Burbank has transformed its approach to historic preservation by making significant improvements to its program since 2009. The city completed a citywide survey and historic context statement in that year, adopted the popular Mills Act program in 2010, and has begun to designate local landmarks. The city updated its historic resource management ordinance in 2011, […]

Alpine Village is the first legacy business to be designated a County historic landmark.

Vernon does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. This industrial city, comprised almost solely of commercial and industrial buildings, contains a wealth of architecturally significant buildings, yet no historic resource surveys have been conducted. Despite lacking any historic preservation policies, the City designated St. Martha’s Catholic Church as a local landmark in 1981 through […]

Join the Conservancy for a guided walking tour through the historic neighborhood of Westwood-Holmby, or “Little Holmby

Agoura Hills does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. While the City has focused attention on maintaining and operating the ca. 1850s Reyes Adobe, a significant, City-owned historic resource, Agoura Hills has not yet enacted policies aimed at protecting privately owned, historic resources. A few of the city’s older structures in the Old Agoura Overlay […]

The City of Industry does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. This largely industrial city owns and funds the operation of the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, which consists of the Workman House, a nineteenth century adobe; Casa Nueva, a Spanish Colonial Revival residence; and El Campo Santo, one of the oldest cemeteries […]

Cudahy does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. This 1.2 square mile city located in southeast Los Angeles County conducted a citywide residential survey in 1984 that identified 21 structures.  While no survey updates have been completed since that time, the City has expressed interest in conducting an update in the near future.  Working […]