Los Angeles Pacific College (defunct)
Los Angeles Pacific College was a four-year, liberal-arts college located on 5732 Ebey Avenue in the Hermon neighborhood of Hispanic East Los Angeles, California. The school was founded in 1903 to teach children and youth in grades one to twelve, by a group of laymen and staff of the Free Methodist Church, an Arminian Holiness sect. The campus also hosted a small all-women’s (junior) college from 1911 to 1960. The college failed in 1965. History. The founders of the school were the first developers of the urban community of Hermon in  the city of Los Angeles, when it was still rural and tucked in the hills. Initially called Los Angeles Free Methodist Seminary, it was not a seminary for the education of ministers, but a school where children of the community could be taught in a Christian atmosphere. The Seminary (grades 1-12) opened in the fall of 1904 with 70 students. In 1911, the seminary added a junior college for women, the first in the state of California. As the small community of Hermon grew, a four-year college course was added in 1934 and the school came to be  called Los Angeles Pacific College (LAPC). Part of the Free Methodist denomination, it taught the Free-Will System of religion. In 1960, males were admitted; in 1961, an instructor created a football team for all male students regardless of ability, which practiced in public parks. Following a major Chicago school fire in 1958, the city of Los Angeles' Department of Building and Safety began inspecting schools. Many of LAPC's aging bungalows were not up to code, so the Free Methodist Church sold off the assets. Official copies of student records, transcripts, and diplomas would all be lost when the  college was bulldozed in 1965. The corner lot became a liquor store, catty corner from the hill, which became Pacific Christian High School, carrying on the legacy of the original founders' concept of Christian classes in the Hermon neighborhood. A remnant of that lasted until 2004, when the high school closed due to financial failure. The site is now Los Angeles College Prep Academy, a secular, public school.