Elysian Heights, Los Angeles

Elysian Heights is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.

Geography
Elysian Heights is bounded by the hills just north of Sunset Boulevard on the south, Glendale Boulevard on the west, Elysian Park on the east, and the 5 Freeway on the north.

History
Elysian Heights started out as a summer getaway. The neighborhood has been home to many of the counter-culture, political radicals, artists, writers, architects and filmmakers in Los Angeles. The children of many progressives attended school there during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. By the 1930s, it was known as Red Hill, for the communists thought to live there.

In 2005, the Los Angeles chapter of the Sierra Club sponsored the "Elysian Heights Stairway Walk".

Education

 * Elysian Heights Elementary School - 1562 Baxter Avenue

Historic-Cultural Monuments
The following Historic-Cultural Monuments are located in Eylsian Heights:


 * Ross House − 2123 N. Valentine Street. On September 23, 2009 it became Historic-Cultural Monument #964

Notable buildings

 * Southhall house, designed by Rudolph Schindler
 * Philip Dike house
 * Harwell Hamilton house
 * Paul Landacre house
 * Estelle Lawton Lindsey house
 * Carey McWilliams house
 * Klock House
 * Atwater bungalows - Adobe bungalows designed by Robert Stacy-Judd

Notable residents
Elysian Heights was home to "Room 8 the Cat".