May 9, 2018
Angelino Heights
As Los Angeles grew from a small town to large city the wealthy moved up and west. At first they moved from the Plaza area to Bunker Hill(you can see most of it in the foregound of my fisheye photo from SkySpace) which towered above the Plaza and stretched from Fort Moore Hill immediately west of the Plaza to Normal Hill(where LA Central Library now stands). In the late 1880’s Bunker Hill was becoming a less desirable address, so they picked up(sometimes quite literally*) and moved to the new neighborhood of Angelino Heights. One street there(Carroll Street) only has the older Victorian homes. Some were originally built there, others were moved in the late 1800’s and some more recently. All of the following pictures are from Carroll Street except for the Infrared image. In most cases I don’t know the detailed history of these houses so the pictures will be presented without comment, except in the few cases where I have additional information.
*In one case a man sent his family to Catalina for the weekend and when they came back discovered that the house was no longer there. They had moved it from Bunker Hill to Angelino Heights.
Read MoreAs Los Angeles grew from a small town to large city the wealthy moved up and west. At first they moved from the Plaza area to Bunker Hill(you can see most of it in the foregound of my fisheye photo from SkySpace) which towered above the Plaza and stretched from Fort Moore Hill immediately west of the Plaza to Normal Hill(where LA Central Library now stands). In the late 1880’s Bunker Hill was becoming a less desirable address, so they picked up(sometimes quite literally*) and moved to the new neighborhood of Angelino Heights. One street there(Carroll Street) only has the older Victorian homes. Some were originally built there, others were moved in the late 1800’s and some more recently. All of the following pictures are from Carroll Street except for the Infrared image. In most cases I don’t know the detailed history of these houses so the pictures will be presented without comment, except in the few cases where I have additional information.
*In one case a man sent his family to Catalina for the weekend and when they came back discovered that the house was no longer there. They had moved it from Bunker Hill to Angelino Heights.
I don’t have any information on this one.
