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Sawtelle, Los Angeles — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Sawtelle is a neighborhood of West Los Angeles that grew around the Sawtelle Veterans Home and held a city charter of its own from 1899.
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Where to stay in Sawtelle
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
The Sawtelle Veterans Home sets the ground for a stay here. Beds fall inside West Los Angeles rather than a resort quarter, so the choice runs between the streets the Pacific Land Company developed as the City of Sawtelle and the outer blocks that face the rest of the Westside. It is a small neighborhood.
Sawtelle is small enough to keep every part of it within reach of the same handful of streets that carried the city before Los Angeles annexed it.
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Around the Sawtelle Veterans Home
The Sawtelle Veterans Home, first the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, is the institution this neighborhood gathered around before it was ever a city. Beds are limited here, so book early.Find hotels in Around the Sawtelle Veterans Homean address on the blocks the Pacific Land Company laid out under W. E. SawtelleThe old City of Sawtelle streets
The Pacific Land Company developed these streets for a city that stood on its own from 1899 until the City of Los Angeles annexed it, and they carry the name of the company's manager. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in The old City of Sawtelle streetsnights that need the rest of West Los Angeles more than Sawtelle itselfThe Westside edge of Sawtelle
Sawtelle's outer blocks are the ones from which the rest of Los Angeles opens up quickest. Beds are limited here, so book early.Find hotels in The Westside edge of SawtelleHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Sawtelle
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 about seven square kilometres of West Los Angeles, a compact block of the Westside inside the City of Los Angeles in California.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Sawtelle?
Around the Sawtelle Veterans Home: a room beside the grounds that began as the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The old City of Sawtelle streets: an address on the blocks the Pacific Land Company laid out under W. E. Sawtelle. The Westside edge of Sawtelle: nights that need the rest of West Los Angeles more than Sawtelle itself.
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Updated October 2026