Leimert Park, Los Angeles

Leimert Park is a residential neighborhood in the south region of Los Angeles, California. It is a master planned community built in the 1920s with Spanish Colonial Revival homes and tree-lined streets. It is also considered the center of both rich historical and contemporary African American art, music, and culture in Los Angeles. The neighborhood is located in the park of the same name.

Jefferson Park flanks Leimert Park to the north, the Exposition Park neighborhood and Vermont Square are on the east, Hyde Park on the south and View Park-Windsor Hills and Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw on the west. Leimert Park angles to the West Adams district on the northwest. Leimert Park is bounded by Exposition Boulevard on the north, South Van Ness Avenue and Arlington Avenue on the east, West Vernon Avenue on the south and Victoria Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard on the west.

Leimert Park is named for its developer, Walter H. Leimert, who began the subdivision business center project in 1928. He had the master plan designed by the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm, of the sons of New York's Central Park landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted. Leimert Park was one of the first comprehensively planned communities in Southern California designed for upper and middle-income families. It was considered a model of urban planning for its time: automobile traffic near schools and churches was minimized, utility wires were buried or hidden from view in alleys, and densely planted trees lined its streets. Walter Leimert envisioned a self-sufficient commercial district community, with a town square, movie theatre, transportation, and retail shopping. Leimert Park became a desirable community, and one of the first to have a Home Owners' Association (HOA).

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