HISTORIC RESOURCES SURVEY HOLLYWOOD REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA

HISTORIC RESOURCES SURVEY HOLLYWOOD REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA Prepared for Community Redevelopment Agency Prepared by Chattel Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Inc. 13417 Ventura Boulevard Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 February 2010 INTENSIVE HISTORIC RESOURCES SURVEY HOLLYWOOD REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA Prepared for Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles Prepared by Chattel Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Inc. February 2010 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Chattel Architecture, Planning & Preservation. Inc. Robert Chattel, Principal/Preservation Architect Jenna Snow, Senior Associate/Project Manager Shannon Ferguson, Senior Associate Gabrielle Harlan, Senior Associate Kathryn McGee, Associate II Veronica Gallardo, Junior Associate Justin Greving, Associate I Morgan Chee, Intern Allison Lyons, Intern Tanya Sorrell, Architectural Historian, LSA Associates, Inc TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 3 Project Area Description......................................................................................................... 3 Project Methodology ............................................................................................................... 5 Summary of Previously Surveyed and Designated Resources .............................................. 7 Regulator Setting.................................................................................................................... 8 Federal .............................................................................................................................. 8 National Register of Historic Places ............................................................................ 8 Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Treatment of Historic Properties ................ 10 State ................................................................................................................................ 10 California Register of Historical Resources ............................................................... 10 California Environmental Quality Act ......................................................................... 10 California Historical Resource Status Codes ............................................................ 12 Local................................................................................................................................ 13 City of Los Angeles Preservation Ordinance ............................................................ 13 SurveyLA ................................................................................................................... 14 Historic Context Statement ................................................................................................... 16 Survey Results .................................................................................................................... 128 Recommendations .................................................................................................................... References .......................................................................................................................... 130 Appendices Architects, Contractors, and Developers working in Hollywood California Historical Resources Status Codes Maps Tables INTRODUCTION Chattel Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Inc. (Chattel Architecture), as prime consultant, in collaboration with two subconsultants, LSA Associates, Inc. (LSA) and PCR Services Corporation (PCR), prepared historic context statements and intensive-level assessment surveys for three redevelopment project areas of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA) – Hollywood Redevelopment Project Area (Hollywood), Westlake Recovery Redevelopment Area (Westlake), and Wilshire Center/Koreatown Recovery Redevelopment Area (Wilshire/Koreatown). While Chattel Architecture had responsibility for the Hollywood Redevelopment Project Area, PCR took responsibility for Wilshire Center/Koreatown and LSA took responsibility for Westlake. To ensure consistency, the three firms discussed progress, difficulties, and worked out solutions in weekly conference calls. In addition, all work was peer reviewed by the other two firms. The City of Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources (OHR), in partnership with the Getty Conservation Institute, has been undertaking a citywide survey (SurveyLA), starting with a comprehensive historic context statement and survey field guide. Because of the timeline of the current effort and SurveyLA, the historic resource surveys for the CRA were not able to fully utilize SurveyLA technology. However, Chattel Architecture has worked closely throughout the process with the OHR staff in order to seamlessly dovetail findings into the citywide effort. The goal of updating historic context statements and field surveys is to evaluate properties for eligibility for local, state or national designation to focus effort on preserving those buildings that best illustrate the unique narratives of each community, while allowing for appropriate economic development. Hollywood had been previously surveyed three times with resulting inconsistencies between each of the surveys. The first historic resource survey was completed in 1986; a second historic resource survey took place in 1997, which updated findings of the earlier survey; and a third historic resource survey took place in 2003. Both the 1997 and 2003 surveys were reconnaissance level surveys, which is explained in National Register Bulletin #24, “Guidelines for Local Surveys: a basis for preservation planning,” as “a ‘once over lightly’ inspection of an area, most useful for characterizing its resources in general and for developing a basis for deciding how to organize and orient more detailed survey efforts.”1 In contrast, the 1986 and current surveys are intensive surveys, which are described in National Register Bulletin #24, as “designed to identify precisely and completely all historic resources in the area... It should produce all the information needed to evaluate historic properties and prepare an inventory.” PROJECT AREA DESCRIPTION The Hollywood Redevelopment Project is 1,107-acres in size and is located approximately six miles northwest of the Los Angeles Civic Center at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. 1 Anne Derry, H. Ward Jandl, Carol D. Shull, and Jan Thorman, National Register Bulletin #24, Guidelines for Local Surveys: a basis for preservation planning, (National Park Service, 1977), revised by Patricia L. Parker in 1985, . This bulletin is available at the web site, http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/nrb24/. ... - tailieumienphi.vn