Wilshire Crest
Wilshire Crest is a hotel in Los Angeles, Southern California, California. Wilshire Crest is situated nearby to the neighborhood Carthay, as well as near Petersen Automotive Museum.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Petersen Automotive Museum.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits. Los Angeles County Museum of Art is situated 2,000 feet east of Wilshire Crest.
Petersen Automotive Museum
Museum
Photo: Mbodell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Petersen Automotive Museum is an automobile museum located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. One of the world's largest collections, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a nonprofit organization specializing in automobile history and related educational programs. Petersen Automotive Museum is situated 1,500 feet southeast of Wilshire Crest.
La Brea Tar Pits
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
La Brea Tar Pits are an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carthay and Little Ethiopia.
Carthay
Neighborhood
Carthay is a half-square-mile neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It contains Carthay Circle, Carthay Square and South Carthay. There are three Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zones in Carthay.
Little Ethiopia
Neighborhood
Photo: Ucla90024, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Ethiopia is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles. It is known for its collection of Ethiopian restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques and thrift stores.
Park La Brea
Neighborhood
Park La Brea is an apartment community in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles, California developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944.
Wilshire Crest
- Type: Hotel
- Also known as: “Wilshire Crest Hotel”
- Categories: building, tourism, hotel building, and accommodation
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.06473° or 34° 3′ 53″ northLongitude
-118.36535° or 118° 21′ 55″ westElevation
174 feet (53 metres)Inception
1946Height
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
85633J7M+VVOpenStreetMap ID
way 428628493OpenStreetMap feature
building=hotelOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=hotelGeoNames ID
9949320
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