{"nrhp_refnum":"81000155","name":"Los Angeles Pacific Company Ivy Park Substation","other_names":["Pacific Electric Railway Company,Culver Substation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9015 Venice Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.02620704900005,"lon":-118.39316684499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-03-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick power substation in Mission Revival style at 9015 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, built around July 1907 by the Los Angeles Pacific Company at the former junction of two interurban electric railway lines.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is likely the only remaining major Los Angeles Pacific Company structure with a substantially unaltered exterior, and one of the least-altered electric railway substations in Southern California. It also contributed to the history of transportation in the Los Angeles area. It is a good example of Mission Revival styling applied to a utilitarian industrial building.","narrative":"Built around 1907 by the Los Angeles Pacific Company, this brick substation at 9015 Venice Boulevard converted high-voltage alternating current into 600-volt direct current for electric railway cars and locomotives. It stands on a triangular lot where two interurban lines once met. The one-story building is faced in buff stucco and has a gabled roof with a skylight monitor, scalloped Mission Revival parapets, round-arched windows and a large arched doorway at each end. It was built after Southern Pacific interests took a majority stake in the company and upgraded the system, including heavier passenger cars that needed more power. It later served the Pacific Electric Railway and last supplied current to the Santa Monica Air Line, before equipment was removed in the early 1950s. Two other Los Angeles Pacific substations survive, but both are more altered. This building is considered the best-preserved example of its type and period, and a rare unaltered Mission Revival industrial building in Los Angeles County.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mission Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Unoccupied and vacant; windows are boarded, with some deterioration from lack of maintenance and vandalism. Electrical equipment was removed about 1954.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.358632-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/81000155.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000155/830d0f6555-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000155/830d0f6555-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Los_Angeles_Pacific_Company_Ivy_Park_Substation.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:Los_Angeles_Pacific_Company_Ivy_Park_Substation.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859287","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Substation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6099945"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/los-angeles-pacific-company-ivy-park-substation-81000155/"}