{"nrhp_refnum":"04000016","name":"North University Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Hoover St., Adams Blvd, 28th St. and Magnolia Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.026114649500045,"lon":-118.28499096811069,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-02-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 15.65 acres in Los Angeles, near the University of Southern California, roughly bounded by Hoover Street, Adams Boulevard, 28th Street and Magnolia Avenue. It was developed between 1887 and 1929 and has 66 buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as significant for architecture, with a coherent collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century houses and apartment buildings. They share similar scale, setbacks and materials such as clapboard, shingles and stucco. Of the 66 buildings, 58 contribute to its character.","narrative":"North University Park is a five-block residential neighborhood southwest of downtown Los Angeles, close to the University of Southern California. Built between 1887 and 1929, it holds 66 buildings, mostly one- and two-story houses and apartment buildings, of which 58 contribute to the historic character. Queen Anne houses sit alongside Turn of the Century cottages, American Foursquare houses, English and Mediterranean Revival buildings and Craftsman homes. Several were designed by the firm Bradbeer & Ferris, and a number have been designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. The district holds together because the buildings are similar in scale, follow a common setback and are clad in many of the same materials, including clapboard, shingles and stucco. Three smaller groupings stand out: Vista Magnolia Court, the English Revival apartments on West Adams Gardens, and the Foursquare houses on Magnolia Avenue. Mature Canary Island date palms, a large Moreton Bay fig and diamond-scored sidewalks survive as historic landscape features.","period_of_significance":"1887-1929","architect_builder":"Various, including Bradbeer & Ferris, Thomas Preston, Edward Harlamert and E. B. Rust; others unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Eastlake); Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals (Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival); Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Residential area still in domestic use; some individual buildings have been rehabilitated or altered, and eight buildings are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.824509-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/04000016.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000016/eed1e2abc9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000016/eed1e2abc9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_2703_S._Hoover,_Los_Angeles.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_2703_S._Hoover,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859355","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_University_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7057085"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/north-university-park-historic-district-04000016/"}