Echo park

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This view of the houses on the hill behind Echo Park Lake from Belmont Avenue, probably where it meets Clinton, captures the Spanish style boathouse (behind the chains on the left). The lake was originally built in the 1860s as a drinking water reservoir. The 1896 Victorian style Echo Park boathouse was replaced in 1933 with a Spanish style structure that included a lighthouse. Today Echo Park Lake is a detention basin in the city's storm drain system. In 2003 the boathouse was determined eligible for listing on the California Register and in 2006 Echo Park was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument 896.