{"nrhp_refnum":"87000139","name":"Menlo Avenue-West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Adams Blvd., Ellendale, Thirtieth Ave., and Vermont","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.029994820500036,"lon":-118.28989755788331,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-02-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 42 building sites along Menlo Avenue and West 29th Street in the North University Park neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles, California. The contributing houses were built between 1896 and 1908.","why_significant":"The district preserves a largely intact group of turn-of-the-century wood-frame houses in Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and Classical Revival styles. Thirty of the 42 sites contribute, and most keep their distinguishing details. The surrounding area has lost most of its comparable older housing to apartment buildings and newer construction. The form's significance statement (Section 8) is not included in the supplied text, so this reflects the description section only.","narrative":"Menlo Avenue and West 29th Street in North University Park, Los Angeles, hold a district of 42 building sites, most of them large houses from the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty are counted as contributing, all built between 1896 and 1908, and they show Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and Classical Revival influences. The houses are wood frame, nearly all two to two and a half stories, and many keep scrollwork pediments, bracketed eaves, corbelled brick chimneys and shingle patterning. Edwin Rowley built several of them for resale, and architects Sumner P. Hunt and Wesley Eager designed the Crombie House. Early residents included businessmen, a physician and a girls' school. Over time many houses were divided into flats, some were damaged by fire or altered with siding and porch enclosures, and several were later restored. Nearby streets have lost most of their older homes to apartment buildings, which makes this block an unusually cohesive survivor.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Sumner P. Hunt and Wesley Eager (architects) and Alta Planing Mill Company (builder) for the R.S. Crombie House; Edwin S. Rowley built several houses for resale; D.A. Van Vranken (architect) for 1329 W. 29th Street; R.C. Thompson (builder) for 1346 W. 29th Street","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are basically intact and in fair to good condition. Some have been renovated, some neglected or fire-damaged, and many were subdivided into apartments. Three lots are vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.61416-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/87000139.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000139/62c6a22ac5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000139/62c6a22ac5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menlo_Avenue-West_Twenty-ninth_Street_Historic_District,_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:Menlo_Avenue-West_Twenty-ninth_Street_Historic_District,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859313","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Avenue%E2%80%93West_Twenty-ninth_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479223"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/menlo-avenue-west-twenty-ninth-street-historic-district-87000139/"}