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Historic Sunset Blvd. Homes Face Demolition (Video)
The childhood home of silent film actress and civil rights lawyer Anna Zacsek--one of the oldest homes on Sunset--could face the wrecking ball.
A historic compound of turn-of-the-20th-century houses on Sunset Boulevard is imperiled by the proposed , according to a post on the Echo Park Historical Society website.
The 62-unit project includes residential and commercial space and is four stories tall.
But it threatens the childhood home of Anna Zacsek, silent film actress with D.W. Griffith and later a civil rights lawyer in the trial of Pedro Gonzalez and the Sleepy Lagoon Murders, EPHS says:
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The tiny shingled cottage next to the Anna Zacsek cottage might be the oldest building on all of Sunset Boulevard.
In October of 2011, the Office of Historic Resources and the Cultural Heritage Commission determined that the Anna Zacsek Cottage was not worthy of consideration as a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument by a vote of 3-2.
The site also posts Rory Mitchell's video about the compound. Mitchell, an architect and filmmaker, is doing a series of videos on the history of Sunset Boulevard.
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You can see that video above.
Click here to find out more about Mitchell's Valley Spring Lane Historical consulting site.
Read the full story on the Echo Park Historical Society site.
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