A Photography Project
When retired Army Col. John Porter settled in Poway in 1948, he had a dream: revitalize Old Poway. Through the years, he acquired and built the start of a historic village that the City completed as Old Poway Park after his death in 1979.
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The first Santa Fe Railroad Depot in San Dimas opened in 1889, but was destroyed by fire in 1933. The current building replaced it in 1934 and operated until 1961. The building was repurposed as a museum by the Pacific Railroad Society.
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Just up the hill from the widely-known Carroll Avenue in the Angeleno Heights area of Los Angeles, a sign on Kellam Avenue advises visitors of the “Highest Concentration of Victorian Residences” with references to five LAHCMs.
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Founded in 1971 by J.B. Nethercutt in a 60K sq ft, 6-floor tower on his estate, the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar was expanded in 2000 with the 40K sq ft Nethercutt Museum, regarded as one of the greatest car museums in the world.
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The Minerva Park Place Historic District in Long Beach, a narrow street lined with 16 Spanish Colonial Revival homes, was established in 1989 to preserve the houses built by street resident and building contractor Frank Smith in 1925.
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The Leonis Adobe in Calabasas, one of the oldest surviving residences in the San Fernando Valley, was built some time in the 1840s. Acquired in the mid-1800s by Miguel Leonis, it was where he and his wife, Espiritu, moved in the 1870s.
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Plummer House was built in 1874 in what would become West Hollywood by Eugene Raphael Plummer on land his family had homesteaded next to Rancho La Brea. The “Oldest House in Hollywood” was saved when it was moved to Calabasas in 1983.
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