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Newsletter Archive
EPHS
would like to welcome the following new members, and express our appreciation to those who have renewed
their memberships:
Business
Rolf McPherson
Evageline
McPherson
Household
David Bice
Robin Blackman - Merrick Morton
Susan & John Borden
Mary Brooks - TK Wang
Murray Burns - Planaria Price
Neal E. Cutler - Donna Crane
Paul & Birgitta Dounian
Elizabeth Chapman - Russell Edge
Viltis Januta - Mark Skiles
Suzanne & Noel Rogers
Mary & Roger Steffens
Sally Nemeth - Dave Willis
Gerald & Linnea
Dawson
Edna Kam
Midge Mueller
Brian Smith - Brian Kitchens
Lore Spangler
Individual
Martin Cox
Jean Drum
Ronald Holmes
Chie Iseri
Gloria Lothrop
Annalisa Magnusson
Evelyn Mead
Margaret Meyer
Dave Ptach
Marjorie Romer
Anna Waldbaum
Martha Hill
Holly Jerger
Rick Klingsporn
Pete Nelson
Christine Papalexis
Nancy Popenoe
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Historic Echo Park
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Spring 2004 Newsletter
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Save the date!
Echo Park Historical Society ~ General Meeting
Wednesday, February 18 7 p.m.
For those of you who missed it, the Echo Park Historical Society will screen the
Historic Echo Park Home Tour episode of Huell Howser's "Our Neighborhoods." The thirty-minute segment captures three homes
from the tour staged by the EPHS last November. In addition, we will focus on the EPHS's major projects for 2004.
Meeting
Place:
Williams Hall at Barlow Hospital, 2000 Stadium Way
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Palmer Morton Scott's
Place in Local History
The EPHS has always taken great interest in the origins of our neighborhood’s street names that
crisscross our community. Two of our most important streets, and maybe a third
- Scott, Morton and Parmer avenues - are very likely linked to the same family, and a very early, very passionate advocate
for our community.
Palmer Morton Scott or P.M. Scott, as he was frequently known was a major landholder in Echo Park’s earliest days. He was also deeply involved in our neighborhood’s civic life, or so it appears
reading press accounts from a century ago.
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Discover Your Home's History When Matthew DuBois purchased a Victorian house on Scott Avenue in 2001,
he not only became a homeowner but a historic researcher. Here is how he tracked down his home’s interesting history
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Historical Society Launches
Walking Tour en Espaňol
The Echo Park Historical Society will add a Spanish-language version of its historic walking
tour of Echo Park lake and the central business district starting this Spring.
Led by Echo Park resident Margarita Fernandez, the tour will be one of the few regularly scheduled historic tours offered
in Spanish in Southern California. The tour includes some of Echo Park’s most prominent and significant buildings and
landmarks, including the Jensen’s Recreation Center, Angelus Temple and, of course, Echo Park Lake.
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Echo Park Debates
Community Plan
Imagine an Echo
Park without many of its fine brick buildings on Sunset Boulevard. Picture our business district without the old Bank of America
building, or Par Paint, or the antique row west of Alvarado Street. Or envision Echo Park Avenue without many of the tiny
bungalows that run all the way north past Cerro Gordo Street.
These are the concerns being expressed publicly by the EPHS and its members at community meetings and in homes, thanks
to the Echo Park - Silver Lake Community Plan.
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By Kevin Kuzma, EPHS President
With the holidays over and the start of the New Year, the board of the EPHS has been assessing 2003 and planning for 2004.
I think that most of us would agree that the top success
of 2003 was the first ever Historic Echo Park Home Tour. The EPHS would like
to, once again, express many thanks to the generous homeowners and the many volunteers who helped make this event so enjoyable
for the many participants.
Over 300 tour-goers came from far and wide to experience what most of us already know; that
Echo Park is a proud and diverse community with a housing stock to match. This event helped raise awareness and badly-needed
funds for some of the preservation and restoration efforts underway in our community.
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