PCAD - Leimert , Walter H, Company, Leimert Square Plan, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA

View of Leimert Square, Los Angeles, c. 2015; from Google Street View

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Leimert Boulevard and West 43rd Place
Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA 90008

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Also known as South Los Angeles.

Overview

The Brookline, MA-based Olmsted Brothers, the leading American landscape architectural firm during the 20th century's first three decades, provided plans for the main features of Leimert Plaza Park or Leimert Square. Drawings provided by the Olmsteds, produced between 01-07/1928, included a planting plan, two perspective sketches of the whole park, sidewalk/hardscape plans, plans of the plaza fountain, and fountain garden planting details, among other documents. (See Cynthia E. Exum, Maty Guiza-Leimert with a foreword by Walter H.Leimert III, Leimert Park, [Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012], p. 23.)

PCAD id: 19752

Publications

Exum, Cynthia E., Guiza-Leimert, Maty, Leimert Park, 23-25, 2012.

Leimert , Walter H, Company, Leimert Square Plan, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA (1927-1928)

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