Wellington Square, Los Angeles

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Wellington Square is a neighborhood in Mid-City Los Angeles, California at the western edge of the West Adams District.

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==Geography==

Wellington Square consists of four streets: Victoria Avenue, Wellington Road, Virginia Road, and Buckingham Road. These four streets contain 209 homes of various architectural styles including Spanish Colonial, Tudor, Craftsman and French Norman.{{cite news |last1=Kirkpatrick |first1=Dawn |title=Wellington Square History |url=http://theneighborhoodnewsonline.net/history/our-history/857-wellington-square |access-date=16 June 2023 |publisher=The Neighborhood News Online |date=August 2, 2013}}

The neighborhood is bordered by Washington Boulevard on the north, Crenshaw Boulevard on the east, the Santa Monica Freeway on the south and West Boulevard on the west. The neighborhood is gated at West Boulevard and 23rd Street.

The neighborhoods of LaFayette Square and Victoria Park are located north of Wellington Square.

==History==

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Wellington Square was subdivided in 1912 by George L. Crenshaw and was developed by prominent real estate developer M.J. Nolan.Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1914, pp.V12. In 1913, Nolan started to develop 90 acres of land between Adams Boulevard and the new La Fayette Square neighborhood. The original boundaries of Wellington Square were: Washington Boulevard on the north, Crenshaw Boulevard on the east, Adams Boulevard on the south, and West Boulevard on the west.{{cite news |title=Wellington Sqaure Advertisement |url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Wellington_Square_1913.jpg |access-date=28 February 2025 |agency=Los Angeles Evening Express |date=April 26, 1913}}

The boom years of the 1920s saw the peak of development of the neighborhood. Homes in the neighborhood are an architectural mixture of Craftsman and Revival styles of the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1955, construction of the Santa Monica Freeway began. Homes in the path of the freeway were taken by eminent domain and demolished by Caltrans. The freeway came through the southern portion of Wellington Square, leaving only a few homes south of the freeway. That small area is no longer considered part of the Wellington Square.