List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles

This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles, California. In total, there are over 144 Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCM) in the South Los Angeles region, which includes the West Adams, Exposition Park, and University of Southern California campus areas. It also includes historic sites in Watts (including Simon Rodia's Watts Towers), Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw, Jefferson Park, and Leimert Park. Further, certain historic sites in Arlington Heights, Harvard Heights and Mid-City neighborhoods below Washington Boulevard are identified by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning as being in South Los Angeles, and are included here.^[1] They are designated by the city's Cultural Heritage Commission. There is also a separate list below identifying other historic sites in the area that have not been designated as HCMs, but which have been recognized as California Historical Landmarks or have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Overview of the Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles

Forthmann House, 2014

National Historic Landmarks: South Los Angeles includes some of the city's most historic sites, including three National Historic Landmarks. The sites receiving this high designation are: (1) the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, built in 1923, and used as the principal site of the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games;^[2] (2) the Watts Towers (HCM #15), a collection of 17 interconnected structures, two of which reach heights of over 99 feet (30 m), built by Italian immigrant construction worker Simon Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954; and (3) Baldwin Hills Village (HCM #174), an innovative planned community built in the 1930s with large open grassy areas and trees.

West Adams: A significant concentration of historic sites in the South Los Angeles region are in the West Adams district, which stretches "roughly from Figueroa Street on the east to West Boulevard on the west, and from Pico Boulevard on the north to Jefferson Boulevard on the south."^[3]. The West Adams district was one of the city's most affluent areas from the 1890s through the 1920s. Many of the area's mansions, Victorian homes, and American Craftsman bungalows have been preserved. The area's 70 Historic-Cultural Monuments include some of the city's most renowned landmarks, such as the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (HCM #28) operated by UCLA and the Frederick Hastings Rindge House (HCM #95) built by a Bostonian who owned all of Malibu.

Jefferson Park: Through the 20th century, Jefferson Park was variously settled by Japanese-American, African-American, and Louisiana Creole communities. The neighborhood is known for its concentration of historic American Craftsman houses, and a section of the neighborhood is a City of Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ). Notable Historic-Cultural Monuments include the Westminster Presbyterian Church (HCM #229), and the Jefferson Branch Library.

USC, Exposition Park, and North University Park: To the east of West Adams and Jefferson Park is the campus of the University of Southern California, Exposition Park, and the neighborhood of North University Park, which contains the North University Park Historic District and the Menlo Avenue–West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District. The important sites in these neighborhoods include the L.A. Coliseum, the Shrine Auditorium (HCM #139) (the site of eleven Academy Awards ceremonies between 1947 and 2001),^[4] the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, oil baron Edward Doheny's Chester Place mansion (HCM #30), the castle-like Stimson House (HCM #212) that survived a dynamite attack in 1896, the picturesque Victorian Forthmann House (HCM #103), the Exposition Park Rose Garden, USC's Widney Hall (HCM #70) (the oldest university building in Southern California, in continuous use since 1880), and the birthplace of two-time U.S. presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson (HCM #35).

Vermont Square, Watts and South L.A.: This area includes the city's oldest library building, the Vermont Square Branch (HCM #264), built in 1913 in the Vermont Square neighborhood. It is an Italian Renaissance style building with Prairie style proportions built with a grant from Andrew Carnegie. The Watts Station was designated as a Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #36) shortly after the Watts Riots in 1965. The old wooden railway station, built in 1904, was the only building along Watts' main thoroughfare (which became known as "Charcoal Alley") to survive the riots. The station became a symbol of continuity, hope and renewal for the Watts community. Also in South Los Angeles is the Ralph J. Bunche House (HCM #159). The boyhood home of Ralph J. Bunche, the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, it has been preserved as a museum.

The Dunbar Hotel, 2008.

Churches: Many of the city's most recognizable churches are also located in southern Los Angeles, including the domed Second Church of Christ Scientist (HCM #57), the second Catholic church in the city to be consecrated, St. Vincent de Paul (HCM #72), the city's Episcopal cathedral, Saint John's, its Greek Orthodox cathedral, Saint Sophia (HCM #120), the Gothic McCarty Memorial Christian Church, which became one of the first white Protestant churches to be racially integrated in the 1950s, the Lombard Romanesque Second Baptist Church (HCM #200) designed in 1925 by noted African-American architect, Paul R. Williams, and the Richardsonian Romanesque First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Cathedral (HCM #341).

African-American Music History: The area also includes sites that have played an important role in the city's musical history. The Ray Charles Worldwide Offices and Studios were designated as a Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #776) in 2004, and the Dunbar Hotel (HCM #70) was at the center of the thriving Central Avenue jazz scene in the 1930s and 1940s. After hosting the first national convention of the NAACP to be held in the western United States, the Dunbar hosted Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Lena Horne and other jazz legends. Former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson also ran a nightclub at the Dunbar in the 1930s. And the Lincoln Theatre (HCM #744), built in 1927, was once the crown jewel of Central Avenue, referred to by some as the West Coast's version of New York City's Apollo Theater.

Current and former Historic-Cultural Monuments

HCM #[5]	Landmark name[6]	Image	Date designated[6]	Locality[6]	Neighborhood	Description[7]
15 (1027) (2373)	Towers of Simon Rodia (Watts Towers)		March 1, 1963	1765 E. 107th St. 33°56′19″N 118°14′28″W	Watts	Towers constructed by Italian immigrant Simon Rodia between 1921 and 1954
18	Hyde Park Congregational Church (site of)		May 10, 1963	6501 Crenshaw Blvd. 33°58′49″N 118°19′52″W	Hyde Park	Tiny wooden church with two front-corner towers; demolished in 1964; delisted 1/1/1964
28	William Andrews Clark Memorial Library		October 9, 1964	2520 Cimarron St. 34°01′59″N 118°18′51″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	Renaissance Revival building completed in 1926; designed by Robert D. Farquhar
30	Oliver G. Posey-Edward L. Doheny Residence		January 8, 1965	8 Chester Pl. 34°01′50″N 118°16′37″W	West Adams	Mansion purchased in 1901 by oil businessman Edward L. Doheny; designed by Eisen & Hunt; now part of Mount St. Mary's College campus
35	Birthplace of Adlai E. Stevenson II		August 20, 1965	2639 Monmouth Ave. 34°01′54″N 118°17′06″W	West Adams - North University Park - North University Park Historic District	Site of birthplace of two-time U.S. presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II
36 (2372)	Watts Station		December 3, 1965	1686 E. 103rd St. 33°56′35″N 118°14′34″W	Watts	Electric railway station built in early 1900s; the only building along the area known as "Charcoal Alley" to survive the Watts Riots
57 (2364)	Second Church of Christ Scientist, Los Angeles		July 17, 1968	946–948 West Adams Blvd. 34°01′51″N 118°16′59″W	West Adams - North University Park	Built in 1910 and designed by Alfred Rosenheim, purchased by the Art of Living foundation in 2009
70 (1025)	Widney Hall (Alumni Hall)		December 16, 1970	650 Childs Way 34°01′08″N 118°16′56″W	USC Campus	Oldest university building in Southern California, in continuous use since 1880
72	Automobile Club of Southern California		February 3, 1971	2601 S. Figueroa St. 34°01′41″N 118°16′35″W	West Adams	Spanish colonial headquarters building erected in 1922; designed by Sumner Hunt and Silas Reese Burns
90	St. Vincent de Paul Church		July 11, 1971	621 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′43″N 118°16′34″W	West Adams	Second Roman Catholic church in Los Angeles to be consecrated; designed by Albert C. Martin Sr.
95 (2363)	Rindge House		February 23, 1972	2263 S. Harvard St. 34°02′03″N 118°18′25″W	West Adams	Mansion built in 1906 for Frederick H. Rindge; designed by Frederick Roehrig in Chateauesque style
103	Forthmann House (and Carriage House)		October 4, 1972	2801 S. Hoover Blvd. 34°01′45″N 118°17′03″W	West Adams - North University Park - North University Park Historic District	Victorian house built in the 1880s; designed by Burgess J. Reeve; relocated in 1989 from original location
117	Residence		April 4, 1973	2218 S. Harvard Blvd. 34°02′11″N 118°18′23″W	West Adams	American Colonial Revival House built in approximately 1905
120	Saint Sophia Cathedral		June 6, 1973	1324 S. Normandie Ave. 34°02′44″N 118°17′58″W	Byzantine-Latino Quarter	Greek Orthodox cathedral designed by Kalionzes, Klingerman & Walker in the Byzantine style, dedicated in 1952
127	Exposition Club House		May 1, 1974	3990 Menlo Ave. 34°00′41″N 118°17′23″W	Exposition Park	Spanish Colonial Revival building completed in 1920s in Exposition Park
128	Hancock Memorial Museum		May 15, 1974	3616 University Ave.	USC Campus	Large mansion built by the Hancock family at Wilshire Blvd. and Vermont Ave., circa 1900; razed in 1938, though four rooms were moved in their entirety to the USC campus
131 (2366)	Dunbar Hotel (Somerville Hotel)		September 4, 1974	4225 S. Central Ave. 34°00′24″N 118°15′24″W	Central Avenue	Focal point of the Central Avenue African-American community in the 1930s and 1940s.
139 (2315)	Shrine Auditorium		March 5, 1975	665 W. Jefferson Blvd. 34°01′23″N 118°16′53″W	West Adams - North University Park	Theater seating 6,700 is one of the largest in the United States and was the prior site of the Academy Awards. Also known as Al Malaikah Temple.
159 (2321)	Ralph J. Bunche House		July 27, 1976	1221 E. 40th Pl. 34°00′37″N 118°15′13″W	South Los Angeles	Home of Nobel Peace Prize winner in his youth
174	Village Green (Baldwin Hills Village)		May 4, 1977	5112–5595 Village Green 34°01′10″N 118°21′39″W	Baldwin Hills	Urban housing project completed in 1942 featuring extensive grassy areas and open spaces, which was designed by Reginald D. Johnson, Wilson and Merril, Robert E. Alexander. AIA 1972 award.
179	Residence (site of)		August 17, 1977	919 W. 20th St. 34°02′09″N 118°16′45″W	West Adams - Twentieth Street Historic District	Site of Queen Anne Victorian house built in 1908; demolished in 1978
185	President's House (site of)		April 19, 1978	7851 Budlong Ave. 33°58′05″N 118°17′47″W	South Los Angeles	Mission style house built in 1912 (now the location of the Crenshaw Christian Center Faith Dome)
197 (2319)	Britt House		October 18, 1978	2141 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′59″N 118°18′46″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	Classical Revival house built in 1910, designed by Alfred F. Rosenheim; used today as the headquarters of the LA84 Foundation
200	Second Baptist Church		October 18, 1978	2412 Griffith Ave. 34°01′16″N 118°15′23″W	South Los Angeles	Lombard Romanesque church built in 1925, designed by Paul R. Williams; long a hub of the African American community
212 (2367)	Stimson House		May 16, 1979	2421 S. Figueroa St. 34°01′46″N 118°16′33″W	West Adams	Richardsonian Romanesque mansion; built in 1891; originally home of lumber and banking millionaire; survived a dynamite attack by a blackmailer in 1896; later occupied by a brewer, a fraternity house, student housing and a convent
214	Mount Carmel High School (former site)		June 6, 1979	7011 S. Hoover St. 33°58′33″N 118°17′15″W	South Los Angeles	Spanish Revival style Catholic high school built in 1934. Demolished in 1983.
229	Westminster Presbyterian Church		June 11, 1980	2230 W. Jefferson Blvd. 34°01′31″N 118°19′11″W	Jefferson Park	First African American Presbyterian congregation in Los Angeles; Spanish Revival style structure built in 1904
230 (2362)	Villa Maria (Ramsay-Durfee House)		June 12, 1980	2425 S. Western Ave. 34°02′01″N 118°18′36″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	Tudor Revival mansion designed by Frederick Louis Roehrig and built in 1908; bought by Brothers of St. John of God in 1978
240	Residence		April 9, 1981	2703 S. Hoover St. 34°01′48″N 118°17′03″W	West Adams	Queen Anne style home built circa 1891, designed by Bradbeer and Ferris
241	Sunshine Mission		April 9, 1981	2600 S. Hoover St. 34°01′52″N 118°17′01″W	West Adams	Built in 1893, it has housed an experimental kindergarten, a prep school for girls, the headquarters of the Dianetics Foundation, and the Sunshine Shelter for homeless women; also known as Casa de Rosas
242 (2354)	Miller and Herriott Tract House		April 9, 1981	1163 W. 27th St. 34°01′49″N 118°17′10″W	West Adams - North University Park - North University Park Historic District	Eastlake style house built in 1890, designed by Bradbeer and Ferris
258	Fitzgerald House		November 5, 1982	3115 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′58″N 118°19′05″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	Italian Gothic style house built in 1903, designed by Joseph Cather Newsom
264 (2371)	Vermont Square Branch Library		June 7, 1983	1201 W. 48th St. 33°59′59″N 118°17′45″W	Vermont Square	Oldest branch library in Los Angeles; built in 1913 as a Carnegie library; designed by Hunt & Burns in Beaux Arts style with Italian Renaissance influence
273	Durfee House		January 4, 1984	1007 W. 24th St. 34°02′01″N 118°16′55″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Eastlake style 2-story wood-frame house built, circa 1885, for Richmond Durfee and his wife.
295	A. E. Kelly Residence		July 12, 1985	1140 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′55″N 118°17′06″W	West Adams	Queen Anne Victorian house built in the 1890s; fish-scale shingles on second floor
296	John C. Harrison Residence		July 25, 1985	1160 W. 27th St. 34°01′48″N 118°17′09″W	West Adams	Queen Anne Victorian house built in 1891 with a three-story tower and wrap-around porch
297	West Adams Gardens		August 13, 1985	1158-1176 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′55″N 118°17′08″W	West Adams	Grouping of seven two-story Tudor Revival residential structures built in 1920, designed by L.A. Smith
300	Casa Camino Real		October 29, 1985	1828 Oak St. 34°02′13″N 118°16′37″W	West Adams - North University Park	Eclectic structure built in 1923, designed by Morgan, Walls & Morgan; Beauz Arts exterior with elements of Art Deco and Spanish Revival styles
305 (2358)	John Muir Branch Library		June 27, 1986	1005 W. 64th St. 33°58′53″N 118°17′31″W	South Los Angeles	Italian Renaissance style branch library built in 1930, designed by Henry F. Withey (Ed. note: List of RHPs in L.A. states this built in 1920, here states 1930, which is it?)
306	Original Vernon Branch Library (site of)		June 27, 1986	4504 S. Central Ave. 34°00′09″N 118°15′23″W	South Los Angeles	Branch library that housed large collection of books on African American history
307 (2342)	Washington Irving Branch Library		June 27, 1986	1803 S. Arlington Ave. 34°02′26″N 118°19′04″W	Arlington Heights	Lombardic Richardsonian Romanesque library branch built in 1926, designed by Allison & Allison
330	Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery		December 1, 1987	1831 W. Washington Blvd. 34°02′26″N 118°17′53″W	West Adams	Cemetery opened in 1884 with pioneer families and 19th century funerary architecture; first in the West to operate a crematorium
331	Pacific Bell Building		December 8, 1987	2755 W. 15th St. 34°02′44″N 118°18′07″W	West Adams - Harvard Heights	Spanish Mission style garage with Churrigueresque details built, circa 1922
335	Henry J. Reuman Residence		December 18, 1987	925 W. 23rd St. 34°02′01″N 118°16′49″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Queen Anne and Colonial Revival transitional style house built, circa 1898, designed by August Wackerbarth
341	First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Cathedral & Community Center		January 22, 1988	1449 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′59″N 118°17′35″W	West Adams	Richardsonian Romanesque cathedral built in 1930 for the West Adams Presbyterian Church, designed by architects H.M. Patterson and George W. Kelham
344	Institute of Musical Art		February 23, 1988	3210 W. 54th St. 33°59′34″N 118°19′43″W	Leimert Park	Music school and recording studio founded in 1922
349 (2330)	Fire Station No. 18		March 29, 1988	2616 S. Hobart Blvd. 34°01′55″N 118°18′27″W	West Adams	Mission Revival fire station built in 1904, designed by John C. Parkinson
350	Ecung-Ibbetson House and Moreton Bay Fig Tree		March 29, 1988	1190 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′56″N 118°17′10″W	West Adams	Richardsonian Romanesque and Victorian home built in 1899
407	Seyler Residence		January 20, 1989	2305 Scarff St. 34°01′56″N 118°16′50″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Queen Anne style Victorian home built in 1894, designed by Abraham M. Edelman
408 (2351)	Machell-Seaman House		January 20, 1989	2341 Scarff St. 34°1′55″N 118°16′46″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Asymmetrical Queen Anne style Victorian home built in 1888
409	Burkhalter Residence		January 20, 1989	2309–2311 Scarff St. 34°01′58″N 118°16′49″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Queen Anne style Victorian home built in 1895
410	Distribution Station No. 31		January 20, 1989	1035 W. 24th St. 34°02′02″N 118°16′59″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Industrial building designed by staff architects at Pacific Gas & Electric Company, built in 1925
417	Gordon L. McDonough House		February 21, 1989	2532 5th Ave. 34°02′00″N 118°19′19″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	American Craftsman style house built in 1908, designed by architect Frank M. Tyler
419	Walker Mansion		March 3, 1989	3300 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′56″N 118°19′12″W	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Grand Craftsman style mansion with Tudor, Mediterranean and Mission Revival influences
434	Colonel John E. Stearns Residence		May 5, 1989	27 St. James Park 34°01′54″N 118°16′49″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Classical Revival house built in 1900, designed by architect John C. Parkinson
455	Margaret T. and Bettie Mead Creighton Residence		October 24, 1989	2342 Scarff St. 34°01′52″N 118°16′48″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Colonial Revival style house built in 1896
456	Ezra T. Stimson House		October 24, 1989	839 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′50″N 118°16′50″W	West Adams	Tudor Revival house built in 1901, designed by architect Frederick Roehrig
457	Freeman G. Teed House		October 24, 1989	2365 Scarff St. 34°01′54″N 118°16′51″W	West Adams - St. James Park	American Craftsman style house built in 1893
458	Wells-Halliday Mansion		November 3, 1989	2146 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′56″N 118°18′48″W	West Adams	Dutch Colonial style house built in 1901; Craftsman style wing built in 1909
466	Henry J. Foster Residence		October 17, 1989	1030 W. 23rd St. 34°02′04″N 118°16′58″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Queen Anne style house built circa 1889
467	Chalet Apartments		October 27, 1989	2375 Scarff St. 34°01′54″N 118°16′52″W	West Adams - St. James Park	Two-story, 19-unit apartment complex built in 1913; designed by Frank M. Tyler with the appearance of a single-family house
477	Briggs Residence		January 30, 1990	3734 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′56″N 118°19′33″W	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Alpine Craftsman style house built in 1912, designed by Hudson & Munsell with steep, cross-gabled roof
478	Guasti Villa-Busby Berkeley Estate		January 30, 1990	3500 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′58″N 118°19′20″W	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Beaux Arts – Italian Renaissance style mansion, designed by Hudson & Munsell; purchased in 1936 by Busby Berkeley; now operated as the "Peace Awareness Labyrinth Gardens"
479	Dr. Grandville MacGowan Home		January 30, 1990	3726 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′56″N 118°19′32″W	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Alpine Craftsman style mansion with Tudor Revival influences, built in 1912 and designed by Hudson & Munsell
487	Sanchez Ranch		May 1, 1990	3725 Don Felipe Dr. 34°00′25″N 118°20′24″W	Leimert Park	Adobe structures once part of the Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera, built in 1790
489	Richard H. Alexander Residence		May 30, 1990	2119 Estrella Ave. 34°01′57″N 118°16′35″W	West Adams	Two-story Eastlake style house built circa 1888
496	Lycurgus Lindsay Mansion		May 30, 1990	3424 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′56″N 118°19′19″W	West Adams	Mission Revival style house built circa 1900 with tiles from Western Art Tile works owned by Lycurgus Lindsay; house designed by Charles Whittlesey
497	Charles Clifford Gibbons Residence		June 1, 1990	2124 Bonsallo Ave. 34°01′58″N 118°16′37″W	West Adams	Queen Anne style house built in 1892, designed by J.H. Bradbeer
498	Lois Ellen Arnold Residence		June 12, 1990	1978 Estrella Ave. 34°02′00″N 118°16′31″W	West Adams - North University Park	Queen Anne style house built in 1888
499	Agnes B. Heimgartner Residence		June 12, 1990	1982 Bonsallo Ave. 34°02′01″N 118°16′35″W	West Adams	Eastlake style house built in 1893
500	John B. Kane Residence		June 12, 1990	2122 Bonsallo Ave. 34°01′58″N 118°16′36″W	West Adams - North University Park	Eastlake cottage built in 1892, designed by Fred R. Dorn
501	Michael Shannon Residence		June 12, 1990	1970 Bonsallo Ave. 34°02′02″N 118°16′34″W	West Adams - North University Park	Eastlake style townhouse built circa 1890
502	Collins-Furthmann Mansion		June 20, 1990	3691–3801 Lenawee Ave. 34°01′08″N 118°22′34″W	Baldwin Hills
507	Hiram V. Short Residence		November 2, 1990	2108–21101⁄2 Estrella Ave. 34°01′58″N 118°16′33″W	West Adams
510	Residence		January 11, 1991	1157 W. 55th St. 33°59′33″N 118°17′44″W	South Los Angeles
511	Residence		January 11, 1991	1100 W. 55th St. 33°59′31″N 118°17′38″W	South Los Angeles
512	Church of the Advent		January 16, 1991	4976 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′55″N 118°20′58″W	West Adams
513	Southern California Edison Service Yard Structure		January 15, 1991	615 E. 108th St. 33°56′18″N 118°15′52″W	South Los Angeles
516 (2708)	Saint John's Episcopal Church		January 22, 1991	514 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′39″N 118°16′31″W	West Adams	Romanesque Episcopal church built in 1925; now serves as Episcopal cathedral for Los Angeles
517	Residence		January 16, 1991	917 E. 49th Pl. 33°59′55″N 118°15′34″W	South Los Angeles
518	Residence		January 16, 1991	1207 E. 55th St. 33°59′35″N 118°15′14″W	South Los Angeles
519	Cockins House		February 1, 1991	2653 S. Hoover St. 34°01′49″N 118°17′03″W	West Adams
548	Korean Independence Memorial Building		October 2, 1991	1368 W. Jefferson Blvd. 34°01′31″N 118°17′49″W	Jefferson Park
551	Thomas W. Phillips Residence		November 13, 1991	2215 S. Harvard Blvd. 34°02′08″N 118°18′24″W	West Adams
560	Wright House		May 26, 1992	2121–2123 Bonsallo Ave. 34°01′59″N 118°16′38″W	West Adams
561	Allen House		May 26, 1992	2125 Bonsallo Ave. 34°01′58″N 118°16′38″W	West Adams
574	Pierce Brothers Mortuary		February 9, 1993	714 W. Washington Blvd. 34°02′07″N 118°16′29″W	West Adams - North University Park
578	Emmanuel Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church		May 25, 1993	4254–4260 3rd Ave. 34°00′20″N 118°19′12″W	Leimert Park
580	Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building		June 29, 1993	4261 S. Central Ave. 34°00′22″N 118°15′24″W	Central Avenue	Headquarters of one of the city's most successful African American-owned businesses starting in 1927; now a child development center. Architects: James Garrott and Louis Blodgett.
583	Zobelein Estate		September 21, 1993	3738–3770 S. Flower St. 34°00′58″N 118°16′54″W	Exposition Park	Built between 1937 and 1941, named "Sable Arms Apartments", designed by architect W.L. Schmolle in Mediterranean Style
591	Denker Estate		March 8, 1994	3820 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′56″N 118°19′38″W	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Two-story Beaux Arts style 1912 building designed by architect B. Cooper Corbett for Louise Denker, widow of hotel and real estate tycoon Andrew Denker.
598	Benjamin J. Waters Residence		September 27, 1994	2289 W. 25th St. 34°02′02″N 118°19′02″W	Arlington Heights	Victorian Colonial Revival style house built in 1899
599	Julius Bierlich Residence		September 27, 1994	1818 S. Gramercy Pl. 34°02′28″N 118°18′45″W	West Adams - Harvard Heights	2-story California Craftsman bungalow was designed by architect Frank M. Tyler in 1914.
600	Lucien and Blanche Gray Residence		September 27, 1994	2515–2519 4th Ave.	West Adams
601	Gramercy Park Homestead		September 27, 1994	2098–2108 W. 24th St. 34°02′04″N 118°18′43″W	Jefferson Park
602	Auguste R. Marquis Residence (Filipino Federation of America)		September 27, 1994	2300–2312 W. 25th St. 34°02′00″N 118°19′04″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
606	Kerckhoff House		November 1, 1994	730–746 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′45″N 118°16′45″W	West Adams - St. James Park
607	Powers Apartment#1		November 1, 1994	2325–2329 Scarff St. 34°01′57″N 118°16′50″W	West Adams
608	Powers Apartment#2		November 1, 1994	2326–2332 Scarff St. 34°01′56″N 118°16′48″W	West Adams - St. James Park
609	Powers Apartment#3		November 1, 1994	2308–23121⁄2 Scarff St. 34°01′58″N 118°16′47″W	West Adams - St. James Park
610	Shankland House		November 1, 1994	715 W. 28th St. 34°01′38″N 118°16′48″W	West Adams
620	Leimert Plaza		February 2, 1996	4395 Leimert Blvd. 34°00′08″N 118°19′51″W	Leimert Park
621	Alice Lynch Residence		March 6, 1996	2414 4th Ave. 34°02′05″N 118°19′15″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
625	Thomas Butler Henry Residence		June 21, 1996	1400 S. Manhattan Pl. 34°02′46″N 118°18′35″W	West Adams - Harvard Heights
626	Eyraud Residence		June 21, 1996	1326 S. Manhattan Pl. 34°02′47″N 118°18′35″W	Arlington Heights
627	John F. Powers Residence		June 21, 1996	1547 S. Manhattan Pl. 34°02′38″N 118°18′37″W	West Adams - Harvard Heights
654	Craftsman Mansion		September 18, 1998	4318 Victoria Park Pl. 34°02′45″N 118°19′47″W	West Adams - Victoria Park
658	Harry & Grace Wurtzel House		November 4, 1998	926 Longwood Ave.	Mid-Wilshire
662	Perrine House		June 22, 1999	2229 S. Gramercy Pl. 34°02′10″N 118°18′49″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
672	Percy H. Clark Residence		November 9, 1999	2639 S. Van Buren Pl. 34°01′53″N 118°17′50″W	West Adams
678	The Furlong House		April 25, 2000	2657 S. Van Buren Pl. 34°01′51″N 118°17′50″W	West Adams
679	Maverick's Flat		April 25, 2000	4225–42251⁄2 S. Crenshaw Blvd.	Leimert Park
688	Holiday Bowl		December 19, 2000	3730 S. Crenshaw Blvd. 34°01′09″N 118°20′05″W	Crenshaw	Founded in 1958 by five Japanese-Americans to rebuild the Nikkei community after World War II internment; torn down in October 2003.
705	Dryden Residence		December 18, 2001	3825 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′58″N 118°19′37″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
725	John G. Jones Lodge		October 1, 2002	5900 S. Broadway 33°59′11″N 118°16′40″W	South Los Angeles
726	Gilbert W. Lindsay Home		October 1, 2002	774 E. 52nd Pl. 33°59′41″N 118°15′40″W	South Los Angeles
744	Lincoln Theatre		March 18, 2003	2300 S. Central Ave. 34°01′13″N 118°15′13″W	South Los Angeles
754	First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles		June 3, 2003	1809 West Blvd. 34°02′26″N 118°20′14″W	Mid-City
757	Joseph Dupy Residence-South Seas Edwardian		July 29, 2003	2301 W. 24th St. 34°02′05″N 118°19′03″W	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
761	Kissam House		July 29, 2003	2160 W. 20th St. 34°02′18″N 118°18′39″W	Arlington Heights
764	Lady Effie's Tea Parlor		October 1, 2003	453 E. Adams Blvd. 34°01′22″N 118°15′49″W	South Los Angeles
774	Angelus Funeral Home		January 6, 2004	1028-1030 E. Jefferson Blvd. 34°00′42″N 118°15′25″W	South Los Angeles
776	Ray Charles Worldwide Offices and Studios		January 21, 2004	2107 W. Washington Blvd. 34°02′25″N 118°18′22″W	West Adams - Harvard Heights	The corner of Westmoreland and Washington Boulevards is known as "Ray Charles Square"
779	Michael J. Connell Carriage House		May 19, 2004	634 W. 23rd St. 34°01′51″N 118°16′31″W	West Adams
780	Bernays House		May 7, 2004	1656 W. 25th St. 34°02′00″N 118°17′57″W	West Adams
787	Fire Station 21		August 10, 2004	1187 E. 52nd St. 33°59′45″N 118°15′15″W	South Los Angeles
791	Betty Hill House		April 13, 2005	1655 W. 37th Pl. 34°01′12″N 118°18′28″W	Jefferson Park	Home of early 20th century African American activist Betty Hill (c. 1882–1960).
798	Mary E. Smith House		May 18, 2005	1186 W. 27th St. 34°01′48″N 118°17′10″W	West Adams
811	Tate-McCoy Homestead		July 8, 2005	1463–1469 S. Norton Ave. 34°02′40″N 118°19′30″W	Arlington Heights
818	J.R. Dennison House		July 13, 2005	1919 S. Harvard Blvd. 34°02′22″N 118°18′16″W	West Adams - West Adams Heights
819	Vista Magnolia Court		July 13, 2005	1201-1215 W. 27th St., 2671 S. Magnolia Ave.	West Adams
820	Williard J. Doran Residence		July 13, 2005	1194 W. 27th St. 34°01′48″N 118°17′11″W	West Adams
851	28th Street YMCA		September 27, 2006	1006 E. 28th St. 34°01′01″N 118°15′26″W	South Los Angeles
854	Cline Residence and Museum		October 11, 2006	1401-1409 S. Gramercy Pl. 34°02′45″N 118°18′48″W	West Adams - Harvard Heights
855	Statton Residence		October 11, 2006	1415 S. Gramercy Pl. 34°02′44″N 118°18′48″W	Arlington Heights
864	Life Magazine/Leimert Park House		March 27, 2007	3892 S. Olmstead Ave.	Leimert Park
865	Joseph L. Starr Farmhouse		April 11, 2007	2801 S. Arlington Ave.	West Adams - Jefferson Park
866	Glen Lukens Home and Studio		April 11, 2007	3425 W. 27th St. 34°01′51″N 118°19′19″W	West Adams - Jefferson Park
879	Louise Pratt House		July 17, 2007	2706 S. Menlo St. 34°01′48″N 118°17′24″W	West Adams - North University Park - Menlo Avenue–West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District
880	Bigelow-Wood Residence		July 17, 2007	2905 S. Hoover St. 34°01′40″N 118°17′03″W	West Adams
884	Waters-Shaw Family Residence		August 15, 2007	2700 S. Severance St. 34°01′44″N 118°16′53″W	West Adams
885	Holmes-Shannon House		August 15, 2007	4311 Victoria Park Dr. 34°02′47″N 118°19′45″W	West Adams - Victoria Park
924	Bigford Residence		July 2, 2008	1546 S. Fifth Ave.	Arlington Heights
968	Bethlehem Baptist Church		December 15, 2009	4901 Compton Ave. 33°59′53.79″N 118°14′53.25″W	South Los Angeles	Built 1944, only realized church by R. M. Schindler, has de Stijl style layers. "Rare example of Modernist architecture that crossed L.A.'s economic and racial boundaries."[8]
987	St. Philip the Evangelist Church		2010	2716 S. Stanford Avenue	South Los Angeles	Spanish Colonial Revival/Romanesque style; brightly colored stained glass windows and an original 1928 Skinner Opus 737 organ. Architects: Williams, Garrott & Young.
988	St. Philip the Evangelist Parish Hall		2010	2716 S. Stanford Avenue	South Los Angeles	many prominent African-Americans were church members
990	Hauerwaas Kusayanagi Residence		October 27, 2010	3741 W 27th Street	Jefferson Park	approved by city council action[9]
1000	Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building (1949)		June 1, 2011	1999 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Architect Paul R. Williams designed this six-story Late Moderne style commercial building in 1949, to house the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
1073	Charles C. Hurd Residence		August 12, 2014	4359 Victoria Park Place	West Adams - Victoria Park	Built in 1909, the Charles C. Hurd Residence is a single-family home built in the Arts & Crafts Tudor Revival Style
1253	Paul Revere Williams House		February 16, 2022	1271 W. 35th Street	Jefferson Park	Williams bought the home in 1921 and used it as his principal residence until he moved to Lafayette Park in 1952 [10][11]

Non-HCM sites also recognized

The Historic-Cultural Monuments listed above include many of the most important historic sites in South Los Angeles. In addition, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a U.S. National Historic Landmark in the region. Some other sites and historic districts within the South Los Angeles region have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places or designated as California Historical Landmarks, but were not also listed as HCMs. These are:

Code[12]	Landmark namevanbure	Image	Selected date	Locality	Neighborhood	Description[7]
(1010) (2348)	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Exposition Park			3911 S. Figueroa St. 34°00′50″N 118°17′16″W	Exposition Park
(1029)	Vermont Avenue Presbyterian Church			5300-5308 S. Vermont Ave. 33°59′38″N 118°17′28″W	South Los Angeles
(1032) (2712)	McCarty Memorial Christian Church		2002-01-17[13]	4101 W. Adams Blvd. 34°01′58″N 118°19′47″W	West Adams	Gothic Revival church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); founded in 1932 as a white congregation; integrated and became a multi-racial congregation in the mid-1950s
(2192)	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County			900 Exposition Blvd.	Exposition Park	Opened in 1913; fitted marble walls and domed and colonnaded rotunda; often used as filming location
(2300)	St. James Park Historic District			Roughly bounded by 21st and 23 Sts., Mount St. Mary's College, W. Adams Blvd. and Union Ave. 34°01′53″N 118°16′48″W	West Adams
(2301)	Twentieth Street Historic District			912-950 W. 20th St. 34°02′09″N 118°16′47″W	West Adams - North University Park
(2304)	Van Buren Place Historic District			2620-2657 Van Buren Pl. (both sides of street) 34°01′55″N 118°17′50″W	West Adams - Adams-Normandie HPOZ	Craftsman style homes built from 1903 to 1916 in 2600 block of Van Buren Place
(2307)	Exposition Park Rose Garden			900 Exposition Blvd.	Exposition Park	Sunken rose garden created in the 1920s, featuring more than 20,000 rose bushes and 200 varieties of roses
(2311)	Menlo Avenue-West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District			Bounded by Adams Blvd., Ellendale Pl., Thirtieth St., and Vermont Ave.	West Adams - North University Park
(2506)	Moneta Branch Library			4255 S. Olive St. 34°00′20″N 118°16′46″W	South Los Angeles
	Angelus Mesa Branch Library		1987-05-19	2700 W. 52nd St. 33°59′41″N 118°19′20″W	Angeles Mesa	Branch library; built in 1929
	Jefferson Branch		1987-05-19	2211 W. Jefferson Blvd. 34°1′20″N 118°18′59″W	Jefferson Park	Former branch library; built in 1923
	Helen Hunt Jackson Branch		1987-05-19	2330 Naomi St. 34°01′07″N 118°15′05″W	South Los Angeles	Former branch library; built in 1926; currently a church
	North University Park Historic District		2004-02-11	Roughly bounded by Hoover St., Adams Blvd, 28th St. and Magnolia Ave.	West Adams - North University Park	Historic district with many Victorian homes, also the birthplace of Adlai Stevenson II

See also

• Los Angeles portal

Lists of L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments

• Historic-Cultural Monuments in Downtown Los Angeles
• Historic-Cultural Monuments on the East and Northeast Sides
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in Silver Lake, Angelino Heights, and Echo Park
• Historic-Cultural Monuments on the Westside
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Wilshire and Westlake areas

Other

• City of Los Angeles' Historic Preservation Overlay Zones
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County
• List of California Historical Landmarks

References

1. The Los Angeles Department of City Planning also identifies Rocha House, Paul R. Williams House, and Gerry Building, as being in South Los Angeles, but those appear to be in South Robertson, Lafayette Square, Downtown Los Angeles, and neighborhoods, outside of what most would agree is the South Los Angeles area.
2. "Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum". National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14.
3. Lynch, Don; Cooper, Suzanne Tarbell; John, Kurtz (2008). "Introduction". Images of America - West Adams. Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-5920-9. Retrieved 24 December 2023. West Adams , an area roughly bounded by Figueroa Street, Jefferson Boulevard, Pico Boulevard and West Street.
4. "Locations of the Academy Awards Ceremonies". LA Almanac.
5. Numbers in 1-999 series are L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments; CHL numbers are state-designated California Historical Landmark sites; 2000 series denote LAHCM assigned numbers for federally designated sites. Blue colors represent higher designations as National Historic Landmarks and/or listing on the National Register of Historic Places; yellow represents sites that are L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments without a higher designation. No color represents information is unavailable or the monument has been delisted. To resort on this column, refresh your browser.
6. Department of City Planning. "Designated Historic-Cultural Monuments". City of Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
7. Various sources cited in articles, retrieved on various dates.
8. Office of Historic Resources, Newsletter, January 2010.
9. "PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT" (PDF). LACity.org. Retrieved 16 February 2023. APPROVE the recommendation of the CHC relative to the inclusion of the Hauerwaas-Kusayanagi Residence located at 37 41 West 27th Street in the list of Historic-Cultural Monuments.
10. Niland, Josh (February 17, 2022). "Paul R. Williams' first LA home finally gains historic monument status". Retrieved 17 February 2024.
11. "Historic Resource - Paul Revere Williams House 1271 W 35TH ST Report Date: February 16, 2024". Historic Places Los Angeles. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
12. Numbers in 1000 series denote LAHCM assigned numbers for state-designated sites; 2000 series denote LAHCM assigned numbers for federally designated sites. Blue colors represent higher designations as National Historic Landmarks and/or listing on the National Register of Historic Places. No color represents information is unavailable or the monument has been delisted. To resort on this column, refresh your browser.
13. National Register listing date

External links

• official Designated L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments (LAHCM) website — with 'ever-updated' LAHCM list via PDF link.
• Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM) Report for South Los Angeles
• City of Los Angeles Map — via Given Place Media.
• Big Orange Landmarks: "Exploring the Landmarks of Los Angeles, One Monument at a Time" — online photos and in-depth history of South Los Angeles L.A.H.C.Monuments — Website curator: Floyd B. Bariscale.