🏔️ GLASSELL PARK

🏛️ Architectural Houses

Van de Kamp Bakery — Fletcher Drive & San Fernando Road (1930) Not a house but the neighborhood's most iconic structure. The Van de Kamp Bakery Building was completed in 1931 and designed by J. Edwin Hopkins in a distinctive Dutch Renaissance Revival style, with a windmill motif and elaborate facade. It is a designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. The bakery supplied bread to markets across LA until 1990 and anchored the neighborhood's identity as an industrial baking district. Preserved after a neighborhood campaign defeated a proposed Home Depot, it now operates as an education center. The neon sign glowing over the freeway is one of the more quietly poetic sights on the Eastside. Topla Condos

The Storybook Castle — (1932) A 1932 storybook castle home in Eagle Rock/Glassell Park with a beautiful large yard, brick patio, fountain, and rose gardens. The interior includes a 1940s jukebox and piano, period appliances, and a finished garage used as a green room for productions. The kind of place that reads as impossible in any other city. Giggster

True Crime

The Drew Street "Satellite House" — 3304 Drew St., Glassell Park (demolished 2009) (See Highland Park section for full entry.) The nerve center of the Avenues' most violent clique sat technically within Glassell Park, not Highland Park. The small two-bedroom stucco house was tricked out with two satellite dishes, a laser tripwire, and a camera surveillance system. Police said it was used to sell drugs and plan drive-by shootings on behalf of the Mexican Mafia. After numerous raids the city won a lawsuit to close it as a public nuisance, and a bulldozer tore it down in 2009 in a public exorcism attended by city officials. NPR