Old House Journal

OLD NEIGHBORHOODS OF LOS ANGELES

sprawling metropolis with an emphasis on the new, Los Angeles retains charming old neighborhoods, 35 of them protected as Historic Preservation Overlay Zones. Find Victorians plus California Bungalows, Arts & Crafts houses, Mission and Spanish Colonial architecture, and period revivals from Colonial and Tudor to French Norman, along with early modernist-design houses. Here are just a

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