Kinney Heights, Los Angeles

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Kinney Heights is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, bounded by Arlington, 23rd, Adams, and Hermosa (originally Gramercy Place), just south of Interstate 10. Kinney Heights is a subdistrict of the West Adams district of South Los Angeles, California; Curbed also associates it with Jefferson Park.{{Cite web |last=Chandler |first=Jenna |date=2017-07-18 |title=Enchanting Craftsman with original carriage barn asks $899K in Jefferson Park |url=https://la.curbed.com/2017/7/18/15990632/craftsman-kinney-heights-west-adams-for-sale |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=Curbed LA |language=en}}

Before it was subdivided the land was owned by General Hanford Gordon Lennox.{{Cite news |date=1920-11-13 |title=Pioneer Dies |pages=15 |work=Los Angeles Evening Post-Record |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-post-record-pioneer/134640836/ |access-date=2023-11-05}} The area was developed in 1899 by developer Abbot Kinney, for whom it is named.{{Cite web |title=West Adams Heritage Association {{!}} in Historic West Adams, Los Angeles, California |url=https://westadamsheritage.org/read/412 |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=westadamsheritage.org}}{{Cite web |title=West Adams Terrace {{!}} Los Angeles City Planning |url=https://planning.lacity.org/blog/west-adams-terrace |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=planning.lacity.org}} It was a suburban tract of large Craftsman style homes at what was then the western edge of Los Angeles. The homes featured amenities like "beveled-glass china cabinets, marble fireplaces and mahogany floors".{{cite news|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/421992756|title=Vanishing: The history of one house in L.A.|last=Mithers|first=Carol|date=April 17, 2005|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=28 July 2013}} It was accessible to downtown via streetcar and attracted upper-middle-class families.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-in-touch-with-the/134640430/|title=In Touch with the Past: Craftsman-style homes in three neighborhoods recall gracious days of yore. Today they rate among L.A.'s best buys|last=Oliver|first=Marilyn Tower|date=October 1, 1995|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2023-11-04}} & {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-homes-neighborhoo/134640510/|title=HOMES: Neighborhoods' Craftsman-Style Houses (part 2 of 2)}} At least one house in the neighborhood had a carriage house built on the property.

Many of the hundred-year-old homes are still standing and have been renovated and upgraded. The neighborhood is part of the West Adams Terrace Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ). Neighboring subdistricts included Gramercy Park, Adams Place, and Berkeley Square.{{Cite book |last=Mandel |first=Jennifer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0dBbEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Kinney+Heights%22&pg=PT80 |title=The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles |date=2022-03-29 |publisher=University of Nevada Press |isbn=978-1-64779-035-6 |language=en}}

The Williams Andrews Clark Library is located in Kinney Heights.{{Cite book |last1=Cooper |first1=Suzanne Tarbell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YihCiW11oLoC&dq=%22Kinney+Heights%22&pg=PA93 |title=West Adams |last2=Lynch |first2=Don |last3=Kurtz |first3=John G. |date=2008 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-5920-9 |pages=93 |language=en}}