Franklin Hills, Los Angeles
Franklin Hills | |
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 Franklin Hills neighborhood sign located on St. George Street at Tracy Street | |
  Franklin Hills Location in Northeast Los Angeles | |
| Coordinates: 34°06′25″N 118°16′37″W / 34.10694°N 118.27694°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  California |
| County | Los Angeles |
| City | Los Angeles |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP Code | 90027 |
| Area codes | 323 |
Franklin Hills is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. It is home to one Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
History
[edit]Franklin Hills is a residential neighborhood, set in the hills east of Los Feliz Village. The Los Angeles Times described it as a "diverse community" with a "collage of architectural styles".[2]
Franklin Hills is home to the Shakespeare Bridge. The ravine over which the bridge crosses was once a perennial stream called Arroyo de la Sacatela. To the east of the bridge is the Franklin Hills public stairway system, which provides pedestrian linkages among the curvy streets, a series of 14 staircases originally built in the 1920s to provide hillside homeowners pedestrian access to the trolley lines below.
Prospect Studios is on Talmadge Street. Opened in 1915 as the Vitagraph Studio, the lot later became the Warner Brothers Studios East Hollywood Annex, then home of the ABC Television Center and local affiliate KABC, finally becoming part of the Walt Disney Company in 1996.
Brothers Roy and Walt Disney both owned homes at the corner of Lyric Avenue and St. George Street [3] during the late 1920s so that they could walk to their new animation studio, located a few blocks away at 2719 Hyperion Avenue [3] (at the intersection of Hyperion and Griffith Park Boulevard).
Geography
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Franklin Hills is bounded on the north by Franklin Avenue and St. George Street, on the west by Talmadege Street, on the south by Fountain Avenue, and on the east by Tracy Street and Hyperion Avenue.[4]
Franklin Hills is bordered by Los Feliz Village on the west,[5] Silver Lake on the east, and East Hollywood on the south.
Landmarks and attractions
[edit]- Shakespeare Bridge - Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #126
- Prospect Studios - 4151 Prospect Avenue
Government
[edit]Franklin Hills is within the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council.[5] Section E comprises Franklin Hills and a few neighboring blocks on the west.[6][7]
Education
[edit]There is one public school within the Franklin Hills boundaries:
- Thomas Starr King Middle School - 4201 Fountain Avenue
Parks and recreation
[edit]- Franklin Hills Community Garden [8]
Notable residents
[edit]- Kalman Bloch, clarinetist [9]
- Roy O. Disney[3]
- Walt Disney[3]
- Kim Gordon, musician[10]
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor [11]
- Zoe Saldana, actor [12]
- Joey Waronker, drummer [13]
- Kristen Wiig, actor [14]
- Trevor Moore (comedian), comedian [15]
- Michele Zukovsky, clarinetist [16]
References
[edit]- ^ "Worldwide Elevation Finder".
- ^ Mothner, Linda Beth. "At Home: Diverse Franklin Hills". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
Franklin Hills is a diverse yet neighborhly community displaying a collage of architectural styles.
- ^ a b c d Cochran, Jason. "Walt Disney's Los Angeles". Frommers.com. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
The brothers commissioned a pair of matching homes on a hillside near their new studio... Walt lived in the one on the corner of St. George Street and Lyric Avenue, while Roy took the twin to the east.
- ^ Mothner, Linda Beth (September 28, 1997). "At Home: Diverse Franklin Hills". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
- ^ a b "Boundary Map". Los Feliz Neighborhood Council. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
- ^ "District E". Los Feliz Neighborhood Council. Archived from the original on July 3, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
Franklin Hills and a few other neighboring blocks comprise District E
- ^ "Interest Area District E". Los Feliz Neighborhood Council. Archived from the original on July 3, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
Franklin Hills, along with a few more of the streets lying directly to the West of it ("Franklin Hills adj.") makes up District E
- ^ "Franklin Hills Community Garden". franklinhillscommunitygarden.org. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
- ^ "L.A. Philharmonic's notable lead clarinetist scales down her career after 54 years - LA Times". Los Angeles Times. December 17, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ Williams, Alex (September 14, 2019). "Kim Gordon's Other Life". The New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ^ Fleming, Jack (February 7, 2020). "Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes a loss on Franklin Hills home". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
- ^ Berry, Eric D. "For Sale: Zoe Saldana Lists LA Home On Market". HipHollywood.com. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
newly married actress Zoe Saldana has listed her Franklin Hills home for sale with an asking price of $1.2 million
- ^ O'Connor, Pauline (November 15, 2019). "6 open houses to check out around LA this weekend". Curbed.com. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
The home of musician/producer Joey Waronker, this 1934 Spanish in Franklin Hills is loaded with beautiful period details
- ^ David, Mark (June 30, 2017). "Kristen Wiig Sheds Three-Story Home in L.A.'s Franklin Hills". Dirt.com. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
- ^ Paybarah, Azi (August 9, 2021). "Trevor Moore, a Founder of 'The Whitest Kids U' Know,' Dies at 41". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 4, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
- ^ NG, David (December 17, 2015). "L.A. Philharmonic's notable lead clarinetist scales down her career after 54 years". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
"I'm 72 and I don't look a day over 71!" she proclaimed during an interview at her Franklin Hills home, a simply furnished two-story house that she's owned for nearly 40 years.
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