Park La Brea, Los Angeles

Park La Brea (Spanish: La Brea—"The tar", after the nearby La Brea Tar Pits) is an apartment community in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles, California developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944. Work started in 1941, initially featuring thirty-one two-story buildings with 2,600 apartments, in 1950 eighteen 13-story towers were added.