Resources
Highland Park Heritage Trust is part of a larger family of organizations working in the community. For help in getting to know our historic region, take a look at the following alphabetically listed websites:
Arroyo Arts Collective
www.arroyoartscollective.org
Arroyo Seco Journal
Local monthly newsletter for the northeast LA area
www.arroyosecojournal.com
Arroyo Seco Foundation
All about the Arroyo Seco watershed, Southern California’s most celebrated canyon
http://www.arroyoseco.org
Boulevard Sentinel
An independent & free press for all of Northeast Los Angeles
www.boulevardsentinel.com
Charles J. Fisher, Historian
http://historian4hire.com/
The City of Los Angeles
www.lacity.org
City of Los Angeles Zoning Information and Map Access System (Zimas)
http://zimas.lacity.org/
The Eagle Rock Association
www.tera90041.org
Experience LA
www.experiencela.com
Friends of the Southwest Museum
www.friendsofthesouthwestmuseum.com
Gozaic
Connecting through places that matter: A dynamic online community for exploring heritage and cultural travel destinations and life-enriching experiences. Brought to you by Heritage Travel, Inc., a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
http://www.preservationnation.org
Heritage Square Museum
http://www.heritagesquare.org
Highland Park/Garvanza HPOZ Information
http://preservation.lacity.org/hpoz/la/highland-park-garvanza
Historical Society of Southern California
A history organization housed in the home of Charles Fletcher Lummis along the arroyo in Highland Park.
www.socalhistory.org
Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council
http://highlandparknc.com/site/
The Irvine Museum
18881 Von Karman Avenue
Ground Floor
Irvine, CA 92612
(949) 476-2565
Tuesday – Saturday 11AM to 5PM
http://www.irvinemuseum.org
The Judson Studios
www.judsonstudios.com
LA as Subject
LA as Subject is a research alliance dedicated to preserving and improving access to the raw material of Los Angeles history.
www.laassubject.org
Little Landers Historical Society
Bolton Hall Museum
10110 Commerce Ave.
Tujunga, CA 91043
Telephone 818-352-3420
Tuesdays and Sundays 1:00PM to 4PM
http://www.littlelandershistoricalsociety.org
Los Angeles Conservancy
An umbrella preservation organization serving greater Los Angeles. Their site has a very extensive list of preservation-related links.
www.laconservancy.org
Los Angeles Heritage Alliance
www.laheritage.blogspot.com
Lummis Day Community Foundation, Inc.
www.lummisday.org
Montecito Heights Improvement Association
www.montecitohts.org
Mt. Washington Association
www.mtwashington.org
National Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.preservationnation.org/
The Office of Historic Resources
http://preservation.lacity.org
Survey LA
SURVEY LA
My Historic LA
MyHistoricLA
Pasadena Heritage
Saving our past for the future
www.pasadenaheritage.org
Preservation Directory
www.preservationdirectory.com
Route 66 Mother Road Museum
www.route66museum.org
Southwest Museum
Los Angeles’ very first museum
www.southwestmuseum.org
Studio Root66
5917 N. Figueroa St
Highland Park, CA 90042
(323) 482-1414
www.studioroot66.com
Heritage Trust on Facebook
13 hours ago
The First Blocks of Whittier has reached out to HPHT to invite neighbors throughout NELA and the Eastside for a Valentines-themed community clean up on Feb 13th, 2022 from 9am-1pm. The meeting point is 2195 Whittier Blvd., LA CA 90023
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Representatives from each Oxy, HPHT, and ERVHS met earlier in January to Discuss next steps for the move of the NELA Archives from a shared storage unit in Eagle Rock to a new home at Occidental College over the Summer of 2022.![]()
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The team discussed locations within the Occidental College libraries where the archives could permanently be housed, and team members volunteered to help move the items.![]()
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The next team meeting is planned for March to allow arrangements to continue to be made, and also allow to pandemic conditions to hopefully become safer, especially since moving the archive will require in-person work.![]()
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In the meantime, here is a taste of just a few shelves of the archive, with decades worth of issues of the Eagle Rock Sentinel.![]()
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Updates about this effort have been made possible by a Neighborhood Purpose Grant from the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council
7 days ago
Sign the petition to support the restoration of the North Branch Stream at Sycamore Park! #SOS #SaveOurStream![]()
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"For several million years a gentle stream has flowed through the area that is now Sycamore Grove Park into the Arroyo Seco, a major tributary of the Los Angeles River. Occassionally a torrent would rush into the Arroyo. Few people remember that because eighty years ago flood engineers channelized the North Branch stream, which drains all Highland Park, into a buried concrete channel beneath the streets and the park.![]()
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Now the engineers from the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation are doing what they are accustomed to doing. Instead of cleaning up the stream they have trapped in a concrete strait-jacket, they are funneling the dry weather flow of the North Branch into their world's largest sewer."![]()
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www.arroyoseco.org/SycamoreGrovePark.htm?fbclid=IwAR3xR_1FrmrO-txN5XoH1m0KYHDOw8uw96icJ_QZxNXW-Vk...
www.arroyoseco.org
Sycamore Grove Park was officially established in 1905. The park has long been a popular recreational spot featuring well kept grass, picnic tables, and a bandshell for concerts. In the early days Syc...Sponsors
