The 1300 block of Carroll Avenue holds the largest concentration of Victorian houses in the city.
What Angelino Heights looks like
Angelino Heights sits on a hill above Echo Park Lake. The Hollywood Freeway cuts it off from downtown Los Angeles except for an overpass at Edgeware Road, where the Victorian block of Carroll Avenue begins.
Carroll Avenue's 1300 block runs from Edgeware Road toward Douglas Street, with Eastlake and Queen Anne houses on both sides, most built in the late 1880s. Cast iron fences and turned porch posts line the sidewalk.
The at 1345 is a two story Queen Anne in weathered blue gray clapboard, with a canted bay window and a second floor porch. Next door, the at 1329 is painted maroon with white trim and a small covered porch at the top of its steps. The Pinney House at 1355, cream with teal trim, has a sunburst gable over its front stairs.
The Foy House, near the corner, is a cream Italianate with bracketed eaves and a columned porch. It is older in style than the houses around it. Farther down the block, a red carriage house with a shingled corner turret opens onto Kellam Avenue. A three story Victorian duplex with a columned porch and a red umbrella on its upper balcony faces Kensington Road.
Shot in Angelino Heights
Three houses on this block of Carroll Avenue have each played a different production. All three sit within a hundred yards of one another on the same block.
Michael Jackson's Thriller
The Sanders House
Played The house at the end of the video
Michael Jackson's video for Thriller ends here, with Ola Ray running to the door to escape the zombie horde in the final shot. The house also appears in a fourth season episode of Charmed and in the 1989 film Teen Witch.
Charmed
The Innes House
Played Halliwell Manor, San Francisco, California
The Innes House played the exterior of Halliwell Manor across most of Charmed's run on The WB from 1998 to 2006, standing in for a mansion the show set in San Francisco. The same house also appears as Tina's House in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and as Jody's House in the 1974 film Earthquake.
Mad Men
Played Don Draper's childhood home, Pennsylvania
The house played Don Draper's childhood home in Pennsylvania in flashbacks through Mad Men's sixth season on AMC. It appears again in the last scene of the season finale.
What Angelino Heights can double for
Alamo Square in San Francisco, California
Postcard Row is a block of ornate Victorian row houses on Steiner Street. It dates from 1892 to 1896, the same run of years as most of Carroll Avenue. Both share matching bay windows and stacked gables climbing a hill. The San Francisco row shares party walls on a steeper grade than Carroll Avenue, so a wide shot needs a hill in frame and the houses spaced further apart to hold the Los Angeles match. Try searching Victorian row houses now.
Old Louisville holds more than forty blocks of Queen Anne and Italianate houses built between the 1880s and 1900s, the same styles and scale as Carroll Avenue. Most of Old Louisville's houses are brick with red sandstone trim rather than painted wood, so a close shot needs one of the district's few frame houses to hold the match. Try searching Queen Anne brick houses now.
Cape May rebuilt in wood frame Victorian houses after an 1878 fire and now holds the second largest concentration of them in the country after San Francisco, with the same gingerbread trim and wraparound porches as Carroll Avenue. Cape May's streets are wider and its houses sit further apart as a seaside resort, so a tight porch level frame reads better than a wide street shot. Try searching wood frame Victorian porches now.
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