Our office is at 1904 5th Ave, inside the West Adams district. If you live in Jefferson Park, Harvard Heights or Kinney Heights, your house is a short drive from our desk.
That proximity matters more here than in most of Los Angeles. West Adams has the city's largest concentration of Victorian and Craftsman homes and several Historic Preservation Overlay Zones, so exterior work often needs a planning review before LADBS issues a building permit. We run that sequence for you through our construction management service and match you with a licensed contractor from our network of 100+.
Four things we check on a West Adams walkthrough, before a single drawing is started.
Harvard Heights, Western Heights, Jefferson Park, Lafayette Square, Adams-Normandie, West Adams Terrace and North University Park are all local historic districts. Exterior alterations, additions and new construction there go to an HPOZ board that applies the district's Preservation Plan. We confirm your parcel's status first, so plans get drawn to pass instead of redrawn after a rejection.
Much of the housing here dates from the 1890s to the 1920s. Open a wall in a house that age and you can find knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized supply lines or a cripple-wall foundation that was never bolted. We put a discovery allowance in the budget from day one and bring in a structural engineer early when the house needs it.
West Adams sits inside the City of Los Angeles, so plan check and inspections run through LADBS, with City Planning involved for HPOZ properties. Seismic retrofits, ADUs and garage conversions each follow their own permit path, and we file them in the right order.
Box-beam ceilings, built-in buffets, clinker brick and original wood windows are why people buy here. Our architectural design team plans new kitchens, baths and additions around those features instead of stripping them out.
One point of contact for HPOZ submittals, LADBS plan check and your contractor's schedule, from walkthrough to final inspection.
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Additions and exterior changes drawn to your district's Preservation Plan, so the HPOZ board sees a design it can sign off.
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New infill homes designed to sit comfortably next to Craftsman and Victorian neighbors.
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Kitchen, bath and whole-house remodels that replace tired systems and keep the original millwork.
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Rear additions, second stories and backyard ADUs that leave the street-facing character intact.
Explore home additionsFrom the E Line stations along Exposition Boulevard up to the churches and mansions on Adams Boulevard, we manage projects across the whole district and the streets around it. If your home is nearby in Culver City or Inglewood, we cover those too.
Ten minutes of checking now can save a full redesign later.
Enter your address in ZIMAS, the City of Los Angeles zoning lookup. The parcel's planning and zoning details show whether it falls inside an HPOZ.
Each HPOZ publishes a Preservation Plan with design guidelines. It spells out what the board expects for windows, porches, rooflines and additions.
We confirm the review path and plan the design to match it from the first sketch, through our architectural design team.
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