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Historic Bunker Hill 3D Experience

Part of the larger Bunker Hill Refrain project, our team is developing a web-based interactive experience of historic Bunker Hill that will allow users to immerse themselves in the lost neighborhood and access stories and information about people and places via archival sources and oral histories.

To date, the Historic Bunker Hill 3D Experience covers sixteen contiguous blocks (one square mile) of the neighborhood. 

Historical Sources

  • architectural drawing of bunker hill

    Architectural Drawings

    Architectural sketches created by the WPA in 1940 to assist in the construction of a scale model of downtown Los Angeles. The physical sketches are held by the City of Los Angeles City Clerk, City Archive and Records.
  • aerieal view of bunker hill from 1941

    Aerial Photography

    Photos from UC Santa Barbara’s Aerial Photography Collection, in particular, images from Flight C-7334, (frames 57 and 58), Aug. 14, 1941.
  • photo of 251 south bynker hill from 1955

    Historical Photographs

    Historical photographs from the period, primarily from USC Libraries Special Collections, the Huntington Library, Los Angeles Public Library, the California State Library's SoCa Digitization Project, and the Getty.
  • sanborn map of bunker hill

    Sanborn Maps

    Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps from Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California .Sanborn Map Company, - May 1950; Vol. 1. Library of Congress.

The Bunker Hill Flyover Experience

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The Dorlew-Raymond Apartments Experience

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Bunker Hill VR

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Only available for use at the Ahmanson Lab. 

The Bunker Hill 3D Experience

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A web-based interactive experience of historic Bunker Hill built with Scalar and Unity (in development).

Project Directors

  • mats borges

    Mats Borges

    Project Coordinator, Ahmanson Lab
  • phil ethington

    Phil Ethington

    Professor of History, Political Science and Spatial Sciences, USC
  • curtis fletcher

    Curtis Fletcher

    Director, Ahmanson Lab
  • suzi noruschat

    Suzanne Noruschat

    Southern California Studies Specialist, USC Libraries
  • meredith

    Meredith Drake Reitan

    Associate Dean & Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Southern California
  • andy

    Andy Rutkowski

    Visualization Specialist, USC Libraries

3D Modeling and Development

  • matt cohen

    Matt Cohen

    3D Modeling
    (2021-2022)
  • gwen

    Gwen Foo

    3D Modeling
    (Current)
  • catherine gau

    Rin Guo

    3D Modeling
    (2023)
  • pareena

    Pareena Padwal

    Unity Development
    (2022-2023)
  • jalak

    Jalak Rughani

    3D Modeling
    (2012-2022)
  • jessica

    Jessica Sheng

    3D Modeling
    (2023-2024)