Hancock Park
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Hancock Park is strategically nestled between Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and downtown Los Angeles. It has several smaller communities with distinct identities, including Wilshire Park, Larchmont Village, and Windsor Square. It is bordered by Wilton Place, Melrose Avenue, Olympic Boulevard and La Brea Boulevard. It ranks as one of the most affluent, most established and most historic residential sections of Los Angeles.
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Once the most exclusive residential community in the city, Hancock Park was developed by Captain G. Allan Hancock circa 1910. His father, Henry Hancock, owned the entire Rancho La Brea area and ran it as a farm until 1905, when Edward Doheny struck oil shoveling into a hillside. The Hancock family then jumped in on the oil craze, which was quickly exhausted but which also led to the discovery of the La Brea Tar Pits. Besides the Doheny and Hancock families, many other prominent Southland families once owned (or still do) estates here, including the Huntington, Crocker and Van Nuys families.
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It is often dubbed the “Old Beverly Hills”. Some of the most prominent architects of the time the likes of Paul Williams and Wallace Neff built many of Hancock Park’s classic Spanish and Mediterranean style homes. Many feature ballrooms, butler's pantries, elevators, greenhouses and chauffeur's quarters. Most are set well back from the street in favor of vast, well-manicured front lawns that are complimented by tree-lined streets.
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Windsor Square runs from Wilshire to Beverly Boulevards, and from Arden Boulevard to Van Ness Avenue. This is includes the one-block strip of Larchmont Village, the retail district between First Street and Beverly Boulevard. Street names are English inspired e.g. Irving, Windsor and Plymouth. Lorraine Boulevard was named after the developer's daughter Lorraine Rowan. Paul Getty once owned an estate in in the Square that overlooks Wilshire County Club. He donated the house to the city and today it is the official residence of the Mayor of Los Angeles.
Larchmont Village is a neighborhood that is within Windsor Square. It is centered on Larchmont Boulevard between Beverly Boulevard and 3rd Street. Unlike its exclusive neighbors, Hancock Park and Windsor Square, Larchmont Village has smaller homes which have traditionally appealed to first-time buyers and families with young children. It has retained the scale and feel of the small town of Larchmont, New York, for which it was named in the early 1920's.
The community hub is quaint Larchmont Boulevard, a strip of upscale, trendy boutiques and alfresco dining. It serves as a Main Street retail district to Hancock Park and Windsor Square.
Fremont Place is close enough to Hancock park to be a part thereof. It is a privately owned park, and is one of Los Angeles' earliest planned subdivisions consisting of 73 homes. It is at the intersection of Wilshire and Rossmore Boulevards. Its boundaries are Muirfield Rd. and Lucerne Blvd. between Wilshire and Olympic boulevards. A gated and patrolled neighborhood, its homes are predominantly period revival ranging from modest to grand, mostly built in the 1920’s and 30’s.
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