Menlo Avenue-West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District

The Menlo Avenue - West Twenty- ninth Street Historic District is a memorial area in the district of North University Park Los Angeles, which belongs to the municipality of West Adams. The area consists of a number of houses in the late Victorian and the American Arts and Crafts style, dating back their occurrence to 1896. It is surrounded by the West Adams Boulevard to the north, Ellendale Street to the east, through the West Thirtieth Street to the south and Vermont Avenue on the west. Well known the conservation district is renowned for its well-preserved buildings from that period architecture that illustrates the transition from the late Victorian period to the style of the Arts and Crafts movement, which began in southern California in the early 20th century. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 12 February 1987.

Individual properties of the ensemble

There are more than fifty historic buildings within the Menlo Avenue - West Twenty- ninth Street Historic District, which represent a cross-section of architectural styles from the early 20th century. Among the most outstanding houses in the district include:

• 2630 South Menlo Avenue - This two and a half story home in the Craftsman style was built around 1899, is conspicuous by its asymmetrical facade and be normal sloping gable roof. The house has been changed, because part of the porch was closed and used as a boarding house.
• 2631 South Menlo Avenue - about two and a half storeys, built in 1903 complete house, which was built around 1903. It was built on a square plan and has ornaments in the Tudor style. The exterior walls are on the ground floor of hewn stone and upstairs from shingles. By using the stone pedestal and the Tudor elements, the house contributes to the diversity of the structures in the conservation district.
• 2643 South Menlo Avenue - two and a half story house with 390 m² floor space, which was built in 1903 and was built by the architectural firm of Sumner Hunt and Wesley Eager. It is square and influenced by the neo-classicism. This steep, truncated roof is closed at the top by a balustrade with turned columns.

• 2646 South Menlo Avenue - the two-storey house whose design has been described as eclectic, has an irregular floor plan and was built around 1897 by William F. West.
• 2663 South Menlo Avenue - two and a half storey house is an example of the influence of the Tudor style to the transition to the Craftsman style and was built around 1896. It has a largely symmetrical facade with a gable roof and sloped steeply upturned bay windows. The house was rebuilt in 1920. To convert prices to a multiple dwelling, the outer ends of the porch was closed, inserted four additional verandas at the front and rear changed the interior of the building significantly.
• 2666 South Menlo Avenue - This two and a half story house with an irregular appearance was built around 1897 and combines influences of Craftsman, the Queen Anne style ( Shingle ) and the Richardson Romanesque Revival.
• 2679 South Menlo Avenue - two-story, built around 1901 house with 308 m² of living space and an almost square ground plan. The original owner was Florence Scarborough, who studied music in Italy and musical director of the B'nai B'rith Temple at the intersection of Ninth Street and Hope Street was. Her husband James Scarborough was a lawyer and consultant for a variety of businesses in Los Angeles.
• 2706 South Menlo Avenue - This two and a half story house was built in 1904 in the Craftsman style and has elements of alpine chalets.

• 2712 South Menlo Avenue - Built in about 1897 two-storey house has an asymmetrical facade and were influenced by the neo-classicism. The towering gable roof is sloped at the ends. The porch on the front of the house was converted into a closed mold.
• 2723 South Menlo Avenue - which serves about 1897 built two storey home is probably the oldest building on Menlo Avenue. It involves an unchanged building in Victorian style with Italian influences. Since 1902 it has been used as a boarding house.
• 2801 South Menlo Avenue - the two-story house was built before 1901 and has a steep gable roof and a porch running the full length of around columns.
• 2803 South Menlo Avenue - the two-story house with pyramidal roof was built about 1897 and has an embedded between two pillars inner porch and a two-story slanted bay window.
• 2811-2813 South Menlo Avenue - two-story 1898 built house with shingle -clad exterior walls of the first and second floor. The floor plan of the house is irregular. The house has two gabled roofs in the Dutch style, rising out of the main facade and an oblate pyramidisches roof. The house was built in 1912 converted into a double house.
• 2824 South Menlo Avenue - two-story shingle- clad house, which was built before 1901.
• 2827 South Menlo Avenue - Built in 1898, this house is a good example of shingle- clad building. It's actually almost square and its prominent features are the steep gable roof traufständige main facade and an eye-catching gable wall above the entrance porch. On the left side of the house on the ground floor a curved front window, sitting on the balcony.
• 2833 South Menlo Avenue - arisen about 1899 two -story house with asymmetrical facade and a gabled roof and a recessed porch with pediment and classical columns.
• 2615 Ellendale Place - the two-storey building inspired by the Spanish colonial style was built around 1908. It is located on the corner of Ellendale Place and West Adams Boulevard. It later became a house of the fraternity Alpha Gamma Omega at the University of Southern California.

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2631 S. Menlo Ave.

2646 S. Menlo Ave.

2663 S. Menlo Ave.

2666 S. Menlo Ave.

2679 S. Menlo Ave.

2706 S. Menlo Ave.

2707-2709 S. Menlo Ave.

2712 S. Menlo Ave.

2713 S. Menlo Ave.

2723 S. Menlo Ave.

2801 S. Menlo Ave.

2824 S. Menlo Ave.

2833 S. Menlo Ave.

2615 Ellendale Place