Resource Report

Historic Resource Summary

Names
1415 S MANHATTAN PL (Primary)
Important Dates
1906-01-01 (Built Date)
Images
1415 S MANHATTAN PL - PHOTO
Resource Types
Building
Architect
Builder
Owner

Location Information

Addresses
1415 S MANHATTAN PL Primary
Location Description
No descriptions recorded
Administrative Areas
South Los Angeles Community Plan Area (Community Plan Area)
Los Angeles City Council District 10 (Council District)
UNITED NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE HISTORIC ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, WEST ADAMS, AND JEFFERSON PARK COMMUNITY (Neighborhood Council)
HARVARD HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD (Neighborhood)

Resource Description

Classification
Type: Residential-Single Family, House   Use: Historic     Style: Craftsman Shingle     Related Features: Ancillary Building
Type: California OHP Resource Attribute - HP02. Single family property          
Features
No components recorded

Narrative Description

No description available
Alterations
Landscape/hardscape altered
No major alterations

Resource Significance

Evaluation Details

Date Evaluated
2012-03-05
Context/Theme
Architecture and Engineering, 1850-1980
Arts and Crafts Movement, 1895-1930
Craftsman, 1905-1930
Residential
Single-Family Residence
Eligibility Standards
  • Represents an early or rare example of the style in the community in which it is located
  • Broad front entry porches of half for full-width, with square or battered columns, sometimes second-story sleeping porches
  • Broad, overhanging eaves with exposed structural members such as rafter tails, knee braces, and king posts
  • Building forms that respond to the site
  • Typically double-hung windows or casement windows situated in groups
  • Double-hung windows
  • Extensive use of natural materials for columns, chimneys, retaining walls, and landscape features
  • If Chalet-influenced, then may have single, rectangular building forms, front-facing gabled roofs, second story balconies, flat balusters with decorative cutouts or decorative brackets and bargeboards
  • Low-pitched gabled roofs
  • Retains most of the essential physical features from the period of significance
  • Was constructed during the period of significance
  • Exhibits quality craftsmanship
  • Exemplifies the tenets of the Arts and Crafts movement and the Craftsman style
  • Shingled exteriors, occasionally clapboard or stucco
    • Integrity Aspects
    Feeling
    Association
    Workmanship
    Materials
    Setting
    Location
    Retains sufficient integrity to convey significance
    Design
    California Historic Resources Status Codes (explanation of codes)
    3CS
    3S
    5S3
    Significance Statement
    Excellent example of a Shingle style residence, grandly scaled and intricately detailed. Exhibits high quality design and craftsmanship.
    Periods of Significance
    From: 1906-01-01
    Date Evaluated
    2012-01-05
    Context/Theme
    Residential Development and Suburbanization, 1850-1980
    Early Residential Development, 1880-1930
    Early Single-Family Residential Development, 1880-1930
    Residential
    Single-Family Residence
    Eligibility Standards
  • Represents a very early period of settlement/residential development in a neighborhood or community
  • Is a rare surviving example of the type in the neighborhood or community
  • Dates from the period of significance
  • Retains most of the essential physical and character-defining features from the period of significance
  • Often sited in a prominent location
  • May be within an area later subdivided and built out
  • Has an important association with early settlement or residential development within a neighborhood or community
    • Integrity Aspects
    Design
    Materials
    Workmanship
    Feeling
    Association
    Location
    Retains sufficient integrity to convey significance
    California Historic Resources Status Codes (explanation of codes)
    3S
    3CS
    5S3
    Significance Statement
    Excellent example of early residential development in the area. One of few intact turn-of-the-century residences in an area that has seen a lot of late 20th-century infill.
    Periods of Significance
    From: 1906-01-01

    External References

    External System References

    SurveyLA ID: bc2bcb6b-ff1c-443f-82f8-af6cda1cfa6f
    Property Identification Number: 129B193 1520
    House ID: 625504

    Related Resources

    Related Historic Resources

    None

    Related Historic Districts

    None

    Related Activities

    SurveyLA - South Los Angeles Survey (was assessed in / assessed)

    Related Historic Events

    None

    Related People/Organizations

    Architectural Resources Group (Surveying Firm, was surveyed by / surveyed)

    Related Information Resources

    Images
    Documents
    SurveyLA: South Los Angeles Historic Resources Survey Report (Document/Text, is referred to in / refers to)

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