Fremont Place is Los Angeles’ first gated community and only gated community in Hancock Park. Its iconic concrete pillars mark main entrance on Wilshire Boulevard at the end of Rossmore. This 50-acre tract was originally developed in 1911. The first mansion was built in 1916 and it original had 48 home lots. Over time some of these homes have been subdivided and today there are 73 homes in this community. In the 1920’s, Hancock Park was one of the most affluent areas in Los Angeles and drew celebrities, movie starts and promenade civic leaders.
In the 1900s and 1920s, as the affluent residents of Los Angeles began to migrate up Wilshire Boulevard, the Greater Wilshire/Hancock Park area started to fill with luxury homes, estates, and mansions. The economic boom of the 1920s sealed Hancock Park's fate as an affluent area of the city; its enclaves like Fremont Place and Windsor Square attracted industrialists, motion picture stars, and civic leaders.
The Fremont Place Association (FPA) is a non-profit corporation that is a cooperative homeowner’s association that governs the gated community. It covers the 24-hour private guard gate security, coordinates the neighborhood security, maintains the internal streets and lighting system, provides general liability insurance for common areas, collection of filming license fees and regulations of filming in the community and provides weekly backyard pick up of garbage and recyclables.
