Sepulveda House (Los Angeles)

12 W. Olvera St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Open: Daily 9AM-4PM

Today home to the El Pueblo National Historical Monument Visitors' Center, the Sepulveda house was once the private home of one of the most powerful families in early Los Angeles. The Sepulveda House was built by Eloisa Martinez de Sepulveda in 1887, at a time when all predictions were that the population boom of the 1880s would last. However, Señora Sepulveda's hopes for Main Street were not fulfilled and by 1900 the area around her house was mostly industrial. Since the turn of the 20th century, Sepulveda House has been a bordello, a tearoom and the USO canteen during World War II.

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