Wellington Square is a neighborhood in Mid-City Los Angeles, California at the western edge of the West Adams District.
Wellington Square neighborhood sign
Wellington Square, 1913
Wilshire and San Vicente Blvds
LaFayette Square is a historic semi-gated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
Wellington Square, Los Angeles
…the Santa Monica Freeway on the south and West Boulevard on the west. The neighborhood is gated at West Boulevard and 23rd Street. The neighborhoods of LaFayette Square and Victoria Park are located north of Wellington Square. Wellington Square was subdivided in 1912 by George L. Crenshaw and was developed by prominent…
The LaFayette Square neighborhood sign at St. Charles Place, around 2015
A proposed level crossing at the Pacific Electric tracks (today's Venice Boulevard) would result in "the worse death trap in Los Angeles," a traffic engineer warned in 1915, because of the impaired view of the railway from West Boulevard on both sides. A viaduct was built instead, in 1920.
Los Angeles Express advertisement for Lafayette Square tract, January 1913
Mediterranean Revival style home in Lafayette Square, 2012