Angelino Heights Time Travel Walk — An Esotouric™ Walking Tour

Leo Politi

Leo Politi — Official site for the celebrated Los Angeles author-illustrator, who lived and worked in Angelino Heights.
Leo Politi: Esotouric Ghost Stories — Esotouric’s own profile of Politi, from their Ghost Stories series.
Become A Huntington Library Reader — How to get research access to the Huntington’s archives and collections.

Key texts on the architects and styles behind Angelino Heights’ Victorian houses.

A Survey Of Nineteenth Century Building In Los Angeles — John Leonard Connolly, Jr. — Master’s Thesis (MFA), University of Southern California, 1962.
On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century — Richard W. Longstreth. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1983.
Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom: Victorian Architectural Imagery in California, 1878-1908 — David Gebhard, Harriette Von Breton, Robert Winter. University of Michigan, 1979.
Architecture in Southern California — Elmer Grey. Architectural Record, January 1905.
The California Bungalow — Robert Winter. Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1980.
The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright — Vincent Scully, Jr. Yale University Press, 1971.
The Magnificent Ambersons — Booth Tarkington. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1918.

Historic-Cultural Monument nomination documents for buildings along this walk.

Morgan & Walls Mrs. Alice J. Hile Residence (1906) — Used as a film location, in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939).
CHASE! A Tribute To The Keystone Cops

1032 W Edgeware: The House Moved from Bunker Hill
Carroll Ave National Register District
Angelino Heights HPOZ
Original Angelino Heights HPOZ Survey, 3 Volumes (January 1981)
Starter Home Revitalization Act (SB 684/1123) — California law streamlining subdivision approval for projects up to 10 new parcels/dwelling units; amended by SB 1123 and AB 130 (effective July 1, 2025), following earlier SB 684 amendments (effective July 1, 2024).
Cry California — Quarterly journal of the nonprofit California Tomorrow, founded in 1961 by Samuel Wood and Alfred Heller to push back on unchecked growth and champion integrated land-use planning; Cry California launched in 1965, edited by William Bronson, and ran until 1982.

Masters of Production: Tribute to Richard Sylbert — Ida Sessions’ bungalow is 5 minutes in!
Save Walker’s Cafe
Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details — Charles Locke Eastlake, 1872.
Victor & Prudent Beaudry — French Los Angeles history in general.
Friends of Everett St — And Everett Park.