Wilton Historic District

Wilton Historic District is a compact residential neighborhood in Los Angeles along S. Wilton Place, S. Wilton Drive and S. Ridgewood Place, between First and Third Streets. It contains 63 single-family houses dating from 1907 to 1925, along with two built in the mid-1930s. About half are two-story Craftsman bungalows, and most of the rest are Colonial Revival bungalows. Other houses show Mission, Tudor, Dutch Colonial, Classical Revival and Prairie influences. Architects named include Frank M. Tyler, H. J. Knauer and H. H. Whiteley, and several houses were built by contractors or owners. The neighborhood was planned as an upper-middle-class area on the northwestern edge of the city. About half of the houses predate World War I, and nearly all the rest followed within a decade after it. Houses sit on larger than normal lots raised above the street, and no significant alterations have changed the buildings or the area, giving the district an unusually cohesive appearance.