour will end in South Carthay, a neighborhood developed in the 1930's by the Greek developer Spyros George Ponty with its Spanish Colonial Revival houses, stained glass windows, tiles, and shower glass etching.

Meeting Point

South Crescent Heights Boulevard & West Pico Boulevard

S Crescent Heights Blvd & W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035, USA

Meeting on Crescent Heights east side of Pico blvd. I have a white Chevy Volt.

What's included:

• Guide
• Car

Not included:

• Tip

What to expect:

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Angelino Heights Historic Area

1300 Carroll Ave, , Los Angeles, 90026-5110, California

Angelino Heights (1983)
-First Designated Historic District in LA.
-LA's first suburb: best concentration of pre-1900 Victorian-era architecture in LA
-Later example of Craftsman and Mission Revival Styles

30 minutes

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Windsor Square District: designed to be the most exclusive neighborhood with many lots 100 feet wide and 300 feet deep; many Beaux Arts and Craftsman style homes and later period Renaissance and Spanish Colonial revival homes.

30 minutes

Hancock Park

Boundaries are Highland Ave, Melrose Ave, Wilshire Blvd and Larchmont Blvd, , Los Angeles, California

Hancock Park: designated in 2006 HPOZ, part of Mayor Henry Hancock purchase of eastern portion of Rancho La Brea and developed by his son G. Allan Hancock in 1920's; known for its palatian two stories period revival home - Tudor, Gothic Revival, Spanish Colonial, Italian Renaissance Revival, American Colonial, Mediterranean and Monterey Revival, French Eclectic and many more. We will visit also the world famous La Brea Tar Pits, with its incredible fossils collection of extinct mega-fauna of the late Pleistocene.

40 minutes

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

South Carthay District, developed for the new affluent middle class in 1930's by the Greek developer Spyros George Ponty with its Spanish Colonial Revival houses, stained glass windows, tiles, shower glass etching.

30 minutes