Today's announcement by the California Office of Historic Preservation (OHP), a division of California State Parks, delivered highly favorable news for California parks and historic sites. Ten cities and counties will receive $184,500 in federal grants to assist local historic preservation programs. more ›

Over $200,000 was granted to nine historic preservation projects throughout the state today, with four being earned by local governments. Los Angeles was one of them, winning two $25,000 grants for the SurveyLA, which is the city's "comprehensive program to identify significant historic resources throughout" L.A. One of the grants will go towards a public participation and outreach plan for a handful of neighborhoods, including Silver Lake, Echo Park, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Brentwood and other neighborhoods. There are already over 950 historical monuments in Los Angeles. more ›

How does the idea of hilltop vistas, the quiet charm of tree-lined streets, and a quick and easy one mile trip on public transit to Downtown grab you? Well, it certainly proved an effective lure for the fresh-off-the-train Midwesterners settling in Los Angeles who flocked to our city's first suburb in the late 1880s. A real estate boom in 1887 saw the construction of numerous majestic Victorian homes in the new neighborhood, but a... more ›

About a hour ago, the LACityNerd posted "we're typing live from the SavingLA conference." The anonymous city blogger is out on the streets, possibly sitting next to you. We see it as a risk, but maybe red herrings are thrown in. We're suspecting that the nerd is Ken Bernstein, Director of the Office of Historic Preservation. Bernstein also happens to be speaking at today's event. "Ken's presentation is quite informative and worth staying past the... more ›

Anyone who’s logged onto google today (i.e. just about everyone who uses the internets) knows a little something about Frank Lloyd Wright. Whether or not you esteem him to be the Greatest American Architect of All Time, the prolific master, who died at the age of 92 and would’ve turned 138 today, designed a gorgeously innovative -- if often structurally flawed -- building or two or few hundred. more ›