[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]This self-guided walking tour explores West Hollywood’s most historic and culturally significant landmarks. The Old Sherman neighborhood is a collection of sites that harken back to the earliest days of the city’s history. These buildings and sites played...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2589" img_size="full" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text]Look across the street at the brick sheriff station. This was the site of Sherman's baseball field, where the silent film Casey at the Bat was filmed in 1913. On the left side of...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]You are now standing at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Larrabee Street, which was the heart of Sherman's business district. Look across the street at 8851 Santa Monica Boulevard on the northwest corner of the...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2414" img_size="full" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text]Clustered along San Vicente Boulevard and Larrabee Street, between Santa Monica Boulevard to the south and Cynthia Street to the north, are remnants of Sherman’s oldest neighborhood, a 12 acre site platted in 1896....
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2407" img_size="full" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text]On Cynthia Street are several outstanding examples of CRAFTSMAN BUNGALOWS, most built between 1910 and 1930. The low roofed bungalow at 8867 Cynthia Street was built in 1912 for the local stationmaster of the Pacific...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Betty Way is perhaps Sherman's most intact street, with 13 out of its 14 houses dating to 1929-1930 . A narrow one-block lane ending in a quiet cul-de-sac, this one-acre tract was laid out in 1896. It is...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2621" img_size="full" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text]As you walk along these shady streets note the various housing styles. Overshadowed by multi-unit condos and apartment buildings, many bungalows from 1920’s -30’s survived and were remodeled playfully into MINI-MAISONETTES. Snuggled on tiny lots,...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2410" img_size="full" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text]THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH at 9025 Cynthia Street, which housed members of the Dutch Reform Church in 1924, is the only remaining church from the Town of Sherman. Noted especially for its stained glass windows,...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="2616" img_size="full" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text]One of the region’s most remarkable houses, THE LLOYD WRIGHT HOME AND STUDIO was designed in 1927 by Frank Lloyd Wright’s eldest son, who lived and worked at this site from 1927 until his...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Along this block note the variety of “decorator-ized” bungalows and landscaping. This unimposing neighborhood, close to Hollywood and Beverly Hills, has long attracted highly creative people-writers, artists, actors, musicians, and designers. Writer Dorothy Parker lived in the bungalow...
