Last week, the Getty Conservation Institute and the City of Los Angeles launched HistoricPlacesLA, an online resource that catalogues the city’s cultural sites. The database has information on approximately 25,000 places in L.A., including architecturally significant buildings, parks, and historic districts. Accessible to the public, it will serve as a research tool for those interested in the city’s history or the development of its infrastructure. It will also have commercial purposes: Real-estate developers can explore a neighborhood’s architectural style and determine a lot’s administrative zones. And tourists can use the site to find monuments and celebrity homes, like those of Ella Fitzgerald and Amelia Earhart.
To access the information, collected through SurveyLA, users can view a map of L.A. and click on markers designating places of interest, or they can search the database by many parameters, such as address, date of construction, or inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Only 75 percent of the survey has been completed, so the database will continue to grow as more research is added.
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