page_title: Wilshire Park, Los Angeles
section_title: History and landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Wilshire Park, Los Angeles / History and landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: Graph building activity between 1905 and 2006 in Wilshire Park
context_page_description: Wilshire Park is a residential district in the Central Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California.
context_section_description: Wilshire Park is a neighborhood of one- and two-story historic Dutch Colonial, Spanish Colonial, American Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Minimal Traditional, and Mediterranean style single-family homes, duplexes, and multi-family homes. on tree-lined streets of mature magnolias, oaks, and sycamores.
  
  The first recorded residence in Wilshire Park was built in 1908. The transitional Prairie School style home (right) is an example of the work of architect Lloyd Wright.  The neighborhood also features a 1938 apartment complex by the only female architect in Los Angeles at the time, by Edith Mortensen Northman. Most of Wilshire Park was fully built out by 1926. The graph shows the pattern of development. 
  There are three Wilshire Park homes designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments (LAHCM): the William J. Weber House, pictured above, designed by Lloyd Wright and built in 1921;  the A.W. Black Residence, designed by John Frederick Soper and built in 1913; and the William J. Hubbard Residence designed by Allen Kelly Ruoff and Arthur C. Munson, and built in 1923.
  The area has served as a film and television production location, dating back to the days of the 1925 Buster Keaton comedy classic Seven Chances.  With the 1960s, one Wilshire Park home (at 837 5th Avenue) attained TV immortality by serving as the exterior for the Douglas family home on the long-running series, My Three Sons.
caption: Year Built Graphs
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