Franklin Hills, Los Angeles
Franklin Hills is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. It is home to one Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
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 | |
| 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 |
History
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".[1]
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 Disney Corporation in 1996.
Brothers Roy and Walt Disney both owned homes at the corner of Lyric Avenue and St. George Street [2] during the late 1920s so that they could walk to their new animation studio, located a few blocks away at 2719 Hyperion Avenue [2] (at the intersection of Hyperion and Griffith Park Boulevard).
Geography
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.[3]
Franklin Hills is bordered by Los Feliz Village on the west,[4] Silver Lake on the east, and East Hollywood on the south.
Landmarks and attractions
- Shakespeare Bridge - Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #126
- Prospect Studios - 4151 Prospect Avenue
Government
Franklin Hills is within the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council.[4] Section E comprises Franklin Hills and a few neighboring blocks on the west.[5][6]
Education
There is one public school within the Franklin Hills boundaries:
- Thomas Starr King Middle School - 4201 Fountain Avenue
Parks and recreation
- Franklin Hills Community Garden [7]
Notable residents
- Kalman Bloch, clarinetist [8]
- Roy O. Disney[2]
- Walt Disney[2]
- Kim Gordon, musician[9]
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor [10]
- Zoe Saldana, actor [11]
- Joey Waronker, drummer [12]
- Kristen Wiig, actor [13]
- Michele Zukovsky, clarinetist [14]
References
- Mothner, Linda Beth. "At Home: Diverse Franklin Hills". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
Franklin Hills is a diverse yet neighborhly community displaying a collage of architectural styles.
- Cochran, Jason. "Walt Disney's Los Angeles". Frommers.com. Retrieved 31 July 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 1 August 2022.
- "Boundary Map". Los Feliz Neighborhood Council. Retrieved 2022-08-01.
- "District E". Los Feliz Neighborhood Council. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
Franklin Hills and a few other neighboring blocks comprise District E
- "Interest Area District E". Los Feliz Neighborhood Council. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
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 31 July 2022.
- "L.A. Philharmonic's notable lead clarinetist scales down her career after 54 years - LA Times". Los Angeles Times. 17 December 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- Williams, Alex (14 September 2019). "Kim Gordon's Other Life". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- Fleming, Jack (February 7, 2020). "Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes a loss on Franklin Hills home". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- Berry, Eric D. "For Sale: Zoe Saldana Lists LA Home On Market". HipHollywood.com. Retrieved 1 August 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 31 July 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 31 July 2022.
- NG, David (December 17, 2015). "L.A. Philharmonic's notable lead clarinetist scales down her career after 54 years". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 July 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.
