Franklin Hills | |
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 Franklin Hills neighborhood sign located on St. George Street at Tracy Street | |
  Franklin Hills Location in Northeast Los Angeles | |
| Coordinates: 34°06′25″N118°16′37″W / 34.10694°N 118.27694°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  California |
| County | Los Angeles |
| City | Los Angeles |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP Code | 90027 |
| Area codes | 323 |
Franklin Hills is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. It is home to one Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
Franklin Hills is a residential neighborhood, set in the hills east of Los Feliz Village. The Los Angeles Times described it as a "diverse community" with a "collage of architectural styles". [1]
Franklin Hills is home to the Shakespeare Bridge. The ravine over which the bridge crosses was once a perennial stream called Arroyo de la Sacatela. To the east of the bridge is the Franklin Hills public stairway system, which provides pedestrian linkages among the curvy streets, a series of 14 staircases originally built in the 1920s to provide hillside homeowners pedestrian access to the trolley lines below.
Prospect Studios is on Talmadge Street. Opened in 1915 as the Vitagraph Studio, the lot later became the Warner Brothers Studios East Hollywood Annex, then home of the ABC Television Center and local affiliate KABC, finally becoming part of the Walt Disney Company in 1996.
Brothers Roy and Walt Disney both owned homes at the corner of Lyric Avenue and St. George Street [2] during the late 1920s so that they could walk to their new animation studio, located a few blocks away at 2719 Hyperion Avenue [2] (at the intersection of Hyperion and Griffith Park Boulevard).
Franklin Hills is bounded on the north by Franklin Avenue and St. George Street, on the west by Talmadege Street, on the south by Fountain Avenue, and on the east by Tracy Street and Hyperion Avenue. [3]
Franklin Hills is bordered by Los Feliz Village on the west, [4] Silver Lake on the east, and East Hollywood on the south.
Franklin Hills is within the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council. [4] Section E comprises Franklin Hills and a few neighboring blocks on the west. [5] [6]
There is one public school within the Franklin Hills boundaries:
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Franklin Hills is a diverse yet neighborhly community displaying a collage of architectural styles.
The brothers commissioned a pair of matching homes on a hillside near their new studio... Walt lived in the one on the corner of St. George Street and Lyric Avenue, while Roy took the twin to the east.
Franklin Hills and a few other neighboring blocks comprise District E
Franklin Hills, along with a few more of the streets lying directly to the West of it ("Franklin Hills adj.") makes up District E
newly married actress Zoe Saldana has listed her Franklin Hills home for sale with an asking price of $1.2 million
The home of musician/producer Joey Waronker, this 1934 Spanish in Franklin Hills is loaded with beautiful period details
"I'm 72 and I don't look a day over 71!" she proclaimed during an interview at her Franklin Hills home, a simply furnished two-story house that she's owned for nearly 40 years.
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