Sarah Lorenzen, AIA, and Plasmatic Concepts produced The Los Angeles River Film. Sarah writes: Our Los Angeles River Film is being screened at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival this weekend. The film is part of a series of talks and films entitled “Sustainable L.A.” Events will take place from noon until 10 pm. There [...]

The Capitol Milling Company, built in 1831, is the oldest extant manufacturer in Los Angeles. Located on North Spring Street in Chinatown, the flour mill’s wheels were originally powered by water from the Zanja Madre, which ran along Alameda and North Main Streets. The company is said to be the oldest privately owned company in [...]

Sponsored by the SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY and presented by the MOUNTAINS RECREATION & CONSERVATION AUTHORITY VISTA HERMOSA NATURAL PARK 100 N. Toluca Street Los Angeles, CA. 90026 Our newest park is now open with a spectacular view of the Los Angeles skyline. Our naturalist staff is excited to bring you fun nature programs and [...]

Agreement With Meruelo Maddux Comes Four Years After LAUSD Tried to Buy Taylor Yard Site for $27 Million by Ryan Vaillancourt DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $50 million to settle an eminent domain dispute with Meruelo Maddux Properties over a 23-acre Cypress Park site, Los Angeles Downtown [...]

The second oldest home in the city of Los Angeles, the original part was built by the Shoshonean Indians in 1834. Andres Pico, who oversaw the San Fernando Valley, took up residence here in 1845. Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign. Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

Located in the area known alternatively as Little Italy, Chinatown or Sonoratown, Casa Italiana is the community cultural center. Built in 1971, Casa Italiana neighbors other landmarks of the Italian community in Los Angeles, including Saint Peter’s Catholic Church. It is also home to a 1970s Alberto Biasi sculpture depicting the perils of immigration to [...]

Castelar Elementary School is the second oldest continuously operating school in Los Angeles. Built in Chinatown in the early 1880s, the school still occupies and uses one of its original structures. The Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield will bring much needed open space and recreation to the children of Castelar. There is [...]

Photograph by Nic Garcia. Finished in 2002 in downtown Los Angeles, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels serves the Archdiocese of over 4 million Catholics as the heart of 287 parish churches and communities. Sunday Mass is celebrated in 42 different languages in Los Angeles. See 360 degree panoramas of the nave , [...]

Chavez Ravine was a bucolic Latino community through the 1950s, until the City of Los Angeles forcibly evicted the residents with promises of affordable housing. Mrs. Aurora Archega, whose family had resided in Chavez Ravine for 36 years, refused to leave her home, and was carried out by the police, with all of her belongings, [...]

Resolution 8.04 – The Great Wall, the Heritage Parkscape, and Cultural and Historical Landmarks in Los Angeles This Resolution was Approved By the National Latino Congreso on October 8, 2007, and amended July 19, 2008. Whereas, the Great Wall of Los Angeles by Judy Baca and SPARC is one of the city’s great cultural landmarks [...]