Hermon | |
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 Hermon Neighborhood Sign located on Via Marisol at the 110 Freeway exit | |
  Hermon Location within Central Los Angeles | |
| Coordinates: 34°06′14″N118°11′06″W / 34.103906°N 118.185077°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Los Angeles |
| City | Los Angeles |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
Hermon is a neighborhood in the northeast area of Los Angeles. It was established in 1903 and became part of Los Angeles in 1912.
Hermon was established in 1903, when the Free Methodist church group obtained the isolated valley from owner Ralph Rogers to establish a school. Rogers provided an additional one hundred building lots to sell for operating funds. The community of Hermon was organized around the campus, named after the biblical Mount Hermon, [1] and largely populated by families whose children attended the school. [2] The school grew to become Los Angeles Pacific College in 1934, then closed in 1965 after the buildings were found to be too damaged to bring up to code. Up until 2003, the school campus held a private college prep high school, Pacific Christian. It is now owned by Bethesda Christian University and has been leased to Los Angeles College Prep Academy (LACPA) (formerly L.A. International Charter High School).
Hermon was annexed into Los Angeles in 1912. Better links were established between Hermon and the rest of Los Angeles with the construction of a bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Avenue 60 in 1926, the Monterey Road pass to the south in 1930, [3] and the Hermon Avenue bridge (renamed Via Marisol by the late Los Angeles City Council member Art Snyder in 1978 to honor his young daughter, Erin Marisol Snyder) to the west in 1939.
In the years since its inception, the neighborhood has grown from 100 small lots into a community of approximately 3,500 residents. The Hermon Neighborhood Council was certified in May 2017 as the 97th and smallest Los Angeles neighborhood advisory board.
Hermon is situated in a half square-mile valley bordered by the Arroyo Seco and the 110 freeway to the west, Rose Hills to the south, [4] and South Pasadena to the north and Monterey Hills to the east. [5] When the "Hermon" sign at the Arroyo Seco Freeway exit was originally installed, it was mistakenly spelled "Herman". [6]
The Los Angeles Unified School District operates district schools.
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The Arroyo Seco Parkway, also known as the Pasadena Freeway, is one of the oldest freeways built in the United States. It connects Los Angeles with Pasadena alongside the Arroyo Seco seasonal river. It is notable not only for being an early freeway, mostly opened in 1940, but for representing the transitional phase between early parkways and modern freeways. It conformed to modern standards when it was built, but is now regarded as a narrow, outdated roadway. A 1953 extension brought the south end to the Four Level Interchange in downtown Los Angeles and a connection with the rest of the freeway system.
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Via Marisol continues into the adjacent Monterey Hills neighborhood
When residents convinced Caltrans to at least add the neighborhood name near Via Marisol exit sign off the Arroyo Seco Parkway, the name was misspelled as "Herman,"
Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony - December 6, 2002
Holiday Tree Lighting Services 2018 / Hermon, Eagle Rock, and Highland Park Neighborhoods
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