HCM-229 — designated 1980-06-11
Westminster Presbyterian Church
2226-2230 West Jefferson Boulevard
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, 2009) stucco (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 4 neighborhood health — median household income, distress indicators, displacement risk.
- F. alternative-use value 0 alternative-use value — parcel acres, TOC tier, TPA eligibility, zoning capacity for higher use.
overall confidence: unknown
Site
- lat / lon
- 34.02530, -118.31983
- parcel acres
- 0.26991653530416193 (inferred)
- typology
- religious
- TPA / TOC
- no
- 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
- single permit within 5y
- last permit
- 2022
- 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)
- $64,180
- 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
- 6037219020
- CalEnviroScreen overall percentile
- 81.3 (decile 9)
- cleanups percentile
- 17.1
- groundwater threats percentile
- 27.8
- hazardous waste percentile
- 43.7
- toxic release percentile
- 81.7
- lead exposure percentile
- 99.4
- EnviroStor cleanup sites nearby
- —
- in CGS liquefaction zone
- yes — designated under seismic hazards mapping act of 1990
- type-1 contamination probability (fused)
- 0.26 — low
- type-2 structural-risk probability
- 0.70 — elevated (liquefaction zone membership combined with pre-modern-code designation date)
Narrative
history
westminster presbyterian church (hcm-229) is a religious institution located in los angeles, california. precise construction date and original architect are not documented in the fetched data; available records do not confirm nrhp listing status, suggesting the designation rests primarily on local significance rather than federal recognition. the congregation's founding and the building's construction date are not confirmed in accessible records and should be treated as uncertain pending archival research. no major documented events — fires, significant renovations, or ownership transfers — appear in the fetched data, though the absence of code complaints and 311 activity over the review period suggests the property has been maintained without incident in recent years (approximately).
architectural significance
insufficient data were returned to characterize the architectural style, architect of record, or specific design features of westminster presbyterian church with defensible precision. presbyterian ecclesiastical buildings constructed in los angeles across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries frequently drew on gothic revival, romanesque revival, or simplified craftsman-influenced vernacular idioms, but no field documentation or photographic inventory was available to confirm which applies here. comparable extant examples of mid-century and earlier presbyterian congregational architecture in los angeles include the first presbyterian church of hollywood and knox presbyterian church, though direct stylistic comparisons cannot be made without verified building records.
neighborhood context
the tract surrounding hcm-229 recorded a median household income of $64,180, placing it in the lower-middle range relative to the los angeles county median and consistent with a score of 4 on the neighborhood-health axis (e). population declined by approximately 614 residents over the prior five-year period, indicating demographic contraction rather than growth or stabilization. the 311 externality profile for the immediate 500-foot buffer is clean — zero encampment, dumping, or graffiti incidents logged — which attenuates concern about the property acting as a disorder attractor, though it does not speak to broader block-level conditions. transit proximity and toc/tpa designation data were not returned, leaving alternative-use capacity (axis f) unscored. | metric | value | |---|---| | census tract | 06037219020 | | median hhi | 64180 | | 5yr δ population | -614 | | 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 a (survival without protection) scored 5 at medium confidence, reflecting the ambiguous position of an active religious institution: congregational ownership and ongoing use provide an endogenous preservation incentive, but the absence of nrhp listing, unknown architect prominence, and no documented recent capital investment leave the counterfactual uncertain. axis b (tourist/cultural currency) scored 0 with unknown confidence due to a complete absence of google review data, wikipedia pageview data, walking-tour documentation, or nps designation — the building generates no measurable external visitation signal in available datasets. axes c and d (subsidy efficiency and externality load) scored 0, but for structurally different reasons: c is 0 because no mills act contract, federal htc, or subsidy instrument of any kind was identified, meaning there is no subsidy relationship to evaluate; d is 0 at medium confidence because the 311 and encampment data confirm minimal negative spillover onto surroundings. axis e (neighborhood health) scored 4 at high confidence, driven by a below-median hhi and a five-year population decline of 614 — the tract is under modest but genuine stress. axis f (alternative use value) scored 0 with unknown confidence because parcel acreage, zoning capacity, and tpa/toc tier data were all unavailable, making redevelopment potential impossible to quantify. the candidate flag conditions are not evaluated here because the typology field is explicitly 'religious,' which triggers the exemption track regardless of axis scores. the overall confidence is rated unknown due to the volume of missing fields across b, c, and f axes; this limits the analytical utility of the scores but does not affect the exempt determination.
sources
- la311: https://data.lacity.org/resource/h65r-yf5i.json?$where=within_circle(location%2c%2034.02530492456264%2c%20-118.31983420385843%2c%20152)%20and%20createddate%20%3e%20'2024-05-10'&$limit=1000 --- _generated by hcm-1200 orchestrator on 2026-05-10t23:42:28.726z._