Harvard Heights, Los Angeles, California
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 Harvard Heights, as delineated by the Los Angeles Times |
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| Coordinates: 34°2′36″N 118°18′15″W / 34.04333°N 118.30417°W |
Harvard Heights is a densely populated, mixed-income neighborhood of 20,000+ people in Central Los Angeles, California. Within in it lies a municipally designated historic overlay zone designed to protect its architecturally significant single-family residences, including the only remaining Greene and Greene house in Los Angeles.
The neighborhood has one private and two public schools. It is the site of a private library dedicated to the memory of singer Ray Charles.
In 1997, historian Leonard Pitt and writer/editor/indexer Dale Pitt described Harvard Heights as a
neighborhood between Western and Normandie Avenues and Pico and Washington Boulevards. It was part of the West Adams district, a middle-class area annexed by the city of Los Angeles early in the century. Two-story Craftsman-style Victorian homes still abound there.
Since 2000, the City of Los Angeles Planning Department and Office of Historic Resources has defined the Harvard Heights historic neighborhood as encompassing 34 blocks comprised predominantly of single-family residences, some multiple-family residences, as well as commercial properties. The designated historic zone lies between Pico Boulevard on the north, Washington Boulevard to the south, Normandie Avenue on the east and Western Avenue on the west.
The Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times defines Harvard Heights as a broader area, flanked by Koreatown to the north, Pico-Union to the east, Adams-Normandie and Jefferson Park to the south and Arlington Heights to the west. The street boundaries are given as north: Pico Boulevard; east: Normandie Avenue; south: Washington Boulevard; and west: Western Boulevard.
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