Chinatown East and West Gates
Chinatown East Gate and Chinatown West Gate are historic entrance gates located in Los Angeles's Chinatown neighborhood in California. Built in the late 1930s, they were declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in 2005.Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Monument
- Description: gates in Los Angeles, California, U.S
- Also known as: “Chinatown West Gate”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chinatown station and Chavez Ravine.
Chinatown station
Railway station
Chinatown station is an elevated light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located along Spring Street above College Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, just north of Downtown Los Angeles. Chinatown station is situated 960 feet southeast of Chinatown East and West Gates.
Chavez Ravine
Stadium
Photo: Frederick Dennstedt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Baseball has been considered America's pastime for over a century and today remains one of the biggest sports in the country. Baseball is played at a number of amateur levels, from Little League to High School to College, and professional leagues range from the lowest Minor Leagues to Major League Baseball. Chavez Ravine is situated 2,900 feet north of Chinatown East and West Gates.
Los Angeles City Hall
Town hall
Photo: Brion VIBBER, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Los Angeles City Hall, completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council. Los Angeles City Hall is situated 1 mile south of Chinatown East and West Gates.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chinatown and Naud Junction.
Chinatown
Suburb
Photo: J3ff, Public domain.
Chinatown is a neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938.
Naud Junction
Locality
Naud Junction was an area in northern Downtown Los Angeles, California. It was located at the junction of Main Street and Alameda Street, where Southern Pacific Railroad trains veered off Alameda to tracks along Alhambra Avenue and the Los Angeles River.
Civic Center
Quarter
Photo: Brion VIBBER, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, and a complex of city, county, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses.
Chinatown East and West Gates
- Categories: gate and historic site
- Location: California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.06581° or 34° 3′ 57″ northLongitude
-118.23788° or 118° 14′ 16″ westInception
1938Open location code
85633Q86+8ROpenStreetMap ID
way 905542288OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=ceremonial_gateWikidata ID
Q113484360
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