Cultural Preservation Resources
& Museums

 
 

Office of Historic Preservation, City of Los Angeles
Historic-Cultural Monuments
www.preservation.lacity.org

Survey LA
Brentwood - Pacific Palisades
Historic Resources Survey Report -- Brentwood - Pacific Palisades Community Plan Area (6.2 MB, PDF)
Brentwood Pacific Palisades Individual Resources -- November 2013 (6.6 MB, PDF)
Brentwood Pacific Palisades Non-Parcel Resources -- November 2013 (1.0 MB, PDF)
Brentwood Pacific Palisades Historic Districts, Planning Districts and Multi-Property Resources -- November 2013 (7.7 MB, PDF)

 

CALISPHERE
University of California
Palisades Historical Image Collection

Santa Monica Conservancy
www.smconservancy.org

Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
www.smmc.ca.gov

The Autry Museum of the American West
www.theautry.org

J. Paul Getty Museum
www.getty.edu

Huntington Museum
www.huntington.org

Aldersgate Retreat Center
www.aldersgateretreat.org

Los Angeles Conservancy
www.laconservancy.org

California Historical Society
www.californiahistoricalsociety.org

California Preservation Foundation
www.californiapreservation.org

Theodore Payne Foundation
www.theodorepayne.org

Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society
https://www.smbasblog.com/

Trust for Public Land
www.tlp.org

Temescal Canyon Association
www.temcanyon.org

Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club
www.theppwc.org

Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine
www.lakeshrine.org

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
www.nps.gov

Santa Monica History Museum
www.santamonicahistory.org

Mapping the Tongva villages of L.A.'s past - Los Angeles Times
www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-tongva-map

 

An audio tour of Los Angeles’ native language
Listen to the inflections and melody of Tongva, as spoken by its students and teacher.

 

California’s Gold - Chautauqua
Huell visits Temescal Gateway Park in Pacific Palisades which was a major center of the Chautauqua Movement in the 1920s and ‘30s.
Temescal Canyon Gateway Park
15601 Sunset Boulevard, Pacific Palisades
https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/2003/01/29/chautauqua-californias-golden-parks-115/