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Around Pomona

Pomona, beyond the house.

The neighbourhoods, the daily rhythm and the drive to everywhere else — the part of a home search a listing sheet never covers.

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This guide covers

  • Lincoln Park Historic District
  • Wilton Heights Historic District
  • Hacienda Park Historic District
  • Phillips Ranch
  • Pomona Arts Colony / Antique Row
  • Spadra
  • Ganesha Hills

The desk's real neighbourhood file for Pomona — not a citywide average.

What is actually here

The desk is building a real map of Pomona — outdoors, local flavor, the commute and daily errands — rather than printing a generic list.

Outdoors

  • Pomona Civic Center ParkPublic park, in town.
  • Tony Cerda ParkPublic park, in town.
  • Washington ParkPublic park, in town.
  • Hamilton ParkPublic park, in town.
  • Ralph Welch ParkPublic park, about 1.6 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • Garfield ParkPublic park, about 1.8 km from the city centre, straight line.

Wine & Local Flavor

  • 3rd Street Wine ShopWine shop, about 5.3 km from the city centre, straight line.

Getting Around

  • Pomona–DowntownRail station, in town.
  • CA 71Freeway through the area — the Chino Valley Freeway.
  • Pomona–NorthRail station, about 4.3 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • La Verne/FairplexRail station, about 5.0 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • Brackett FieldAirport, about 5.0 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • CA 57Freeway through the area — the Orange Freeway.

Food & Daily Life

  • Wish You Were Here Coffee RoastersCafe, in town.
  • Thirsty Girl CoffeeCafe, in town.
  • Gud 2 Go CafeCafe, in town.
  • Donahoo’s Golden ChickenRestaurant, about 1.5 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • Miss SichuanRestaurant, about 1.8 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • Joo's MarketSupermarket, about 1.8 km from the city centre, straight line.

Places from OpenStreetMap, September 10. © OpenStreetMap contributors. Distances are straight-line from the city centre, not drive times.

The neighbourhoods

Where Pomona actually breaks down, in the desk's own words.

Full neighbourhood file →

Lincoln Park Historic District

A 45-block, 230-acre district of 821 structures, mostly single-family homes built from the 1890s through the 1940s in late Victorian, Craftsman, Colonial, Mission/Spanish, and Tudor Revival styles; designated in 1998 as Pomona's first and largest residential historic district and listed on the National Register in 2004.

Wilton Heights Historic District

Designated August 2, 1999, this district holds the most architecturally eclectic mix of the city's historic areas, dominated by Craftsman cottages and bungalows.

Hacienda Park Historic District

Designated October 6, 2003 as Pomona's fourth historic district, its homes span nearly a century of the city's residential building history.

Phillips Ranch

A master-planned community in southwest Pomona developed starting in 1965 by Louis Lesser Enterprises on the former Phillips Ranch land — part of the 1837 Rancho San Jose grant that had passed to Louis Phillips in 1864; mostly built out through the 1970s, with condo phases added in the 1980s.

Pomona Arts Colony / Antique Row

Centered on West 2nd Street in downtown, this district's live/work lofts and galleries occupy adaptive reuse of pre-World War II industrial buildings, including the Union Block West, one of Pomona's oldest structures; Antique Row along Garey Avenue and 2nd Street is one of the country's older antique-mall districts.

Spadra

A stagecoach town founded in 1866 by William 'Uncle Billy' Rubottom, once a Southern Pacific Railroad terminus with hundreds of residents; annexed into Pomona in 1964.

A day around here

Ordinary life in Pomona, the way it actually runs — not a highlight reel.

Morning

Coffee at Wish You Were Here Coffee Roasters, then whatever the day actually needs.

Afternoon

An hour at Pomona Civic Center Park, between the errands that never show up on a listing sheet.

Evening

Dinner at Donahoo’s Golden Chicken, then a short drive back to whichever neighbourhood you call home.

Illustrative scenes, not photographs of the places named. Places from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Homes near here

Real listings live in Pomona right now — not a wish list.

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Active listings, as of September 22. Photos are illustrative — not photographs of the address on the card.

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