LSA ASSOCIATES, INC. JUNE 2011
HISTORIC RESOURCES SURVEY CORNFIELD ARROYO SECO SPECIFIC PLAN AREA CITY OF LOS ANGELES
Albion Street Community Planning Area The Albion Street Community Conservation Area is part of the core area that historically represented the Italian immigrant community in Los Angeles. This area is a small part of a larger section of Los Angeles which extends to the Plaza, the area now known as Chinatown, and Lincoln Heights formed a nucleus where Italian families settled from the earliest days of the Pueblo through much of the 20th century. Italian and Mexican families worked in nearby rail yards and factories, lived in the residential blocks, and attended neighborhood schools like Albion Street School. The conservation area consists of the Chavez tract and neighboring residential blocks, neighborhood markets such as the Lanza Brothers Market and Garcia Brothers Market, churches such as the First Italian Baptist Church (now Centro Cristiano Internacional) and the Mexican Four Square Gospel (now Gethsemane Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostes), and the Albion Street School. The Albion Cottages and Milagro Market (HCM #442) are also part of this conservation area. The Albion Street Community Conservation Area was considered for inclusion with the Lincoln Heights HPOZ, but the survey team concluded that the physical separation presented by I-5 diminishes the neighborhood’s sense of continuity with Lincoln Heights, and does not on its own represent significant themes in the Residential Development and Suburbanization Context.
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