Franklin Avenue is a street in

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. It is the northernmost thoroughfare in

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, north of

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, and the southern border of the

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. It is the center of the neighborhood of Franklin Village. Franklin Avenue begins as a residential street off Sierra Bonita Avenue. Continuing east, Franklin is the southern border of

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, and turns into a major east–west thoroughfare in the Hollywood Hills. Franklin Avenue ends in

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Landmarks and neighborhoods

From west to east,

Magic Castle The Magic Castle is a performance venue, restaurant, and clubhouse for the Academy of Magical Arts for magicians and magic enthusiasts in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. The Academy was started in 1952 by ...

is furthest west, at Franklin and N Orange Drive. The first house in the Hollywood area, built by Tomás Urquidez in 1854, was at the intersection of what would become Franklin and Outpost Drive.

Hollywood United Methodist Church Hollywood United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church located at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Its English Gothic architecture and the giant ...

is located Franklin and

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, and

Montecito Apartments Montecito Apartments is a large apartment building in Hollywood, California, United States. It was built in 1935 in the zig-zag Art Deco style and was the home for many Hollywood celebrities, including James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Percy Kilbride ...

is located at Franklin and Cherokee Avenue. Hollywood Tower, often cited as the inspiration for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at

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in Florida, California, Paris and Tokyo, is located one block west of Franklin and Gower Street, an intersection that has been cited as one of the better places to photograph the Hollywood Sign.

Château Élysée Château Élysée is a 1920s replica of a 17th-century French-Normandy chateau in Hollywood, California. Owned by the Church of Scientology, it is the home of Celebrity Centre International and the Manor Hotel. It is located at 5930 Franklin A ...

, a former residential apartment house for movie stars and now the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre, is located in the Franklin Village neighborhood at Franklin and Bronson Avenue, as is

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and

Villa Carlotta Villa Carlotta is a villa and botanical garden in Tremezzo on Lake Como in Northern Italy. Today the villa is a museum, whose collection includes works by sculptors such as Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen, and Giovanni Migliara; painters such ...

.Vincent, Roger. (2014, August 14)
''Old Hollywood landmark Villa Carlotta apartments sold''

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Immaculate Heart High School is located at Franklin and Western Avenue, and

John Sowden House John Sowden House, also known as the "Jaws House" or the "Franklin House", is a residence built in 1926 in the Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California by Lloyd Wright. The house is noted for its use of o ...

is located at Franklin and

Normandie Avenue Normandie Avenue is one of Los Angeles County's longest north–south streets, with a stretch of about . It lies between Western Avenue to the west and Vermont Avenue to the east. The avenue begins in the south by branching off from Vermont A ...

. Shakespeare Bridge is located further east, near the intersection of Franklin and St. George Street in the Franklin Hills area of the

district of Los Angeles.

References

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