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From City to Sea

  • Sep 13, 2022
  • 2 min read

Not every Whitley Heights home in the freeway’s path was destroyed. A select few were relocated, both near (within the neighborhood) and far — 40 miles away in Huntington Beach, as was the case for 6793 Whitley Terrace.


Black-and-white hillside neighborhood with Spanish-style houses, palm trees, dirt road, and mountains; red oval highlights homes
6793 Whitley Terrace (LAPL)

After 28 years at the corner of Iris Drive (where its front door was located; see below), in 1950 the three-bedroom Spanish Colonial Revival was severed in half vertically and transported from the Hollywood Hills to Orange County.


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