Neighborhood overview
Lincoln Park is in Pomona, California. Pomona's Lincoln Park Historic District, including Columbia, Jefferson, Lincoln, Kingsley and Garfield Avenues and Alvarado Street.
Nearly all of the district is zoned Single Family-6,000 ft, with a small share in the Corridors Specific Plan and Administrative Professional zones along its edges.
The City's district brochure says Lincoln Park was designated on May 4, 1998, as Pomona's first residential neighborhood designated as a local historic district, and counts 802 properties between Garey Avenue, Towne Avenue, Holt Avenue and McKinley Avenue. The district is named for Lincoln Park, built in 1910 at its center as Pomona's third park and deeded to the City by the San Antonio Heights Syndicate on condition that the land be used only as a park. Closer to Holt the brochure points to Victorian-era, transitional and early Craftsman bungalow homes, shifting to Craftsman and Revival styles to the north.
The City's Historic District Boundaries layer maps the Lincoln Park Historic District at about 261 acres. The streets with the most parcels in it include Columbia Avenue, Jefferson Avenue, Lincoln Avenue, Alvarado Street, Kingsley Avenue and Garfield Avenue.
Homes & property types
Mostly single-family homes on lots zoned for 6,000 square feet. The City's layer marks each parcel as contributing or noncontributing, and that status shapes what changes are reviewed.
What makes properties here different
Find out whether your home is a contributing or noncontributing parcel, and gather the permits and any City approvals for past exterior work. Buyers of historic-district homes ask about both. Price against other Lincoln Park sales of similar age and condition.
Living in the neighborhood
The district is mapped as a single historic neighborhood, so the streets around a home are covered by the same district rules.
Neighborhood FAQ
- How big is the Lincoln Park Historic District?
- The City of Pomona's GIS maps it at about 261 acres, with roughly 800 parcels, about 690 of them marked as contributing.
- Do I need City approval to change the outside of a Lincoln Park home?
- Ask the City of Pomona Planning Division before you start. It can tell you which approvals apply to exterior work on your parcel in the Lincoln Park Historic District.
Other Pomona neighborhoods
Sources
- City of Pomona GIS — Historic Districts map service (district boundaries and contributing parcels) — retrieved 2026-10-15.
- City of Pomona — Historic Preservation — retrieved 2026-10-15.
- City of Pomona — Lincoln Park Historic District brochure (designation May 4, 1998; 802 properties) — retrieved 2026-10-15.
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