University Hills

University Hills is a district on the East Side of Los Angeles, California. It is the site of California State University, Los Angeles. University Hills is bordered by El Sereno on the north, Hillside Village on the west, City Terrace on the south, Alhambra on the north-east, and Monterey Park on the south-east. The street boundaries are Valley Boulevard and Marianna Avenue to the north and west, Eastern Avenue and the San Bernardino Freeway to the south, and Interstate 710 to the east.

University Hills is on a site that once housed one of California's 36 original adobes. It was built in 1776 by Franciscan missionaries and destroyed by a fire in 1908. These lands once were part of a Spanish land grant known as the Rancho Rosa Castilla, created by the family of Juan Batista Batz, a Basque rancher from northern Spain who settled the district in its early years.