View Park Historic District
View Park-Windsor Hills, California, is a unique blend of history, culture, nature, and modern comforts.
In The 1920s
View Park was designed for white professionals and their families. The houses had large front yards, and many had servants' quarters and swimming pools. Before View Park was fully developed, it was the site of the first Olympic Village, built to house all the athletes of the 1932 Olympic Games in one location.
Before View Park was fully developed, it was the site of the first Olympic Village, built to house all the athletes of the 1932 Olympic Games in ...
In the 1960s as whites moved out and black professionals began moving in, View Park, Windsor Hills, and Baldwin Hills became collectively known
As a subdivision of View Park earned its nickname the #BBH "Black Beverly Hills" Becoming one of the largest, wealthiest
The View Park area was developed in the 1970s as an upper-class neighborhood akin to the style of Cheviot Hills, Bel-Air, and Brentwood.
View Park was largely white into the 1960s. Then the Supreme Court lifted covenants that barred nonwhite homeowners, and the first wave of
View Park-Windsor Hills is one of the wealthiest primarily African-American areas in the United States. ... This corridor also includes Baldwin Hills.
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Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles has a rich history, including its origins as part of a Mexican rancho, the development of communities in the 1920s, and the construction of the Baldwin Hills Reservoir:
* Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera In 1843, Governor Manuel Micheltorena granted 4,481.5 acres of land to Vicente Sánchez, which included the area that is now Baldwin Hills. The name translates to "Swamp or Pass of the Scissors" and refers to the trail that cut through the hills, which resembled open scissors. By 1886, Elias J. “Lucky” Baldwin, a 19th-century pioneer, had acquired most of the land.
* Development of communities In the 1920s, communities began to develop in the rolling hills of South Los Angeles. The area was known for its oil derricks and conflicts between syndicates, and it also had a reputation for being a dump site for a murder, peat fires, and a narcotics ring meet-up place.
* Baldwin Hills Reservoir Construction on the Baldwin Hills Reservoir took place between 1947 and 1951. On December 14, 1963, the dam that held the reservoir's 250 million gallons of water breached, killing five people and causing around $11 million in property damage. The reservoir is now part of the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, and a plaque was placed at the site in 2013 to mark the 50th anniversary of the disaster.
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Baldwin Hills has also been home to the first Olympic Village, built in 1932 for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The area is now an upscale neighborhood with nice views, and has been home to celebrities like Ray Charles and Tina Turner.
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