{"nrhp_refnum":"84000783","name":"Alvarado Terrace Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Alvarado Terr., Bonnie Brae and 14th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.04509789400004,"lon":-118.28145952299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Los Angeles, California, made up of 15 buildings (12 contributing, 3 non-contributing) around a landscaped park and a brick-paved street. The large houses were designed and built between 1902 and 1906 on a hillslope above Terrace Park.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the finest early 20th century residential districts in Los Angeles. It argues the district is notable for architectural quality, integrity, historical associations and a site plan on a curving street. The houses were designed by prominent local architects for leading citizens, and they show Craftsman and Period Revival styles of the decade.","narrative":"Alvarado Terrace is a small neighborhood of large early 1900s houses arranged around Terrace Park and a curving, brick-paved street in Los Angeles. Fifteen buildings make up the district, twelve of which contribute to its character. Most of the houses were built between 1902 and 1906 for prominent local residents and were designed by architects such as Hunt and Eager, Hudson and Munsell, and Arthur L. Haley. Their styles include Craftsman, Queen Anne, Shingle, Tudor-influenced and Colonial Revival. The tract was subdivided in 1902 by Doria Jones, who set minimum building costs to keep the quality high. In 1904 the city bought the park land, with the help of council president Pomeroy Powers, who lived on the street. Seven houses are designated city monuments. The district has kept most of its original character. The main intrusion is a five-story apartment building added in 1928. Together, the houses, park and Powers Place form a cohesive ensemble of the area's first decade of development.","period_of_significance":"1902-10","architect_builder":"Multiple architects including Charles E. Shattuck, Hudson and Munsell, Hunt and Eager, Arthur L. Haley, R. R. Wilcox and William Allen (see item 7)","architectural_style":"Craftsman and Period Revival modes, including Queen Anne, Tudor-influenced Craftsman, Shingle Style, Colonial Revival and Mission Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent, altered, original site; occupied. Some single-family houses were divided into apartments, and one house (No. 14) was stuccoed over its original siding. A 1928 apartment house is the major intrusion.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.65533-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/84000783.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000783/b81b7ee3a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000783/b81b7ee3a4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_1333_Alvarado_Terrace,_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_1333_Alvarado_Terrace,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858913","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarado_Terrace_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4737882"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/alvarado-terrace-historic-district-84000783/"}