Mid-City, College Streets, South of Wilshire, Santa Monica, CA
By Kim & Kristine Halverson, Sisters, Realtors
(Sotheby's & Knipe ERA)
Mid-City, College Streets, South of WilshireMidtown Santa Monica stretches from 14th street to Centinela at its westernmost and easternmost extremities, and Wilshire Boulevard to Olympic Boulevard in its north and south. It’s zip code is 90404.Midtown is less congested than many other parts of the city. Planned on a regular grid, Midtown Santa Monica was once home to a number of picturesque Craftsman houses and brightly painted Victorians, though only occasional examples of these can still be found. In the early 1940s the first wave of suburbanization overtook this part of the city and many preexisting structures were razed and replaced with tiny square California Bungalows with green lawns and small, private backyards. In the 1960s a large number of these increasingly dilapidated struc...
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