The Hollywood Forever Cemetery was designated a historic-cultural monument by the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday following a unanimous recommendation from the city's Cultural Heritage Commission.
The cemetery was included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, the cemetery's 100th anniversary. On June 25, Councilman Mitch O'Farrell began the city's effort to include the cemetery on its own list of historic-cultural monuments.
The monument designation was recommended for the cemetery's association with the early development of Hollywood and the western expansion of Los Angeles during the 20th century, as well as for its association with the development of the cemetery industry and Jewish burial facilities in the city. Goers noted that much of the cemetery's early decades were caught up in litigation, so Earnshaw's vision wasn't executed immediately, and much of the cemetery's period of growth occurred in the 1920s.
"This really also reflected the growing Jewish community in Los Angeles, and also their westward expansion as well, as Jewish enclaves emerged in mid-Wilshire and Hollywood, other temples were constructed further westward and there was a desire to be closer to those centers of faith and to have facilities that were closer to where they resided rather than having to travel," Goers said.
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