Category: Neighborhood Guides

The area commonly known as the Beverly Hills Post Office (BHPO), which includes the hillside neighborhood of Beverly Crest, occupies a uniquely desirable slice of Los Angeles real‑estate geography. Though it shares the iconic ZIP code 90210 with the city of Beverly Hills, the land lies just outside the municipal borders and falls under the jurisdiction of…

History Windsor Square is one of Los Angeles’ earliest planned residential communities, conceived with a vision of elegance, order, and exclusivity. In 1885, a syndicate known as the Windsor Square Land Company purchased 200 acres of the old Plummer Homestead, land bounded today by Plymouth Boulevard, Bronson Avenue, Wilshire Boulevard, and Beverly Boulevard at $400…

History Hancock Park was developed in the 1920s by the Hancock family, whose fortune was built from oil drilling on the former Rancho La Brea. The neighborhood was named after developer and philanthropist George Allan Hancock, who began subdividing the property in 1921, starting along Rossmore Avenue and extending west to Highland Avenue. Hancock envisioned…