Alvarado Terrace Historic District
Alvarado Terrace Historical District is a designated historic district southwest of Downtown Los Angeles, located along Alvarado Terrace between Pico Boulevard and Alvarado Street. Six homes and a church in the district were designated as Historic-Cultural Monuments in 1971, and the entire district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Read more about Alvarado Terrace Historic District: Early History, Terrace Park and Powers Place, Six Homes Designated As Cultural Historic Monuments, First Church of Christ, Scientist and The Peoples Temple, National Register of Historic Places
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