J. P. Widney High School

Joseph Pomeroy Widney High School, also known as Widney Career Preparatory & Transition Center, is a special-education magnet high school in Los Angeles, California.

Type: Building
Description: high school in California, United States
Also known as: “Joseph Pomeroy Widney High School”
Address: 2302 South Gramercy Place, Los Angeles, CA 90018

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Saint Sophia Cathedral and Van Buren Place Historic District.

Saint Sophia Cathedral

Church

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Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox church built in 1952, in what was then the Greek section of Central Los Angeles, California. It is located at West 15th Street and South Normandie Avenue in the Byzantine-Latino Quarter… Saint Sophia Cathedral is situated 1 mile northeast of J. P. Widney High School.

Van Buren Place Historic District

Historic site

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The Van Buren Place Historic District is located in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, California. Van Buren Place Historic District is situated 1 mile east of J. P. Widney High School.

Expo/Western station

Railway station

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Expo/Western station is an at-grade light rail station on the E Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located in the center median of Exposition Boulevard at its intersection with Western Avenue, after which the station is named, in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. Expo/Western station is situated 1¼ miles south of J. P. Widney High School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jefferson Park and Arlington Heights.

Jefferson Park

Quarter

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Jefferson Park is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of the City of Los Angeles, California. Located within the West Adams district, there are fourteen Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the neighborhood, and in 1987, the 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival Jefferson Branch Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places.