HCM-200 — designated 1978-10-18
Second Baptist Church Building
2408-2412 Griffith Avenue and 1100 West 24th Street
religious institution or other excluded category; separate analytical track
outside the analytical frame — religious property, federal land, or category excluded by rubric
street view ↗ satellite ↗ big orange landmarks ↗ (bariscale, 2008) brick (orchestrator-captured imagery is not building-aimed — use these for HITL verification)
Six-axis scores
- A. would-survive 5 probability the structure would survive market forces without HCM designation. low = needs protection.
- B. tourist currency 0 tourist and cultural currency — Wikipedia pageviews, walking-tour inclusion, public visitation evidence.
- C. subsidy efficiency 0 subsidy efficiency — Mills Act and federal HTC value vs preservation outcome. zero means no active subsidy.
- D. externality load 0 externality load — code complaints, CSR cases, 311 encampment/dumping/graffiti, vacancy duration.
- E. neighborhood health 3 neighborhood health — median household income, distress indicators, displacement risk.
- F. alternative-use value 3 alternative-use value — parcel acres, TOC tier, TPA eligibility, zoning capacity for higher use.
overall confidence: unknown
Site
- lat / lon
- 34.02118, -118.25625
- parcel acres
- 0.43144778359370195 (inferred)
- typology
- religious
- TPA / TOC
- yes — tier 3
- zoning capacity
- —
- nrhp listed
- no
- architect prominence
- —
Condition + subsidy
all "condition" fields below are proxies derived from LADBS permit history, 311 CSR cases, and code complaints. none of these directly measures occupancy. the vacancy line shows the proxy value and the specific rule that produced it; readers should treat "active" as "construction permits filed recently," not "people live or work here."
- vacancy proxy
- active
- vacancy proxy basis
- recent investment over 250k in 60mo
- last permit
- 2023
- permits last 24mo
- 0
- code complaints 24mo
- 0
- CSR open cases
- 0
- Mills Act contract
- no — not in la OHR appendix a (2019 list of Mills Act properties)
- federal HTC
- no
- Wikipedia pageviews 12mo
- —
- walking-tour inclusion
- no
- median hhi (tract)
- $45,840
- assessed value
- —
Contextual signals (GIS)
these are contextual proxies — signals derived from spatial context, not direct measurements of the property. they help infer hidden variables (contamination probability, structural risk) that public open-data does not measure directly. source: cal OEHHA CalEnviroScreen 4.0 (cumulative pollution burden by census tract).
- census tract
- 6037226420
- CalEnviroScreen overall percentile
- 96.7 (decile 10)
- cleanups percentile
- 89.7
- groundwater threats percentile
- 7.0
- hazardous waste percentile
- 83.8
- toxic release percentile
- 83.2
- lead exposure percentile
- 90.3
- EnviroStor cleanup sites nearby
- —
- in CGS liquefaction zone
- no
- type-1 contamination probability (fused)
- 0.54 — moderate
- type-2 structural-risk probability
- 0.20 — low
Narrative
history
the second baptist church building, designated hcm-200 by the city of los angeles, is one of the oldest african american congregation facilities in los angeles. second baptist church was founded in 1885, making it the oldest african american baptist congregation in the city, and the congregation relocated and constructed successive facilities as its membership grew throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. the current building at griffith avenue in the west adams district was constructed in 1925 (approximately), and the congregation has long been a civic anchor for black los angeles, hosting figures including booker t. washington and, later, serving as a visible institutional presence during the great migration era when black residents settling in southern california sought established community institutions. the building has remained in continuous religious use by the congregation through the present day, a span of roughly a century, and has witnessed the demographic and economic transformation of the surrounding west adams neighborhood across multiple cycles.
architectural significance
the building is a notable example of early twentieth-century ecclesiastical architecture in the african american community tradition of los angeles, exhibiting neoclassical and renaissance revival influences common to protestant church construction of the 1920s. comparable extant examples of congregation-owned structures from this era and community include the first african methodist episcopal church building in south los angeles, though second baptist's specific detailing — including its formal facade composition and interior volume — reflects the ambitions of a congregation that had achieved sufficient institutional stability by the mid-1920s to commission a substantial permanent structure. distinctive features include the primary street-facing elevation designed for civic legibility and the structural massing intended to anchor a corner or prominent lot within the residential grid. architect attribution is not confirmed in available data.
neighborhood context
the census tract surrounding hcm-200 records a median household income of $45,840, which places it in the lower-income tier relative to citywide medians, and the tract has experienced a net population decline of approximately 120 persons over the most recent five-year measurement period, indicating modest but real demographic contraction rather than growth pressure. the 311 externality load in the immediate 500-foot radius is negligible based on available data — zero recorded encampment, dumping, or graffiti incidents — which suggests the building itself generates no measurable negative spillover and that the immediate block face is relatively stable despite the broader tract's income profile. transit proximity and toc/tpa designation data were not recovered for this parcel, limiting the ability to assess redevelopment pressure from a transit-oriented capacity standpoint. | metric | value | |---|---| | census tract | 06037226420 | | median hhi | 45840 | | 5yr δ population | -120 | | 311 within 500ft (24mo) | 0 | | encampment 311 calls | 0 | | ladbs code complaints (24mo) | — | | last permit year | — |
subsidy and condition
| field | value | |---|---| | mills act | — | | federal htc | — | | vacancy status | — |
classification reasoning
axis scores for this hcm are substantially incomplete. axes b, c, and f carry 'unknown' confidence because the underlying data — google review counts, mills act contract status, federal historic tax credit participation, parcel acreage, zoning capacity, and tpa/toc tier — were not returned in the fetch. this data gap means the candidate flag conditions cannot be evaluated reliably: f_min ≥ 6 and c or d ≥ 6 thresholds require parcel-level and subsidy data that are absent. axis a scores 5 at medium confidence, reflecting the ambiguity inherent in a continuously occupied religious institution: the congregation's century-long tenure and civic prominence suggest some organic survival capacity, but the building's assessed value and owner-investment record are also unknown, precluding a firmer counterfactual judgment. axis d scores 0 at medium confidence, consistent with the zero 311 incident counts, meaning the property imposes no measurable externality burden on its surroundings. axis e scores 3 at high confidence, driven by the $45,840 median hhi and negative five-year population change; the tract qualifies as a distressed or transitional context by framework thresholds, but this neighborhood-health weakness is analytically moot for the disposition decision given the exemption. the overall confidence rating is 'unknown' because three of six axes lack sufficient data, and no scoring inference across the full candidate flag condition set is possible at this time.
sources
- la311: https://data.lacity.org/resource/h65r-yf5i.json?$where=within_circle(location%2c%2034.021183017918545%2c%20-118.25624922370623%2c%20152)%20and%20createddate%20%3e%20'2024-05-10'&$limit=1000 --- _generated by hcm-1200 orchestrator on 2026-05-10t23:29:45.727z._