List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles explained

This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles, California. In total, there are over 144 Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCM) in the South Los Angeles region, which includes the West Adams, Exposition Park, and University of Southern California campus areas. It also includes historic sites in Watts (including Simon Rodia's Watts Towers), Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw, Jefferson Park, and Leimert Park. Further, certain historic sites in Arlington Heights, Harvard Heights and Mid-City neighborhoods below Washington Boulevard are identified by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning as being in South Los Angeles, and are included here.^[1] They are designated by the city's Cultural Heritage Commission. There is also a separate list below identifying other historic sites in the area that have not been designated as HCMs, but which have been recognized as California Historical Landmarks or have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Overview of the Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles

National Historic Landmarks: South Los Angeles includes some of the city's most historic sites, including three National Historic Landmarks. The sites receiving this high designation are: (1) the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, built in 1923, and used as the principal site of the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games;^[2] (2) the Watts Towers (HCM #15), a collection of 17 interconnected structures, two of which reach heights of over 99 feet (30 m), built by Italian immigrant construction worker Simon Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954; and (3) Baldwin Hills Village (HCM #174), an innovative planned community built in the 1930s with large open grassy areas and trees.

West Adams: A significant concentration of historic sites in the South Los Angeles region are in the West Adams district, which stretches "roughly from Figueroa Street on the east to West Boulevard on the west, and from Pico Boulevard on the north to Jefferson Boulevard on the south."^[3] . The West Adams district was one of the city's most affluent areas from the 1890s through the 1920s. Many of the area's mansions, Victorian homes, and American Craftsman bungalows have been preserved. The area's 70 Historic-Cultural Monuments include some of the city's most renowned landmarks, such as the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (HCM #28) operated by UCLA and the Frederick Hastings Rindge House (HCM #95) built by a Bostonian who owned all of Malibu.

Jefferson Park: Through the 20th century, Jefferson Park was variously settled by Japanese-American, African-American, and Louisiana Creole communities. The neighborhood is known for its concentration of historic American Craftsman houses, and a section of the neighborhood is a City of Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ). Notable Historic-Cultural Monuments include the Westminster Presbyterian Church (HCM #229), and the Jefferson Branch Library.

USC, Exposition Park, and North University Park: To the east of West Adams and Jefferson Park is the campus of the University of Southern California, Exposition Park, and the neighborhood of North University Park, which contains the North University Park Historic District and the Menlo Avenue–West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District. The important sites in these neighborhoods include the L.A. Coliseum, the Shrine Auditorium (HCM #139) (the site of eleven Academy Awards ceremonies between 1947 and 2001),^[4] the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, oil baron Edward Doheny's Chester Place mansion (HCM #30), the castle-like Stimson House (HCM #212) that survived a dynamite attack in 1896, the picturesque Victorian Forthmann House (HCM #103), the Exposition Park Rose Garden, USC's Widney Hall (HCM #70) (the oldest university building in Southern California, in continuous use since 1880), and the birthplace of two-time U.S. presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson (HCM #35).

Vermont Square, Watts and South L.A.: This area includes the city's oldest library building, the Vermont Square Branch (HCM #264), built in 1913 in the Vermont Square neighborhood. It is an Italian Renaissance style building with Prairie style proportions built with a grant from Andrew Carnegie. The Watts Station was designated as a Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #36) shortly after the Watts Riots in 1965. The old wooden railway station, built in 1904, was the only building along Watts' main thoroughfare (which became known as "Charcoal Alley") to survive the riots. The station became a symbol of continuity, hope and renewal for the Watts community. Also in South Los Angeles is the Ralph J. Bunche House (HCM #159). The boyhood home of Ralph J. Bunche, the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, it has been preserved as a museum.

Churches: Many of the city's most recognizable churches are also located in southern Los Angeles, including the domed Second Church of Christ Scientist (HCM #57), the second Catholic church in the city to be consecrated, St. Vincent de Paul (HCM #72), the city's Episcopal cathedral, Saint John's, its Greek Orthodox cathedral, Saint Sophia (HCM #120), the Gothic McCarty Memorial Christian Church, which became one of the first white Protestant churches to be racially integrated in the 1950s, the Lombard Romanesque Second Baptist Church (HCM #200) designed in 1925 by noted African-American architect, Paul R. Williams, and the Richardsonian Romanesque First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Cathedral (HCM #341).

African-American Music History: The area also includes sites that have played an important role in the city's musical history. The Ray Charles Worldwide Offices and Studios were designated as a Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #776) in 2004, and the Dunbar Hotel (HCM #70) was at the center of the thriving Central Avenue jazz scene in the 1930s and 1940s. After hosting the first national convention of the NAACP to be held in the western United States, the Dunbar hosted Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Lena Horne and other jazz legends. Former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson also ran a nightclub at the Dunbar in the 1930s. And the Lincoln Theatre (HCM #744), built in 1927, was once the crown jewel of Central Avenue, referred to by some as the West Coast's version of New York City's Apollo Theater.

Current and former Historic-Cultural Monuments

width=1%	HCM #^[5]	width="18%"	Landmark name^[6]	Image	width="4%"	Date designated	width="12%"	Locality	width="12%"	Neighborhood	Description^[7]
	15 (1027) (2373)	Towers of Simon Rodia (Watts Towers)			1765 E. 107th St.	Watts	Towers constructed by Italian immigrant Simon Rodia between 1921 and 1954
18	Hyde Park Congregational Church (site of)			6501 Crenshaw Blvd.	Hyde Park	Tiny wooden church with two front-corner towers; demolished in 1964; delisted 1/1/1964
	28	William Andrews Clark Memorial Library			2520 Cimarron St.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	Renaissance Revival building completed in 1926; designed by Robert D. Farquhar
	30	Oliver G. Posey-Edward L. Doheny Residence			8 Chester Pl.	West Adams	Mansion purchased in 1901 by oil businessman Edward L. Doheny; designed by Eisen & Hunt; now part of Mount St. Mary's College campus
	35	Birthplace of Adlai E. Stevenson II			2639 Monmouth Ave.		Site of birthplace of two-time U.S. presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II
	36 (2372)	Watts Station			1686 E. 103rd St.	Watts	Electric railway station built in early 1900s; the only building along the area known as "Charcoal Alley" to survive the Watts Riots
	57 (2364)	Second Church of Christ Scientist, Los Angeles			946 - 948 West Adams Blvd.	West Adams - North University Park	Built in 1910 and designed by Alfred Rosenheim, purchased by the Art of Living foundation in 2009
	70 (1025)	Widney Hall (Alumni Hall)			650 Childs Way	USC Campus	Oldest university building in Southern California, in continuous use since 1880
	72	Automobile Club of Southern California			2601 S. Figueroa St.	West Adams	Spanish colonial headquarters building erected in 1922; designed by Sumner Hunt and Silas Reese Burns
	90	St. Vincent de Paul Church			621 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Second Roman Catholic church in Los Angeles to be consecrated; designed by Albert C. Martin Sr.
	95 (2363)	Rindge House			2263 S. Harvard St.	West Adams	Mansion built in 1906 for Frederick H. Rindge; designed by Frederick Roehrig in Chateauesque style
	103	Forthmann House (and Carriage House)			2801 S. Hoover Blvd.		Victorian house built in the 1880s; designed by Burgess J. Reeve; relocated in 1989 from original location
	117	Residence			2218 S. Harvard Blvd.	West Adams	American Colonial Revival House built in approximately 1905
	120	Saint Sophia Cathedral			1324 S. Normandie Ave.	Byzantine-Latino Quarter	Greek Orthodox cathedral designed by Kalionzes, Klingerman & Walker in the Byzantine style, dedicated in 1952
	127	Exposition Club House			3990 Menlo Ave.	Exposition Park	Spanish Colonial Revival building completed in 1920s in Exposition Park
	128	Hancock Memorial Museum			3616 University Ave.	USC Campus	Large mansion built by the Hancock family at Wilshire Blvd. and Vermont Ave., circa 1900; razed in 1938, though four rooms were moved in their entirety to the USC campus
	131 (2366)	Dunbar Hotel (Somerville Hotel)			4225 S. Central Ave.	Central Avenue	Focal point of the Central Avenue African-American community in the 1930s and 1940s.
	139 (2315)	Shrine Auditorium			665 W. Jefferson Blvd.	West Adams - North University Park	Theater seating 6,700 is one of the largest in the United States and was the prior site of the Academy Awards. Also known as Al Malaikah Temple.
	159 (2321)	Ralph J. Bunche House			1221 E. 40th Pl.	South Los Angeles	Home of Nobel Peace Prize winner in his youth
	174	Village Green (Baldwin Hills Village)			5112 - 5595 Village Green	Baldwin Hills	Urban housing project completed in 1942 featuring extensive grassy areas and open spaces, which was designed by Reginald D. Johnson, Wilson and Merril, Robert E. Alexander. AIA 1972 award.
179	Residence (site of)			919 W. 20th St.	West Adams - Twentieth Street Historic District	Site of Queen Anne Victorian house built in 1908; demolished in 1978
185	President's House (site of)			7851 Budlong Ave.	South Los Angeles	Mission style house built in 1912 (now the location of the Crenshaw Christian Center Faith Dome)
	197 (2319)	Britt House			2141 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	Classical Revival house built in 1910, designed by Alfred F. Rosenheim; used today as the headquarters of the LA84 Foundation
	200	Second Baptist Church			2412 Griffith Ave.	South Los Angeles	Lombard Romanesque church built in 1925, designed by Paul R. Williams; long a hub of the African American community
	212 (2367)	Stimson House			2421 S. Figueroa St.	West Adams	Richardsonian Romanesque mansion; built in 1891; originally home of lumber and banking millionaire; survived a dynamite attack by a blackmailer in 1896; later occupied by a brewer, a fraternity house, student housing and a convent
	214	Mount Carmel High School (former site)			7011 S. Hoover St.	South Los Angeles	Spanish Revival style Catholic high school built in 1934. Demolished in 1983.
	229	Westminster Presbyterian Church			2230 W. Jefferson Blvd.	Jefferson Park	First African American Presbyterian congregation in Los Angeles; Spanish Revival style structure built in 1904
	230 (2362)	Villa Maria (Ramsay-Durfee House)			2425 S. Western Ave.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	Tudor Revival mansion designed by Frederick Louis Roehrig and built in 1908; bought by Brothers of St. John of God in 1978
	240	Residence			2703 S. Hoover St.	West Adams	Queen Anne style home built circa 1891, designed by Bradbeer and Ferris
	241	Sunshine Mission			2600 S. Hoover St.	West Adams	Built in 1893, it has housed an experimental kindergarten, a prep school for girls, the headquarters of the Dianetics Foundation, and the Sunshine Shelter for homeless women; also known as Casa de Rosas
	242 (2354)	Miller and Herriott Tract House			1163 W. 27th St.		Eastlake style house built in 1890, designed by Bradbeer and Ferris
	258	Fitzgerald House			3115 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	Italian Gothic style house built in 1903, designed by Joseph Cather Newsom
	264 (2371)	Vermont Square Branch Library			1201 W. 48th St.	Vermont Square	Oldest branch library in Los Angeles; built in 1913 as a Carnegie library; designed by Hunt & Burns in Beaux Arts style with Italian Renaissance influence
	273	Durfee House			1007 W. 24th St.	West Adams - St. James Park	Eastlake style 2-story wood-frame house built, circa 1885, for Richmond Durfee and his wife.
	295	A. E. Kelly Residence			1140 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Queen Anne Victorian house built in the 1890s; fish-scale shingles on second floor
	296	John C. Harrison Residence			1160 W. 27th St.	West Adams	Queen Anne Victorian house built in 1891 with a three-story tower and wrap-around porch
	297	West Adams Gardens			1158-1176 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Grouping of seven two-story Tudor Revival residential structures built in 1920, designed by L.A. Smith
	300	Casa Camino Real			1828 Oak St.	West Adams - North University Park	Eclectic structure built in 1923, designed by Morgan, Walls & Morgan; Beauz Arts exterior with elements of Art Deco and Spanish Revival styles
	305 (2358)	John Muir Branch Library			1005 W. 64th St.	South Los Angeles	Italian Renaissance style branch library built in 1930, designed by Henry F. Withey (Ed. note: List of RHPs in L.A. states this built in 1920, here states 1930, which is it?)
	306	Original Vernon Branch Library (site of)			4504 S. Central Ave.	South Los Angeles	Branch library that housed large collection of books on African American history
	307 (2342)	Washington Irving Branch Library			1803 S. Arlington Ave.	Arlington Heights	Lombardic Richardsonian Romanesque library branch built in 1926, designed by Allison & Allison
	330	Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery			1831 W. Washington Blvd.	West Adams	Cemetery opened in 1884 with pioneer families and 19th century funerary architecture; first in the West to operate a crematorium
	331	Pacific Bell Building			2755 W. 15th St.	West Adams - Harvard Heights	Spanish Mission style garage with Churrigueresque details built, circa 1922
	335	Henry J. Reuman Residence			925 W. 23rd St.	West Adams - St. James Park	Queen Anne and Colonial Revival transitional style house built, circa 1898, designed by August Wackerbarth
	341	First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Cathedral & Community Center			1449 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Richardsonian Romanesque cathedral built in 1930 for the West Adams Presbyterian Church, designed by architects H.M. Patterson and George W. Kelham
	344	Institute of Musical Art			3210 W. 54th St.	Leimert Park	Music school and recording studio founded in 1922
	349 (2330)	Fire Station No. 18			2616 S. Hobart Blvd.	West Adams
	350	Ecung-Ibbetson House and Moreton Bay Fig Tree			1190 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Richardsonian Romanesque and Victorian home built in 1899
	407	Seyler Residence			2305 Scarff St.	West Adams - St. James Park	Queen Anne style Victorian home built in 1894, designed by Abraham M. Edelman
	408 (2351)	Machell-Seaman House			2341 Scarff St.	West Adams - St. James Park	Asymmetrical Queen Anne style Victorian home built in 1888
	409	Burkhalter Residence			2309 - 2311 Scarff St.	West Adams - St. James Park	Queen Anne style Victorian home built in 1895
	410	Distribution Station No. 31			1035 W. 24th St.	West Adams - St. James Park	Industrial building designed by staff architects at Pacific Gas & Electric Company, built in 1925
	417	Gordon L. McDonough House			2532 5th Ave.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace	American Craftsman style house built in 1908, designed by architect Frank M. Tyler
	419	Walker Mansion			3300 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Grand Craftsman style mansion with Tudor, Mediterranean and Mission Revival influences
	434	Colonel John E. Stearns Residence			27 St. James Park	West Adams - St. James Park	Classical Revival house built in 1900, designed by architect John C. Parkinson
	455	Margaret T. and Bettie Mead Creighton Residence			2342 Scarff St.	West Adams - St. James Park	Colonial Revival style house built in 1896
	456	Ezra T. Stimson House			839 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Tudor Revival house built in 1901, designed by architect Frederick Roehrig
	457	Freeman G. Teed House			2365 Scarff St.	West Adams - St. James Park	American Craftsman style house built in 1893
	458	Wells-Halliday Mansion			2146 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Dutch Colonial style house built in 1901; Craftsman style wing built in 1909
	466	Henry J. Foster Residence			1030 W. 23rd St.	West Adams - St. James Park	Queen Anne style house built circa 1889
	467	Chalet Apartments			2375 Scarff St.	West Adams - St. James Park	Two-story, 19-unit apartment complex built in 1913; designed by Frank M. Tyler with the appearance of a single-family house
	477	Briggs Residence			3734 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Alpine Craftsman style house built in 1912, designed by Hudson & Munsell with steep, cross-gabled roof
	478	Guasti Villa-Busby Berkeley Estate			3500 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Beaux Arts – Italian Renaissance style mansion, designed by Hudson & Munsell; purchased in 1936 by Busby Berkeley; now operated as the "Peace Awareness Labyrinth Gardens"
	479	Dr. Grandville MacGowan Home			3726 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Alpine Craftsman style mansion with Tudor Revival influences, built in 1912 and designed by Hudson & Munsell
	487	Sanchez Ranch			3725 Don Felipe Dr.	Leimert Park	Adobe structures once part of the Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera, built in 1790
	489	Richard H. Alexander Residence			2119 Estrella Ave.	West Adams	Two-story Eastlake style house built circa 1888
	496	Lycurgus Lindsay Mansion			3424 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Mission Revival style house built circa 1900 with tiles from Western Art Tile works owned by Lycurgus Lindsay; house designed by Charles Whittlesey
	497	Charles Clifford Gibbons Residence			2124 Bonsallo Ave.	West Adams	Queen Anne style house built in 1892, designed by J.H. Bradbeer
	498	Lois Ellen Arnold Residence			1978 Estrella Ave.	West Adams - North University Park	Queen Anne style house built in 1888
	499	Agnes B. Heimgartner Residence			1982 Bonsallo Ave.	West Adams	Eastlake style house built in 1893
	500	John B. Kane Residence			2122 Bonsallo Ave.	West Adams - North University Park	Eastlake cottage built in 1892, designed by Fred R. Dorn
	501	Michael Shannon Residence			1970 Bonsallo Ave.	West Adams - North University Park	Eastlake style townhouse built circa 1890
	502	Collins-Furthmann Mansion			3691 - 3801 Lenawee Ave.	Baldwin Hills
	507	Hiram V. Short Residence			2108 - 2110 Estrella Ave.	West Adams
	510	Residence			1157 W. 55th St.	South Los Angeles
	511	Residence			1100 W. 55th St.	South Los Angeles
	512	Church of the Advent			4976 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams
	513	Southern California Edison Service Yard Structure			615 E. 108th St.	South Los Angeles
	516 (2708)	Saint John's Episcopal Church			514 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Romanesque Episcopal church built in 1925; now serves as Episcopal cathedral for Los Angeles
	517	Residence			917 E. 49th Pl.	South Los Angeles
	518	Residence			1207 E. 55th St.	South Los Angeles
	519	Cockins House			2653 S. Hoover St.	West Adams
	548	Korean Independence Memorial Building			1368 W. Jefferson Blvd.	Jefferson Park
	551	Thomas W. Phillips Residence			2215 S. Harvard Blvd.	West Adams
	560	Wright House			2121 - 2123 Bonsallo Ave.	West Adams
	561	Allen House			2125 Bonsallo Ave.	West Adams
	574	Pierce Brothers Mortuary			714 W. Washington Blvd.	West Adams - North University Park
	578	Emmanuel Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church			4254 - 4260 3rd Ave.	Leimert Park
	580	Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building			4261 S. Central Ave.	Central Avenue	Headquarters of one of the city's most successful African American-owned businesses starting in 1927; now a child development center. Architects: James Garrott and Louis Blodgett.
	583	Zobelein Estate			3738 - 3770 S. Flower St.	Exposition Park	Built between 1937 and 1941, named "Sable Arms Apartments", designed by architect W.L. Schmolle in Mediterranean Style
	591	Denker Estate			3820 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams - Jefferson Park	Two-story Beaux Arts style 1912 building designed by architect B. Cooper Corbett for Louise Denker, widow of hotel and real estate tycoon Andrew Denker.
	598	Benjamin J. Waters Residence			2289 W. 25th St.	Arlington Heights	Victorian Colonial Revival style house built in 1899
	599	Julius Bierlich Residence			1818 S. Gramercy Pl.	West Adams - Harvard Heights	2-story California Craftsman bungalow was designed by architect Frank M. Tyler in 1914.
	600	Lucien and Blanche Gray Residence			2515 - 2519 4th Ave.	West Adams
	601	Gramercy Park Homestead			2098 - 2108 W. 24th St.	Jefferson Park
	602	Auguste R. Marquis Residence (Filipino Federation of America)			2300 - 2312 W. 25th St.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
	606	Kerckhoff House			730 - 746 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams - St. James Park
	607	Powers Apartment#1			2325 - 2329 Scarff St.	West Adams
	608	Powers Apartment#2			2326 - 2332 Scarff St.	West Adams - St. James Park
	609	Powers Apartment#3			2308 - 2312 Scarff St.	West Adams - St. James Park
	610	Shankland House			715 W. 28th St.	West Adams
	620	Leimert Plaza			4395 Leimert Blvd.	Leimert Park
	621	Alice Lynch Residence			2414 4th Ave.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
	625	Thomas Butler Henry Residence			1400 S. Manhattan Pl.	West Adams - Harvard Heights
	626	Eyraud Residence			1326 S. Manhattan Pl.	Arlington Heights
	627	John F. Powers Residence			1547 S. Manhattan Pl.	West Adams - Harvard Heights
	654	Craftsman Mansion			4318 Victoria Park Pl. 34.0458°N -118.3297°W	West Adams - Victoria Park
	658	Harry & Grace Wurtzel House			926 Longwood Ave.	Mid-Wilshire
	662	Perrine House			2229 S. Gramercy Pl.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
	672	Percy H. Clark Residence			2639 S. Van Buren Pl.	West Adams
	678	The Furlong House			2657 S. Van Buren Pl.	West Adams
	679	Maverick's Flat			4225 - 4225 S. Crenshaw Blvd.	Leimert Park
	688	Holiday Bowl			3730 S. Crenshaw Blvd.	Crenshaw	Founded in 1958 by five Japanese-Americans to rebuild the Nikkei community after World War II internment; torn down in October 2003.
	705	Dryden Residence			3825 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
	725	John G. Jones Lodge			5900 S. Broadway	South Los Angeles
	726	Gilbert W. Lindsay Home			774 E. 52nd Pl.	South Los Angeles
	744	Lincoln Theatre			2300 S. Central Ave.	South Los Angeles
	754	First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles			1809 West Blvd.	Mid-City
	757	Joseph Dupy Residence-South Seas Edwardian			2301 W. 24th St.	West Adams - West Adams Terrace
	761	Kissam House			2160 W. 20th St.	Arlington Heights
	764	Lady Effie's Tea Parlor			453 E. Adams Blvd.	South Los Angeles
	774	Angelus Funeral Home			1028-1030 E. Jefferson Blvd.	South Los Angeles
	776	Ray Charles Worldwide Offices and Studios			2107 W. Washington Blvd.	West Adams - Harvard Heights	The corner of Westmoreland and Washington Boulevards is known as "Ray Charles Square"
	779	Michael J. Connell Carriage House			634 W. 23rd St.	West Adams
	780	Bernays House			1656 W. 25th St.	West Adams
	787	Fire Station 21			1187 E. 52nd St.	South Los Angeles
	791	Betty Hill House			1655 W. 37th Pl.	Jefferson Park	Home of early 20th century African American activist Betty Hill (c. 1882–1960).
	798	Mary E. Smith House			1186 W. 27th St.	West Adams
	811	Tate-McCoy Homestead			1463 - 1469 S. Norton Ave.	Arlington Heights
	818	J.R. Dennison House			1919 S. Harvard Blvd.	West Adams - West Adams Heights
	819	Vista Magnolia Court			1201-1215 W. 27th St., 2671 S. Magnolia Ave.	West Adams
	820	Williard J. Doran Residence			1194 W. 27th St.	West Adams
	851	28th Street YMCA			1006 E. 28th St.	South Los Angeles
	854	Cline Residence and Museum			1401-1409 S. Gramercy Pl.	West Adams - Harvard Heights
	855	Statton Residence			1415 S. Gramercy Pl.	Arlington Heights
	864	Life Magazine/Leimert Park House			3892 S. Olmstead Ave.	Leimert Park
	865	Joseph L. Starr Farmhouse			2801 S. Arlington Ave.	West Adams - Jefferson Park
	866	Glen Lukens Home and Studio			3425 W. 27th St.	West Adams - Jefferson Park
	879	Louise Pratt House			2706 S. Menlo St.	West Adams - North University Park - Menlo Avenue–West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District
	880	Bigelow-Wood Residence			2905 S. Hoover St.	West Adams
	884	Waters-Shaw Family Residence			2700 S. Severance St.	West Adams
	885	Holmes-Shannon House			4311 Victoria Park Dr. 34.0464°N -118.3292°W	West Adams - Victoria Park
	924	Bigford Residence			1546 S. Fifth Ave.	Arlington Heights
	968	Bethlehem Baptist Church			4901 Compton Ave. 33.9983°N -118.2481°W	South Los Angeles	Built 1944, only realized church by R. M. Schindler, has de Stijl style layers. "Rare example of Modernist architecture that crossed L.A.'s economic and racial boundaries."^[8]
	987	St. Philip the Evangelist Church		2010	2716 S. Stanford Avenue	South Los Angeles	Spanish Colonial Revival/Romanesque style; brightly colored stained glass windows and an original 1928 Skinner Opus 737 organ. Architects: Williams, Garrott & Young.
	988	St. Philip the Evangelist Parish Hall		2010	2716 S. Stanford Avenue	South Los Angeles	many prominent African-Americans were church members
	990	Hauerwaas Kusayanagi Residence		October 27, 2010	3741 W 27th Street	Jefferson Park	approved by city council action^[9]
	1000	Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building (1949)			1999 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Architect Paul R. Williams designed this six-story Late Moderne style commercial building in 1949, to house the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
	1073	Charles C. Hurd Residence			4359 Victoria Park Place	West Adams - Victoria Park	Built in 1909, the Charles C. Hurd Residence is a single-family home built in the Arts & Crafts Tudor Revival Style
	1253	Paul Revere Williams House			1271 W. 35th Street	Jefferson Park	Williams bought the home in 1921 and used it as his principal residence until he moved to Lafayette Park in 1952 ^[10] ^[11]

Non-HCM sites also recognized

The Historic-Cultural Monuments listed above include many of the most important historic sites in South Los Angeles. In addition, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a U.S. National Historic Landmark in the region. Some other sites and historic districts within the South Los Angeles region have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places or designated as California Historical Landmarks, but were not also listed as HCMs. These are:

width=1%	Code^[12]	Landmark namevanbure	Image	Selected date	Locality	Neighborhood	Description
	(1010) (2348)	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Exposition Park			3911 S. Figueroa St.	Exposition Park
	(1029)	Vermont Avenue Presbyterian Church			5300-5308 S. Vermont Ave.	South Los Angeles
	(1032) (2712)	McCarty Memorial Christian Church		2002-01-17^[13]	4101 W. Adams Blvd.	West Adams	Gothic Revival church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); founded in 1932 as a white congregation; integrated and became a multi-racial congregation in the mid-1950s
	(2192)	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County			900 Exposition Blvd.	Exposition Park	Opened in 1913; fitted marble walls and domed and colonnaded rotunda; often used as filming location
	(2300)	St. James Park Historic District			Roughly bounded by 21st and 23 Sts., Mount St. Mary's College, W. Adams Blvd. and Union Ave.	West Adams
	(2301)	Twentieth Street Historic District			912-950 W. 20th St.	West Adams - North University Park
	(2304)	Van Buren Place Historic District			2620-2657 Van Buren Pl. (both sides of street)	West Adams - Adams-Normandie HPOZ	Craftsman style homes built from 1903 to 1916 in 2600 block of Van Buren Place
	(2307)	Exposition Park Rose Garden			900 Exposition Blvd.	Exposition Park	Sunken rose garden created in the 1920s, featuring more than 20,000 rose bushes and 200 varieties of roses
	(2311)	Menlo Avenue-West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District			Bounded by Adams Blvd., Ellendale Pl., Thirtieth St., and Vermont Ave.	West Adams - North University Park
	(2506)	Moneta Branch Library			4255 S. Olive St.	South Los Angeles
		Angelus Mesa Branch Library		1987-05-19	2700 W. 52nd St.	Angeles Mesa	Branch library; built in 1929
		Jefferson Branch		1987-05-19	2211 W. Jefferson Blvd.	Jefferson Park	Former branch library; built in 1923
		Helen Hunt Jackson Branch		1987-05-19	2330 Naomi St.	South Los Angeles	Former branch library; built in 1926; currently a church
		North University Park Historic District		2004-02-11	Roughly bounded by Hoover St., Adams Blvd, 28th St. and Magnolia Ave.	West Adams - North University Park	Historic district with many Victorian homes, also the birthplace of Adlai Stevenson II

See also

Lists of L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments

• Historic-Cultural Monuments in Downtown Los Angeles
• Historic-Cultural Monuments on the East and Northeast Sides
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in Silver Lake, Angelino Heights, and Echo Park

• Historic-Cultural Monuments on the Westside
• Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Wilshire and Westlake areas

Other

• City of Los Angeles' Historic Preservation Overlay Zones
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County
• List of California Historical Landmarks

External links

• official Designated L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments (LAHCM) website — with 'ever-updated' LAHCM list via PDF link.
• Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM) Report for South Los Angeles
• City of Los Angeles Map — via Given Place Media.
• Big Orange Landmarks: "Exploring the Landmarks of Los Angeles, One Monument at a Time" — online photos and in-depth history of South Los Angeles L.A.H.C.Monuments — Website curator: Floyd B. Bariscale.

Notes and References

1. The Los Angeles Department of City Planning also identifies Rocha House, Paul R. Williams House, and Gerry Building, as being in South Los Angeles, but those appear to be in South Robertson, Lafayette Square, Downtown Los Angeles, and neighborhoods, outside of what most would agree is the South Los Angeles area.
2. Web site: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . National Park Service . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071114222329/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1884&ResourceType=Structure . 2007-11-14 .
3. Book: Lynch . Don . Cooper . Suzanne Tarbell . John . Kurtz . Images of America - West Adams . 2008 . . 978-0-7385-5920-9 . 7 . 24 December 2023 . Introduction . West Adams, an area roughly bounded by Figueroa Street, Jefferson Boulevard, Pico Boulevard and West Street..
4. Web site: Locations of the Academy Awards Ceremonies. LA Almanac.
5. Numbers in 1-999 series are L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments; CHL numbers are state-designated California Historical Landmark sites; 2000 series denote LAHCM assigned numbers for federally designated sites. Blue colors represent higher designations as National Historic Landmarks and/or listing on the National Register of Historic Places; yellow represents sites that are L.A. Historic-Cultural Monuments without a higher designation. No color represents information is unavailable or the monument has been delisted. To resort on this column, refresh your browser.
6. Web site: Department of City Planning . Designated Historic-Cultural Monuments . City of Los Angeles . 2010-06-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100609160708/http://www.preservation.lacity.org/monuments . 2010-06-09 .
7. Various sources cited in articles, retrieved on various dates.
8. Office of Historic Resources, Newsletter, January 2010.
9. Web site: PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT . LACity.org . 16 February 2023 . APPROVE the recommendation of the CHC relative to the inclusion of the Hauerwaas-Kusayanagi Residence located at 37 41 West 27th Street in the list of Historic-Cultural Monuments..
10. News: Niland . Josh . Paul R. Williams' first LA home finally gains historic monument status . 17 February 2024 . February 17, 2022.
11. News: Historic Resource - Paul Revere Williams House 1271 W 35TH ST Report Date: February 16, 2024 . 17 February 2024 . Historic Places Los Angeles.
12. Numbers in 1000 series denote LAHCM assigned numbers for state-designated sites; 2000 series denote LAHCM assigned numbers for federally designated sites. Blue colors represent higher designations as National Historic Landmarks and/or listing on the National Register of Historic Places. No color represents information is unavailable or the monument has been delisted. To resort on this column, refresh your browser.
13. National Register listing date