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The 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill

The 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jonathan Lane, of the consortium Revolution 250, about why the Battle of Bunker Hill won't be reenacted at Bunker Hill to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: June 17, 1775 - the Battle of Bunker Hill, a major conflict in the American …

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Wei Xiong Liang, center, and other residents stand outside their fire-damaged apartment building on Bunker Hill Avenue in Chinatown. Neighbors say their fears came true after a fire in a large apartment building in the Chinatown neighborhood early Friday left six people injured, including two firefighters, and temporarily displaced dozens of families. VIDEO | 00:09 Neighbors on Bunker Hill Avenue …

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A view of Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles shows the Gas Company Tower to the left of the tallest building, U.S. Bank Tower. SoCalGas announced plans to move its offices from the Gas Company Tower to Two California Plaza. Southern California Gas Co. is planning to move from its longtime headquarters after signing the largest office lease of the …

A pedestrian walks past Walt Disney Concert Hall on a sunny April morning in downtown Los Angeles, where two major expansions of cultural institutions are in the works. Bunker Hill will soon have the largest concentration of buildings designed by Frank Gehry in the world and promises to become a cultural center “like no other place,” the architect told the …

As his latest Los Angeles mega-project neared completion, Frank Gehry was offered an apartment with sweeping views high up in the 45-story Grand LA complex he designed on Bunker Hill in downtown. Disney Hall doesn’t look like an outlier.” VIDEO | 02:57 Frank Gehry gives a tour of the $1-billion mixed-use complex, the Grand Frank Gehry gives a tour of …

L.A.’s Music Center was built as an aloof city on a hill. Can a remade plaza change that?

In 1964, when the first phase of the Music Center — the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion — opened in downtown Los Angeles, designer and painter Millard Sheets wrote a tribute to architect Welton Becket’s Modernist temple to the arts in the pages of The Times: “They have created a form that will stand high on the hill and high in spirit …

Bunker Hill once was a neighborhood. Then progress came to town

Hugh and Kim Grace stand atop a barren Bunker Hill in 1973 and pretend to touch the top of City Hall in the distance. The Music Center, which opened in stages, starting in 1964 — around the same time the city was bulldozing the last boarding houses that sheltered elderly and immigrants — has been described as the project that …

Timeline: How Bunker Hill transformed Los Angeles and Grand Avenue

Grand Avenue is home to a cluster of architectural and artistic achievements that attract millions of people a year, locals and tourists whose energy carries the promise of a vibrant urban center on Bunker Hill. The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency studied how to redevelop 135 acres of the Bunker Hill neighborhood “classified by local and federal authorities as a slum …

From the Archives: The Castle on Bunker Hill

The 1960s Bunker Hill redevelopment forced the removal of many Victorian-era homes. A story in the May 18, 1964, Los Angeles Times reported: "The Castle," a faded former mansion atop Bunker Hill, has been given a new lease on life. The Castle, along with the Salt Box — another landmark Bunker Hill home — were moved in March 1969 to …

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