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West Adams Terrace Photo by Larry Underhill

Los Angeles is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own unique character and community. The Conservancy works closely with community members, city staff, and elected officials to help ensure that our diverse neighborhoods retain the qualities that make them special and enhance quality of life for residents and visitors.

This section (see links above) describes the historic districts designated by the City of Los Angeles (known as Historic Preservation Overlay Zones, or HPOZs), and highlights resources for homeowners to use in maintaining and preserving their historic properties.

For more information, see the Preservation Resources section of this site or the Historic Preservation section of the City Planning Department's website.

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One of L.A.'s first suburbs, the hilltop residential area of Angelino Heights lies two miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, near the communities of Echo Park and Silver Lake. The area was planned as a respectable, genteel Victorian suburb for Los Angeles' late 19th-century upper-middle class. The first designated HPOZ in the city, Angelino Heights contains some of the best remaining examples of Victorian architecture in Los Angeles, as well as later examples of the Craftsman and Mission Revival styles. The 1300 block of Carroll Avenue is listed as a historic district in the National Register of Historic Places and contains the highest concentration of 19th-century Victorian homes in all of Los Angeles.