HISTORIC LOS ANGELES

818 South Bonnie Brae Street

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Los Angeles's iconic Victorian was designed by architects Bradbeer & Ferris in 1894. Still standing at 818 South Bonnie Brae Street, it was sold by its original owner in 1898 to Frederick Mitchell Mooers, a sometime newspaper reporter—for the Brooklyn Eagle and later the Los Angeles Express—and adventurous dipsomaniac who said to his partners upon discovering the Yellow Aster gold mine in Kern County, "All we've got to do is shovel into it and be Vanderbilts."

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