"PICO UNION: LAYERS OF HISTORY"

The Marley Stone House (1896) Photo by Conservancy staff.

The Conservancy launched a partnership with the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency last year to bring awareness to the unique cultural and architectural heritage of the Pico Union neighborhood in Los Angeles. As part of the partnership, the Conservancy created a self-guided tour of the historic neighborhood and released it at a kick off event in March 2009. This brochure is now available to download so you too can take your friends and family on a tour!

Pico Union Self-Guided Tour Brochure (PDF)
Self-guided tour sites
Pico Union Community Profile

Kick off event on March 21, 2009 Photo by Conservancy staff.

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. The “Pico Union: Layers of History” self-guided tour celebrates the historic cultural diversity of the neighborhood and the architecture that embodies it.

Kids enjoyed face painting at the kick-off for the Pico Union self-guided tour.

Self-guided tour sites include:

Turn-of-the-century homes on S. Bonnie Brae Street. Photo by Larry Underhill.

Two National Register Historic Districts:
South Bonnie Brae Street, with a rare collection of intact Victorian-era homes; and Alvarado Terrace, with stately turn-of-the-twentieth century residences in a variety of styles among lush landscaping.

Murals:
Public art that provides the neighborhood with a rich sense of cultural identity, visual history, and collective expression.

Migration of the Golden People mural by Judy Baca (2002). Photo courtesy SPARC.