Sawtelle, Los Angeles — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Sawtelle?

Sawtelle has nothing the register calls a landmark. What the neighborhood has instead is the Sawtelle Veterans Home, founded as the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the reason a settlement gathered on this part of the Westside at all. The Veterans Home is the entire list.

Anything else worth a walk lies outside the boundary, in West Los Angeles or the wider City of Los Angeles, since the record for Sawtelle names no church, museum or house of its own.

What is the history of Sawtelle?

Sawtelle was a city before it was a neighborhood. The Pacific Land Company developed the ground and named it for its manager, W. E. Sawtelle, while the settlement itself gathered around the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, later the Sawtelle Veterans Home. Incorporation came in 1899.

The City of Sawtelle kept its independence for fewer than 30 years before the City of Los Angeles annexed it, which is how a chartered city in California became one more district of West Los Angeles.

Where is Sawtelle?

Sawtelle covers under three square kilometres of West Los Angeles, a compact block of the Westside inside the City of Los Angeles in California.