Real estate development -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Sandy Bleifer papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7077
Abstract
During her years as a real estate broker and historic preservation advocate in downtown Los Angeles, Sandra Bleifer created and collected a trove of materials documenting the revitalization of downtown in the 1990s and 2000s--decades witnessing an enormous amount of development and gentrification in the city's historic core and neighboring districts. The collection comprises materials on a variety of revitalization projects, plans, and studies undertaken by different organizations and...
Dates:
1990-2010
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles real estate scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 7044
Abstract
This scrapbook contains clippings and plot maps for various real estate locations around Los Angeles including but not limited to Occidental Park, West Adams, Pico and Western, Angelus Vista, Hollywood Heights, West Ninth Street Heights, Palm Place, West Washington Street Tract, Mercantile Place, and Venice Park. Many of the plot maps are stamped to indicate sold lots. The majority of the clippings are notices of lots bought and sold and arranged by street; the clippings are dated.
Dates:
1905-1907
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
R.A. Rowan & Co. records
Collection
Identifier: 0373
Abstract
R.A. Rowan & Co. was one of the Los Angeles area's earliest and most long-lived real estate development firms, spanning almost a hundred years of the twentieth century. Robert A. Rowan was responsible for founding the company in 1904; the company remained in family hands for many generations until it finally folded in the late 1990s. By then, the original real estate company had expanded into several other ventures including property management, agriculture, insurance, thoroughbred...
Dates:
1904-1999
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections