Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zone

Lafayette Square, established in 1913, was the last and greatest of banker George L. Crenshaw’s ten residential developments in Los Angeles.

The residential area south of the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Blvd, a Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, comprises 1,347 properties built primarily the 1920s, ‘30s, and ‘40s in a variety of Period Revival styles.