"PICO UNION: LAYERS OF HISTORY" FREE Self-Guided Walking Tour Kick-Off & Community Fair
March 21, 2009 |
"PICO UNION: LAYERS OF HISTORY"
FREE Self-Guided Walking Tour Kick-Off & Community Fair
Saturday, March 21; 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Pico Union Branch Library,
1030 S. Alvarado St., Los Angeles 90006
Join us for the launch of the Conservancy's new self-guided walking tour of historic Pico Union. The event celebrates the rich architectural and social history of the Pico Union Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ). Volunteer docents will lead partial tours for this one-time affair.
Presented in partnership with the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency and the Pico Union branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, the event--the first of its kind in Pico Union--will include brief remarks by District 1 Councilmember Ed Reyes and a community fair with neighborhood organizations and resource providers.
Los Angeles has long been a city where people from across the nation and the world have come to reinvent themselves with dreams and hopes of a new life. Pico Union is one of Los Angeles’ most architecturally diverse neighborhoods, with a range of styles dating from the 1880s to the 1930s. “Pico Union: Layers of History” will celebrate the historic cultural diversity of the neighborhood and the architecture that embodies it.
Self-guided tour sites include: two National Register historic districts with intact Victorian-era and turn-of-the-century homes, historic landmarks designed by famous L.A. architects like Sumner Hunt, public art murals, important neighborhood organizations, and cultural references to Pico Union’s key role in L.A.’s Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s.
We hope you will join us for this exciting event!
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Website:
laconservancy.org/events/events_picotour.php4 |
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| Location Information |
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Pico Union Branch Library |
1030 S. Alvarado St.
Los Angeles, CA 90006 |
| Website:
www.lapl.org/maps/branch_googlemap.php?branchid=70 |
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| Contact Information |
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Constance Farrell |
| Email:
cfarrell@laconservancy.org |
| Phone:
213-623-2489 |
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