This fifth-annual Historic Echo Park Home Tour will literally be a step up from previous tours as we focus on our neighborhood's
unique network of public stairways.
"Flights of Fancy: The Stairway Homes of Echo Park," will feature homes and apartments located on or near the more than 30
public stairways that scale the hills of Echo Park, Angelino
Heights and Elysian Heights.
The homes on this year's tour range from a 1920s era Spanish-Colonial compound overlooking Echo Park Lake to nearly
century old Craftsman bungalows in this hills of Elysian Heights. For the first time, the tour features a newly constructed
structure, a post-and-beam style house that is among the first new homes built on an Echo Park stairway in decades.
Echo Park's stairways are reminders that our neighborhood was developed in the era before the automobile began to dominate the look and culture of Los Angeles, providing
a practical way for early residents to walk from their hillside homes to the streets and streetcars lines below. The tour will open a door into the unique lifestyle of stairway dwellers, some of whom must climb more
than 100 steps every day to reach their front door .
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The self-guided tour, which will be held on Sunday, November 11 from 11 am to 4
pm, starts at Williams Hall, 2000 Stadium Way. Tour visitors will
pick up tickets, a program and map at Williams Hall and can then see the homes in any order they want.
Admission is $20 or $15 for EPHS members. During
the month of October, $15 advance purchase tickets will be available for sale online and through the mail. Return
to this page on Oct. 1 for details.
The tour is designed to generate interest in the preservation of old and historic homes as well as raise funds to
support our ongoing preservation and historic research programs.
For more information about the tour, headed by Holly Hampton,
please contact us by email or call (323) 860-8874
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