Streetcar Depot, West Los Angeles
Streetcar Depot | |
Eastlake | |
NRHP reference No. | 72000232 [1] |
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Added to NRHP | February 23, 1972 |
The Sawtelle Streetcar Depot is located on the grounds of the
Westside area of Los Angeles, California
.
The
depot was designed by J. Lee Burton in 1900, in conjunction with the nearby Wadsworth Chapel also on the Veterans Home campus.[2] Both were listed in the National Register of Historic Places
in 1972.
History
This station was the
Balloon Route.[3]
The extension started at the present-day
Expo / Sepulveda station on the E Line (Los Angeles Metro) and continued north on the western side of Sepulveda Boulevard
to the depot.
Passenger service to the station ended around July 1920.[3] The line was maintained and operational — but seldom used — until the entire Air Line was abandoned.[citation needed] After closure the right-of-way was initially kept intact, but eventually sold off in piecemeal for various building developments, making any future restoration prohibitively expensive.
Design
The wooden building was designed in the Victorian
Eastlake Movement style
by J. Lee Burton, and completed in 1900.
It is similar to another still-standing structure of the Air Line, the Palms-Southern Pacific Railroad Depot.[2]
Preceding station | Pacific Electric | Following station | ||
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Terminus | Air Line Home Branch
|
Home Junction towards Pacific Electric Building
|
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles, California
- Sawtelle, Los Angeles topics
- Stick-Eastlake architecture in California
- Wadsworth Chapel
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ from the original on 2021-09-06. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ OCLC 6565577.