Half-Day Los Angeles Historic Districts Private Guided Tour

4 hours Free cancellation Private tour

Pre-900 East Lake Victorian House — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

Classic Middle Age Tudor House — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

About this activity

Go back in time and explore the real Los Angeles and its most important Historic Districts. These gems were built when LA had less than 200,000 inhabitants and today they are hidden inside this megalopolis of 15 millions.

We will go from Angelino Heights, with its best example of pre-1900 Victorian houses; to Windsor Square, designed to be the most exclusive LA neighborhood with the largest lots, and Beaux Arts and Craftsman style homes; to Hancock Park, the dream of one of the most famous LA Mayors, known for its two-story, Palatian period revival homes—Tudor, Gothic Revival, Spanish Colonial, American Colonial, Mediterranean. We will stop also the world famous La Brea Tar Pits, with its incredible fossils collection of extinct mega-fauna of the late Pleistocene. Museum not included. The tour will end in South Carthay, a neighborhood developed in the 1930's by the Greek developer Spyros with its Spanish Colonial Revival houses, stained glass windows, tiles, and shower glass etching.

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At a glance

Duration: 4 hours
Confirmation: Confirmed within 48 hours
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: English, Italian, Spanish
Operated by: Alberto Cioni Inc

What is included

Included

Included: Guide
Included: Car

Not included

Not included: Tip is very recommended because we keep the price for this private 4 hrs tour very low.
Not included: No greenhouse gases. We tour with Tesla Y electric car.

Itinerary

Angelino Heights Historic Area

30 min

Angelino Heights (1983)

-First Designated Historic District in LA.

-LA's first suburb: best concentration of pre-1900 Victorian-era architecture in LA

-Later example of Craftsman and Mission Revival Styles
Hancock Park

30 min

Hancock Park: designated in 2006 HPOZ, part of Mayor Henry Hancock purchase of eastern portion of Rancho La Brea and developed by his son G. Allan Hancock in 1920's; known for its palatian two stories period revival home - Tudor, Gothic Revival, Spanish Colonial, Italian Renaissance Revival, American Colonial, Mediterranean and Monterey Revival, French Eclectic and many more. We will visit also the world famous La Brea Tar Pits, with its incredible fossils collection of extinct mega-fauna of the late Pleistocene.
La Brea Tar Pits & Museum

30 min Admission included

We will visit the tar pits, (not the museum) where they found one of the most complete collection of the extinct mammals of the Pleistocene, like saber tooth tigers, mammoths, lions, dire wolfs, elephants...
Los Angeles

30 min

South Carthay District, developed for the new affluent middle class in 1930's by the Greek developer Spyros George Ponty with its Spanish Colonial Revival houses, stained glass windows, tiles, shower glass etching.