May 16, 2018
West Adams
As late 19th Century Los Angeles expanded from Bunker Hill to Angelino Heights, it also expanded westward to the south. Some of this development in homes of LA’s then rich and famous occurred along Wilshire Blvd and around Westlake Park(now MacArthur Park), while other development took place along West Adams Blvd from about Grand Avenue to Arlington Avenue. The intervening years has not been kind to this residential district leaving two areas at the endpoints of the development, one just west of Figueroa(Chester Place and St. James Square) and one centered around Western and Adams. Today we’ll take a look at the first neighborhood, just north of U$C and now called University Park composed of Chester Square and St. James Square.
I relied a good bit on information from the Noirish Los Angeles Forum at SkyscraperPage.com http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=170279) and Historic Los Angeles http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/) compiled by NLA commenter Gaylord Wilshire.
Read MoreAs late 19th Century Los Angeles expanded from Bunker Hill to Angelino Heights, it also expanded westward to the south. Some of this development in homes of LA’s then rich and famous occurred along Wilshire Blvd and around Westlake Park(now MacArthur Park), while other development took place along West Adams Blvd from about Grand Avenue to Arlington Avenue. The intervening years has not been kind to this residential district leaving two areas at the endpoints of the development, one just west of Figueroa(Chester Place and St. James Square) and one centered around Western and Adams. Today we’ll take a look at the first neighborhood, just north of U$C and now called University Park composed of Chester Square and St. James Square.
I relied a good bit on information from the Noirish Los Angeles Forum at SkyscraperPage.com http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=170279) and Historic Los Angeles http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/) compiled by NLA commenter Gaylord Wilshire.
Alfred J. Salisbury House
This house was built in 1891 and is one of the best preserved Queen Anne styled residences in the City. It has been really nicely refurbished and is used for U$C student housing.
