{"nrhp_refnum":"91001387","name":"St. James Park Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Machell--Seaman House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by 21st and 23 Sts., Mount St. Mary's College, W. Adams Blvd. and Union Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.032885075500076,"lon":-118.28072087783013,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Engineering","Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in central Los Angeles, southwest of downtown and about half a mile northeast of USC, centered on St. James Park and the surrounding Scarff, Portland and 23rd/24th Street blocks. It holds about 107 resources, mostly houses and apartment buildings from 1887 to the early 1920s.","why_significant":"The district is described as the most intact segment of one of the city's largest collections of Victorian and transitional Craftsman-influenced architecture. Its Queen Anne/Eastlake, Craftsman and Colonial Revival buildings reflect middle and upper-middle class fashions from the late 1880s to the early 1920s. It also preserves the St. James Park subdivision and includes work by notable architects such as John Parkinson, John C. Austin and Arthur Benton.","narrative":"Centered on a small landscaped square laid out in 1887, this residential district sits just southwest of downtown Los Angeles. J. Downey Harvey subdivided the St. James Park Tract as a private residential park modeled on those of St. Louis and Washington, D.C. Surrounding streets, including Scarff, Portland and 23rd and 24th Streets, filled with houses and brick or stucco apartment buildings built between 1887 and the early 1920s. Roughly a quarter of the buildings are Queen Anne or Eastlake in design, about a fifth are Craftsman-influenced, and nearly another fifth are Colonial or Classical Revival. Architects represented include John Parkinson, who designed the Stearns-Dockweiler Residence in 1900, along with John C. Austin and Arthur Benton. The district is regarded as an unusually intact part of the West Adams corridor, with eleven properties already designated as city landmarks. Newer apartments and altered buildings are classed as non-contributing.","period_of_significance":"1887-1924","architect_builder":"John Parkinson, John C. Austin, August Wackerbarth, Arthur B. Benton (Aiken and Benton), Dennis & Farwell, Bradbeer & Ferris; builders include J. J. Riddell and John Zeller","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Continues in residential, commercial and park use; 11 properties are designated Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Landmarks, and 17 resources are non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.760736-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/91001387.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001387/3a811dd777-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001387/3a811dd777-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_27_St._James_Park,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859542","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Park,_Los_Angeles","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588519"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/st-james-park-historic-district-91001387/"}