tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83767158653932939692024-03-05T09:50:34.886-05:00HISTORIC LOS ANGELESA MiscellanyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8376715865393293969.post-49967875002584968342018-03-04T11:41:00.015-05:002023-01-23T08:37:02.106-05:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span></b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>ISTORIC LOS ANGELES </b>encompasses eight sites offering individual house histories of one entirely vanished gated street, </span><b>BERKELEY SQUARE</b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">; another gated community of which a single house remains, <b>WESTMORELAND PLACE</b>;<b> </b>one seminal thoroughfare still very much in place but entirely, or almost entirely, devoid of its original array of single-family residences, </span><b>WILSHIRE BOULEVARD</b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">; another key east-west street once the spine of the original "West Los Angeles," <b>ADAMS BOULEVARD</b>; thriving 110-year-old <b>WINDSOR SQUARE, </b>a subdivision too often lumped in with <b>HANCOCK PARK</b> but one with perhaps 95 percent of its original houses, including many moved from Wilshire Boulevard as it fell to commerce; one partially surviving West Adams subdivision adjacent to well-known Chester Place, but predating it—</span><b>ST. JAMES PARK</b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">—and </span><b>FREMONT PLACE</b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">, opened in 1911 in a new Wilshire district becoming known as the "West End" of Los Angeles. Below are links to these histories; stories of houses and institutions elsewhere in the city are in <b>MISCELLANY </b>below.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2012/02/818-south-bonnie-brae-street-please.html">818 South Bonnie Brae Street</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2014/12/757-south-westlake-avenue-please-also.html">757 South Westlake Avenue</a><br />
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<a href="http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2012/01/2443-south-western-avenue-please-also.html"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">2443 South Western Avenue</span></a><br />
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JAMES PARK</a> <a href="http://westmorelandplacelosangeles.blogspot.com/">WESTMORELAND PLACE</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: verdana;">ADAMS BOULEVARD</a> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://hancockparklosangeles.blogspot.com/">HANCOCK PARK</a></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, CLICK </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/">HERE</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>wned successively by three larger-than-life characters—two of them real people—Wilshire Boulevard's most imposing house, while having vanished 60 years ago, remains immortalized as one of Hollywood's great set pieces, one addressed in cinemaland as 10086 Sunset Boulevard. Epic mythologies surrounding the names Desmond, Jenkins, and Getty converge even today at the northwest corner of Wilshire and Irving boulevards, at least to wonderful people out there in the dark.</span><div><div><br /></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeAf2rHL0XhNx9Q6XrGX145RMyztx1uXEEgZeSoMXVswEdEcs1k9-_e7aWH-UXoR-bnDx1pTBBJFhgnUqEAI1qmy_XA5RGT4IiuNX4x-FfUh_DU0NOKrvx_GuILj0QvFyd-1OPtiGgiqnq/s512/Fullscreen%2520capture%2520652014%2520125159%2520PM.bmp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeAf2rHL0XhNx9Q6XrGX145RMyztx1uXEEgZeSoMXVswEdEcs1k9-_e7aWH-UXoR-bnDx1pTBBJFhgnUqEAI1qmy_XA5RGT4IiuNX4x-FfUh_DU0NOKrvx_GuILj0QvFyd-1OPtiGgiqnq/s512/Fullscreen%2520capture%2520652014%2520125159%2520PM.bmp.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">William O. Jenkins lasted longer as a remnant of Gilded Age<br />capitalism than did most men; near the end of his reign<br /> and life, he was satirized as the "Lord and Master<br /> of Mexico" on an August 1959 magazine cover.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was William Oscar Jenkins, called a "mysterious buccaneer-businessman" by <i>Time</i> magazine in 1960 and often cited as the man who amassed the largest personal fortune in Mexico, where he was based, who hired architect T. Beverley Keim to design the most monumental of Los Angeles houses in 1922, many decades before even the most well-financed piles in the city began to resemble gargantuan, gilded tract houses. Keim's sprawling 14-bedroom effort, which would be addressed discreetly as 641 South Irving Boulevard, took up little of Jenkins's assemblage of four lots of the original <a href="https://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/">Windsor Square</a> subdivision, plus part of another—a slightly irregular, 360-foot-wide plot extending 225 feet north from Wilshire at its deepest. The Department of Buildings issued a permit for the foundation on April 12, 1922, one for the house itself the following October 30, and one for the garage and servants' quarters on July 16, 1923; mentioned in a number of <i>Los Angeles Times</i> articles during the next few years, the house was described as being near completion in October 1923—and then again as such in November 1925. As expatriates based in Mexico since 1901, the Jenkinses seemed to be in no hurry to occupy their new home; a contract to build walkways and drives wasn't given to May & Grimswood until January 1925. A tennis court was put in along the Lorraine Boulevard side but, curiously, while there was still plenty of room, no swimming pool was dug. The Jenkinses—William the buccaneer, his wife Mary, and their five daughters—appear to have moved in only by late 1925, and then not for very long or at least on any steady basis. It seems that their new house was to be something more along the lines of a prodigious pied-à-terre.</span><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-08URHHhG-ps/U58SwYzJWRI/AAAAAAAAQvw/sfGoCf8Nhzg/s359/641jenkinsmary2girlsborder.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="333" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-08URHHhG-ps/U58SwYzJWRI/AAAAAAAAQvw/sfGoCf8Nhzg/s359/641jenkinsmary2girlsborder.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">Mary Street Jenkins with two of her five daughters, Jane, 4,<br />and Margaret, 13, in a 1920 passport shot. The family<br />appears to have been thinking it wise to spend<br />more time in Los Angeles after Mr. Jenkins's<br />kidnapping; the new house was part<br />of a plan never fully realized.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>Whether the publicity-shy William O. Jenkins was as much the stereotypical gringo, buccaneer, exploiter, rumrunner, briber of government officials, tax-evader, or as parsimonious, philanthropic, or even as murderous as legend (and even Time) has had it is the subject of some debate. Revisionists now seem to see an imperfect man whose flaws are exaggerated and decontextualized, in the words of one. Whatever the truth of his actual behavior, Jenkins was probably no better or worse than any other American robber baron or capitalist behind whose fortune, as is said, lies a crime of one sort or the other—somebody was gotten ahead of, if not trampled.<br /><br />Born near Shelbyville, Tennessee, on May 18, 1878, with farming in his genes, William O. Jenkins had had enough of the provinces by the time he was kicked out of Vanderbilt after eloping with the smitten and apparently adventurous—if tubercular—Mary Lydia Street of Fayetteville. Migration to Texas apparently having been something of a tradition among Tennesseeans, the couple soon left home to seek their fortune in San Antonio. After only a few months, a visit south of the border resulted in a railroad man's chance offer of a job with excellent opportunity for advancement; W. O. seized upon it, considering it an expeditious way to prove his worth to his bride's snobbish family. Living for several years in Monterrey from December 1901, the Jenkinses moved to several other west-central Mexican towns before settling in southerly Puebla in December 1906, where W. O. found his ultimate kingdom. Beginning with modest jobs that led him into cotton manufacturing, he quickly made more than good in fabric; the outbreak of revolution in 1910, rather than driving him north toward home, only sharpened his capitalistic drive. Expatriate poster boy of the notion that industrial free enterprise is the driver of overall economic prosperity, especially one's own, Jenkins set out to buy great quantities of rural land in the state of Puebla with devalued currency. His game was offering high-interest loans to beleaguered landowners, many of them old Mexican families he considered unworthy, and then seizing their holdings on default—it would appear that Jenkins was taking out his simmering animosity toward the planter class that had snubbed him back in Tennessee. Later, one of the most unflattering characterizations of the man was the claim that some farmers had actually been killed to add their property to Jenkins's operations. He made an apparent habit of further greasing his own wheels by means of loans and campaign contributions to politicians and Catholic interests; by becoming a U.S. consular agent and founding a country club, he was able to climb socially among politicians and more established global expats, if not the useless old guard whose day was done. In his 2017 biography Jenkins of Mexico, Andrew Paxman equivocates necessarily on a complicated and odious man; while devoting 500 pages to him when perhaps 200 would suffice—though Mexican history after 1848 is covered in great detail—the author paints Jenkins as interested in little other than making money, his sole measure of success, even if it meant seeing little of his family, enjoying cruel humor, and condoning violence. (W. O. appears to have spent more time weeping by his wife's grave than with her while she was alive; his five daughters had nine marriages among them as they searched for father figures who were not just indulgent, but actually present.) Despite his alleged habit habit of wearing the same clothes every day and maintaining a modest office in Puebla and sometimes walking behind the streetcar Mary was riding in order to save carfare, he had a certain touch, at least until 1919. Unimpressed Zapatista rebels, who had had enough of Jenkins's <i>modus operandi</i>, kidnapped the buccaneer on October 19, the reverberations of which nearly caused an invasion from the north, despite claims in some quarters that the whole thing was some sort of hoax. Released a week later after a ransom of $150,000 in gold had been paid, it seems that afterward W. O. went on about his business pretty much as before, only stepping up, eventually and enormously, it must be said, his calculated philanthropy. By the 1950s, with less tolerance in the air for the old ways of capitalism, Jenkins and his sort had been duly characterized more or less as pirates, less than honorable perhaps if only because of their indiscreet profiles. <br /><br />While Jenkins's mythology includes the old clothes and a house in Puebla referred to in some sources as "middle class," there was to be a yacht and an oceanfront hilltop spread in Acapulco—not to mention the distinctly unhumble 641 South Irving Boulevard in Los Angeles. There was also diversification in the form of sugar plantations of prodigious output on some of his Mexican property acquisitions, the product of which may well have found its way in liquid form over the border into pre-Repeal America. Jenkins moved into banking and soap and cement and automobile distribution, and famously, into movie theaters. His influence in Mexican film exhibition during the 1940s and '50s made his business dealings something even a daughter could become engaged in, or at least become the face of. The oldest of the Jenkinses' five, Elizabeth, born in Monterrey in 1902, was described by <i>Variety</i> in 1946 as the "owner and operator of more than 80 theaters in Mexico and probably the top femme exhib in the world."<br /><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZhyjw0ZLRj6cgiaf9m_cKyGHI4UiRX07pERONekkZhyphenhyphenNIjwCcJ958yX3VgedBYXNYIuLoTUWfXbXKsq_T540nA9eQxz37uZr4Ez28LqcSAYOpJCtrI10qsMF-P55Q32FxPPVkjYm_zX0/s1600/WB641SIrvingWilshpicApr17SKYFNL.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZhyjw0ZLRj6cgiaf9m_cKyGHI4UiRX07pERONekkZhyphenhyphenNIjwCcJ958yX3VgedBYXNYIuLoTUWfXbXKsq_T540nA9eQxz37uZr4Ez28LqcSAYOpJCtrI10qsMF-P55Q32FxPPVkjYm_zX0/s640/WB641SIrvingWilshpicApr17SKYFNL.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">A rare view of the Wilshire Boulevard façade of the Jenkins house</div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">appeared in an architecture trade journal in 1926 soon after completion.</span></div></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Below: Seen from a perch a half block west and across Wilshire, with Lorraine</span></div></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Boulevard crossing just behind the second Wilshire Special streetlamp, the</span></div></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">decade-old house broods during the Depression as it waits for a second</span></div></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">act that came only in the movies, and sometimes not even then.</span></div></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqrP7HDFzNBbCe3FvpaSY38QLZ4AEH0q1JwNBFqr6-1Nnc9pmZiBJqfcecLndOaxtF2q56s_gtqqiyULqEmeZZQeS9LhUFLGEk9gxdCfs_PvQLz95IxmIYazYNJ4fBiJM3sWXOsmIKVHw/s1600/WB641SIrvacrossWBSKY.jpg"><img border="0" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqrP7HDFzNBbCe3FvpaSY38QLZ4AEH0q1JwNBFqr6-1Nnc9pmZiBJqfcecLndOaxtF2q56s_gtqqiyULqEmeZZQeS9LhUFLGEk9gxdCfs_PvQLz95IxmIYazYNJ4fBiJM3sWXOsmIKVHw/s640/WB641SIrvacrossWBSKY.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Within three years of the kidnapping, W. O. Jenkins was planning Los Angeles's biggest house to date. While he may have been thinking that a large residential presence in the states would </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">more firmly establish his family's American citizenship, it was Mary who was probably more concerned with personal safety. Facing Mrs. Bennet's dilemma, she might also have been wishing for the Misses Jenkins</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">—as </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">they would be referred to in the <i>Southwest Blue Book</i></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to have the opportunities of a society more homogeneous than Puebla's gaggle of cosmopolitan but less than top-drawer expatriate merchants and minor diplomats. Often described as having been occupied by the the family for a year and then abandoned, 641 South Irving actually appears to have been kept open and operating for the duration of their ownership. The girls—there were, in addition to Elizabeth, Margaret, Jane, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Mary (who later tried to become a film actress as "Susan Christie"), and Martha, known as "Tita"—all seem to have been educated in California, including at Marlborough a few blocks north of 641, and to have made the house their home while in the states.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Margaret's son W</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">illiam Jenkins Anstead, born in December 1931, also lived in Los Angeles with the family after his mother's second divorce within three years; in 1943 his name was flipped to William Anstead Jenkins when he was adopted by </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">his grandfather, becoming the Junior the old man seems to have always wanted. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">At any rate, the family was probably not aware on a daily basis of the changes occurring out on Wilshire Boulevard. Commerce had been rolling westward from downtown, beginning soon after the house was finished, and at the same time eastward from A. W. Ross's Miracle Mile, developing 25 blocks toward the Pacific. Traffic was increasing not only correspondingly but exponentially in pre-freeway Los Angeles. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">What prompted the Jenkinses to give up Wilshire Boulevard in 1936 and establish a new Los Angeles presence at Beverly Hills–adjacent 9315 Doheny Road is not known. Maybe their successor made them an offer they couldn't refuse. Having grown</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> up on residential Wilshire Boulevard, a man</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> lurking in the background </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">saw gold in the esteemed thoroughfare's turn to commerce, and he seemed to resent the neighborhood's resistance—and Windsor Square's resistance in particular—to becoming part of an uninterrupted Wilshire business corridor.</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj06v_8DJzmxLSthzARmryy0dIsfXs1LBeZ_hQb_z-Nx3pUNg66W90lBTNCJ9IYZZuapWNKoHvAm6AkGOpsIvyunA7bHBbcZYllzE8JpmDCIX3VSMfvsQhpDxkhP1Cpk9lin3Q-j_4HTG5T/s477/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206142014%252045020%2520PM.bmp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj06v_8DJzmxLSthzARmryy0dIsfXs1LBeZ_hQb_z-Nx3pUNg66W90lBTNCJ9IYZZuapWNKoHvAm6AkGOpsIvyunA7bHBbcZYllzE8JpmDCIX3VSMfvsQhpDxkhP1Cpk9lin3Q-j_4HTG5T/s477/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206142014%252045020%2520PM.bmp.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Given his precocious talents for making money and living well, it is<br />perhaps fitting that </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">J. Paul Getty appears</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> looking more like a<br />schoolboy than the 45-year-old, four-times-married man<br />he was in Gerald R. Brockhurst's portrait painted in<br />London in 1938. Given his energy, the curious<br />thing is how he was ever persuaded to sit<br />still long enough for a portrait.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>Described on one biography book jacket as a "hardbitten oilman, spectacular lover, absent parent, miserly art collector, philandering husband, social snob, bodybuilding enthusiast, hypochondriac, Hitler sympathizer, master businessman, and the richest man in the world"—not just in Mexico, as Jenkins was—Jean Paul Getty's youth had been spent on Wilshire 13 blocks east of Irving Boulevard. His father, George, the original Getty oil man, had built <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6603450940245899858/3434323060631811077#">647 South Kingsley Drive</a> in 1908 before Wilshire Boulevard was even paved. Perhaps it was having grown up watching the changes on Wilshire from his bedroom window, early on becoming attuned to the huge potential of return on his father's 1908 investment, but, even before his mother died in late 1941 while she was still living on the corner of Kingsley and Wilshire with trade encroaching, Paul Getty began buying on the boulevard. In 1936, between wives number four and five, Getty acquired the Jenkins house, a white elephant of the Depression if there ever was one, as well <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6603450940245899858/3434323060631811077#">637 South Lorraine</a> across the street (a house built at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6603450940245899858/3434323060631811077#">501 South Normandie</a>, moved to Lorraine in the late '20s, and, amazingly, moved again to 600 South Rossmore in 1980). No doubt Getty saw the future commercial potential of a prime lot containing a house that had outlived its limited usefulness in 10 short years. Like Noah Cross, he knew he was buying the future.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /><img border="0" height="474" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S3142jbrQWw/U58XG5WUNDI/AAAAAAAAQwY/zGXkLXbPllY/s640/641SirvingNDesmondbypoolss.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /><br />The third phantom occupant of 641 South Irving preferred the address of<br />of 10086 Sunset Boulevard. Above, exterior detail of the Jenkins house is seen<br />in the 1950 film <i>Sunset Boulevard:</i> Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond orders her<br />servant/first husband Max (</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Erich von Stroheim) </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to bring the Isotta-Fraschini around—<br />the star was ready </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to take her script of <i>Salome</i> to Mr. DeMille at Paramount. Interior<br />shooting on <i>Sunset Boulevard</i> was done at Paramount on sets duplicating the<br />Jenkins house arrangements, but with more room for lights and cameras.<br />Below, the movie's climactic staircase—note the soundstage ceiling.<br /> </span><br /><br /><img border="0" height="515" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KDDSL6GzGrk/U58bGiR5FsI/AAAAAAAAQxQ/BxWXehdp4hE/s576/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206142014%252045934%2520PM.bmp.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;">It might seem that Paul Getty's many wives, once discarded, required the sort of housing to which they had become accustomed, as some have explained Getty's two Wilshire Boulevard property purchases during 1936—Number Four, actress Ann Rork, did receive a beach house in her hard-won settlement that year, but there appears to be no evidence that Getty ceded title of either 637 South Lorraine or 641 South Irving to her or any other wife. Despite covenants dictating that Windsor Square remain residential for 50 years from its 1911 founding, Getty bought and sat on the enormous Jenkins pile at 641 South Irving Boulevard for 16 years. Described in some sources as belonging to a Getty ex-wife at the time of its use in 1950 as the <i>Sunset Boulevard</i> palazzo of silent star Norma Desmond—a crucial-to-the-script swimming pool was excavated for production—the house and pool also appeared five years later, presented even more in shambles, in <i>Rebel Without a Cause</i>. Between its film appearances, Paul, having held off as postwar values rose and, never much interested in being a good neighbor, gave the residents of Windsor Square conniptions when he sought to break the subdivision's covenants and tear down the house in 1952; after five years he succeeded—naturally—adding insult to injury by building on its site the wall-like, block-long, and still-extant Tidewater Oil building for his business interests. In an aggressive, megalomaniacal bid to acquire the entire square block back to Sixth Street, and more, Getty, in the guise of Tidewater (later Getty Oil), wound up with <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6603450940245899858/3434323060631811077#">605 South Irving</a> in 1959. This time thwarted by neighbors, the oil company, naming the house in memory of Paul's oldest son George Franklin Getty II, head of Tidewater/Getty and an apparent suicide in 1973, donated 605 to the city in 1976 for use as the official mayor's residence a few months before Paul himself died. While a nice enough house, one can't help but wish it, rather than the Jenkins house, had been torn down if one of them had to go.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">§ § § § § § § § § §</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>While the Los Angeles profile of William O. Jenkins was never high despite the size and location of his house, it became even quieter after he sold 641 South Irving to the much flashier and far richer J. Paul Getty, and even more so after Mary Jenkins's death in the city on January 15, 1944, at the age of 61—in a mental hospital, according to one source, though it seems there may have been some confusion, as there often is, over the term "sanitarium." The actual precipitating event was more likely a recent tuberculosis-related period of infirmity. (In any case, and not surprisingly, W. O. was absent when she expired, having returned to Mexico.) Jenkins's Mexican image as patrón, however, only rose as he expanded into movie exhibition—what surer way to endear himself to the people than by bringing them entertainment in the form of stardust? His image as an exploitative gringo had begun to be redeemed years before by a calculated charitable turn after the debacle of the kidnapping, a new profile cemented when he established the still-operating Mary Street Jenkins Foundation in memory of his wife in 1954. Elizabeth Jenkins Higgins, his movie manager—at least until W. O. decided he didn't like his daughter making her own decisions about the business—was, sadly, given to dipsomania. She died in a bathroom fall at home in Washington that year; whether or not "Don Guillermo" felt some spiritual inclination to give back after the deaths of his wife and oldest daughter is not known, but it seems that his heart may have finally been in a less solipsistic place with the establishment of the foundation. He left the organization most of his fortune when he died in Puebla at 85 on June 4, 1963, having turned over his business operations to his grandson-cum-son. The Jenkins largess also found its way back to Tennessee, where hospitals were funded as well as building projects at his would-be alma mater in Nashville.</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwhZvSGdq8bEPVHYOpIoJ4RNEk2ICQWrYQjhyiLfuka1UnZSX1LxkWYF6-AjtBE_tNwPaL36PY7q2mCT8cCCO_cUhowSXjAbI31QwpQDA98QFuSBpn8bnNX81Tz0K6yD4xGScXFdKDbQ/s1600/WB-641SIrvingLAT1922.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwhZvSGdq8bEPVHYOpIoJ4RNEk2ICQWrYQjhyiLfuka1UnZSX1LxkWYF6-AjtBE_tNwPaL36PY7q2mCT8cCCO_cUhowSXjAbI31QwpQDA98QFuSBpn8bnNX81Tz0K6yD4xGScXFdKDbQ/s640/WB-641SIrvingLAT1922.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">The Jenkins house occupied the full northside blockfront of Wilshire</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">between Irving and Lorraine boulevards. While its main entrance faced east on</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Irving, its more familiar "Sunset Boulevard" visage was oriented north and west, as</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">seen at top in an adaptation of a 1925 Russwin hardware advertisement by illustrator</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">John Knowles Hare and above in the architect's rendering that appeared in the</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>Los Angeles Times,</i> July 9, 1922. Below, Norma Desmond's collaborator</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Joe Gillis arrives by chance at his new (and last) home in 1950.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uV4EcxSxVaw/U58dvTQ__TI/AAAAAAAAQxg/_ZfxVr3yqNM/s640/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206162014%2520111129%2520AM.bmp.jpg" /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>The philanthropy of Paul Getty, of course, is better known, most especially in the form of Los Angeles museums, which, come to think of it, 641 resembles. As well as making a prudent investment, it might have actually crossed his mind to offer Ann Rork the house as part of her divorce booty, and if she declined, to use it to woo the woman he'd met in 1935 and hoped to make his fifth wife. Some have written that one wife or another ran an acting school in the house at one point, which might have been an idea if not fact derived from the theatrical aspirations of Ann, who had been an actress in silents, and her successor, the ravishing and indomitable Number Five, Louise Dudley Lynch, a nightclub singer from a social background who had a more serious career in mind. (Her nickname was "Teddy," presumably for her lighthearted ways; she became the more opera-ready "Theodora" in some credits, such as that of an opera singer in the 1945 movie The Lost Weekend.) The closest Teddy seems to have gotten to 641 was a look at it with her mother when Paul offered it to Mrs. Lynch as a Los Angeles residence; she said no, thank you, and took a smaller Pasadena place. Whatever prior theatrical life 641 may possibly have had, it paled in comparison to the life of the third major star owner of the house. Enter Billy Wilder and Norma Desmond, assuring that Sunset Boulevard would become one of Wilshire Boulevard's claims to fame in perpetuity. The Jenkins/Getty house was chosen for the movie, which, as star Nancy Olson remembered decades later, was used only for its exteriors. While the answer may lie buried somewhere in Paramount archives, assuming any detailed records were even kept, David Wallace concurs in Lost Hollywood:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">"Although the interiors were fine for the story, they weren't spacious enough for Wilder to move his cameras freely, so they were recreated on the Paramount lot. Assigned the task [of recreating the actual rooms] was...Hans Dreier, who had been brought to the studio...the same year the Jenkins house was built.... [Dreier] was responsible for the 'stunningly pretentious rooms and staircase'.... The tiles used for the floor of the New Year's Eve ball sequence were exact copies of those in the Jenkins home...."</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>The interior studio sets were adapted for at least two other Paramount productions. The Bob Hope/Lucille ball vehicle <i>Fancy Pants</i> was filmed almost simultaneously with <i>Sunset Boulevard,</i> and Hans Dreier himself Colonialized them for 1951's <i>A Place in the Sun</i>. As noted previously, the exterior of the actual house, particularly the pool—drained after Joe Gillis died in it—appeared in <i>Rebel Without a Cause</i> in 1955. From his London office Paul Getty granted <i>Rebel</i>'s producers the use of the Irving house on only four specific days in April 1955 to complete their work; the oil man, now looking to England for acceptance and now definitely only interested in Wilshire Boulevard for its investment return, was reportedly anxious that demolition of the "Phantom House," as 641 came to be called, be accomplished before Windsor Square neighbors could figure out a new tactic to avoid commerce rising six stories at its front gate. It would take nearly another two years before the end of the fabled house of a buccaneer, an oil tycoon, and a silent star was gone from its lot; the Department of Building and Safety issued a demolition permit on December 11, 1956. Although it did little to diminish the attraction of the old subdivision in the long run, six stories of commerce did in short order come to intrude on Windsor Square in the form of Getty's blocklong Tidewater Building, now the Harbor Building, which opened on December 1, 1958.</span><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXsR28uncPnDDS10EVFzVj0Avy3bH7GXY6fjnusjLMQEKs6yGVyHu86mbofog5km7824DvzOkR8lE36CRId6WQSPxtBqAWoDYwnVOEqy7qPv4ZyZjzWfn5ztfTCOVzQ6rxaV559JXrrPh0/s800/641SIrvinginprog2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Undergoing demolition in a photograph dated February 1, 1957, this</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">rare view</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> of </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the front of the Jenkins house was taken </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">from the intersection</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">of Wilshire Boulevard and</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Irving (</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">at right); it </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">reveals the façades </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">on the other</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">side of those to the</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> west, seen similarly in ruins at the same time, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">below.</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The image accompanied an article in the <i>Times</i> on February 24, 1957. </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><img border="0" height="495" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0PWHA2dwjOitxY9gbZd-hREO53JqxISiID1XzfzyMlyrmZcpOBSZPgIGNis24bJkjgtu0P-Cv4At-t8JI1GWz0OfgaGVRj1YxHbcfLgCZUvFb8EEeRaGCgXKbp7gVsD6KIqLpJrqnSdLe/s640/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206162014%2520110324%2520AM.bmp.jpg" width="640" /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="419" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hHhQBgPy6jE/U58hnmoDAhI/AAAAAAAAQyE/kRIKZtL7_zk/s720/641sirvingTIDEWATERcolorbldgcleaned.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While the white Tidewater Oil Building, seen here soon after its 1958 completion with its "Flying A"<br />gasoline logo in place, was designed by eminent architect Claud Beelman, it just somehow<br />misses the mark on grace as compared to its predecessor. The official residence of</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the Los Angeles</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> mayor at</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 605 South Irving is the white house above</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> the</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> left</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">wing of what is now called the Harbor Building. Crenshaw Boulevard</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">enters at bottom right; The Los Altos apartments are at far right.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">§ § § § § § § § § §</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="482" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ojJx_NvdNOI/U58fy9HlhAI/AAAAAAAAQx0/3WXtANmzt8o/s640/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206142014%2520125847%2520PM.bmp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />The interiors of the Jenkins house were recreated on a soundstage,<br />above; the exteriors were shot on location. There were at least three entrances<br />to the house—the address door on Irving, a porte-cochère on the Wilshire side,<br />and the familiar west-facing entrance seen below in <i>Sunset Boulevard</i>.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_7bUd3kTqD8/U583I6XppWI/AAAAAAAAQyk/5lGhCh4QjKw/s640/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206142014%252055021%2520PM.bmp.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;" width="640" /></div><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="465" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PdY0X9rzvSo/U59YamflhdI/AAAAAAAAQy0/2XXfcwGtqLY/s640/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206142014%252010108%2520PM.bmp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /><br />For all its country-villa grandeur, its gardens and tennis courts, the<br />Jenkins house did not have a swimming pool installed until one was dug,<br />without any recirculation or filtration system, for <i>Sunset Boulevard </i>in 1950—and then<br />trashed. (Later scenes with the pool filled were probably shot first.) Above is Joe Gillis's</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">view from above the garage, before he moved into the main house; below, an ambivalent man</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">indulges in a privilege</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> of the house and endures his patroness's well-deserved admiration;</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">in the next image, seen from the main house porch, the pool is lit and ready for his last</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">scene. Afterward it was boarded over until 1955 when it reappeared for a final</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">time in <i>Rebel Without a Cause</i> as a noctural playground for James Dean,</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo. It was gone two years later.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Rw4iio34H4SHIve_GU8lDM7BZBD90pxmDVf2EiBL9iu4xOP0mBiJ6QoJzikefNmZYnVim86WBVo0jSynZ-jFTh8exdVvZX5fjgcGkb9bs3VqmthnkculitaaL_pwMMCGC0f8H35du0o/s1600/WB641SIrvHoldenpool.bmp.jpg"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="948" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Rw4iio34H4SHIve_GU8lDM7BZBD90pxmDVf2EiBL9iu4xOP0mBiJ6QoJzikefNmZYnVim86WBVo0jSynZ-jFTh8exdVvZX5fjgcGkb9bs3VqmthnkculitaaL_pwMMCGC0f8H35du0o/s640/WB641SIrvHoldenpool.bmp.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="477" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SawjBTRynPM/U58YGGNTE0I/AAAAAAAAQwk/idOBtLWSLaA/s640/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206142014%252011636%2520PM.bmp.jpg" width="640" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-apyAPoGSgaU/U59isE_IkHI/AAAAAAAAQz4/NG7vubpx6hs/s640/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206162014%252052818%2520PM.bmp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Before the tails and the vicuña coat, and</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">before we were to see what was underneath the</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">"dreadful" shirt, sport jacket, and "same baggy pants"</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">that were to bore Miss Desmond: After </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">stashing his 1946</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Plymouth</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> in the garage at </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">10086 Sunset Boulevard, the</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">nearly-defeated Joe Gillis—a.k.a. William Holden—</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">surveys the moldering scene of his last hurrah.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T0_s-f4MXiI/U59f5v1hD0I/AAAAAAAAQzs/5Da4aDjJ7rI/s640/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206142014%2520125453%2520PM.bmp.jpg" width="640" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-saBo1-NPxFM/U59fblT1VcI/AAAAAAAAQzc/NacEQVPIdd8/s649/Fullscreen%2520capture%25206162014%2520110244%2520AM.bmp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A matte painting based on the rear, west side of 641 South Irving Boulevard,</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">intended </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">to place the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">house farther north in Los Angeles beneath the Griffith Park</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Observatory, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">opened scenes in <i>R</i></span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">ebel Without a Cause</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> that were actually filmed in the</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">house's garden </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">and down in </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Norma Desmond's abandoned pool, where a man had died</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">five years before. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Another death was associated with the house, or at least with the interior</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">based on it: Below, a timid but dazzled Montgomery Clift, as poor relation George Eastman,</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">is </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">seen entering his uncle's grand house in <i>A Place in the Sun,</i> released in August 1951,</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">a year after <i>Sunset Boulevard</i>. Art director Hans Dreier </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">"de-Mediterraneanized" a</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">set of that film based on the Jenkins house but preserved arches, capitals,</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">and the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">staircase on which Miss Desmond readied herself for a closeup.</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiSdCDxFCuC_bOgQaqU5fpBnH0p71OSTXxCigR3MhvX7XH_uOgIF3I8viKrt-rMbufgYhpUJhknn9Wtk13-ZLstKpZlZ4Zs9j_NELfTO_aWRx71ZznjoJ6PM6J2kZvj6taAEhUyMyfCRw/s1600/WB641SIrvplaceinsunjenkinsdual.jpg"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="1267" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiSdCDxFCuC_bOgQaqU5fpBnH0p71OSTXxCigR3MhvX7XH_uOgIF3I8viKrt-rMbufgYhpUJhknn9Wtk13-ZLstKpZlZ4Zs9j_NELfTO_aWRx71ZznjoJ6PM6J2kZvj6taAEhUyMyfCRw/s640/WB641SIrvplaceinsunjenkinsdual.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Illustrations: <a href="http://www.corbinrusswin.com/en/site/corbin-russwin/">J. Knowles Hare</a>;</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> <a href="http://andrewpaxman.wordpress.com/jenkins/">Andrew Paxman</a>; <a href="http://ancestry.com/">ancestry.com</a>; <a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/">USCDL</a>;</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://latimes.com/">LAT</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">;</span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=544&handle=li">The J. Paul Getty Trust</a>;</span> <a href="http://lapl.org/">LAPL</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">; </span><a href="http://paramount.com/">Paramount Pictures</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">;</span> <a href="http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/">Huntington Digital Library</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-90100-381399091/the-architectural-digest-a-pictorial-digest-of-the-best-california?trp=&trn=organic_google&trl=#fullscreen"><i>The Architectural Digest</i> Vol. 6 1926<br /></a></span></span><br /></div></div></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Department of Buildings issued a construction permit for 1815 Westmoreland Boulevard on April 27, 1909; the document was issued in the name of Ira M. Hollingsworth, an operative of the real estate developer Mines & Farish. Hollingsworth acted as the contractor and was living at the time at a previous project at 1715 Westmoreland Boulevard; his project prior to that was 1711, which he had sold in March</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An image of 1815 Westmoreland Boulevard appeared in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> on September 5, 1909,<br />along with another of the houses Ira Hollingsworth had recently completed and was then living in<br />at 1715 Westmoreland. The houses's garage at left remains standing along with its parent.</span></td></tr>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A NOTE ON THE WESTMORELANDS OF LOS ANGELES:</b> Simultaneously with the development of Westmoreland Boulevard and the Westmoreland Heights Tract in 1902, the real estate investment group comprised of Wesley Clark, Elden P. Bryan, and Henry Huntington was organizing its unrelated Westmoreland and Westmoreland Place tracts less than 20 blocks to the northeast, the inauguration of both a Westmoreland Boulevard and a Westmoreland Avenue causing confusion for Angelenos ever since. Clark, Bryan, and Huntington were inspired by St. Louis's Westmoreland Place to the point of duplicating its elaborate gatehouses for its own high-end Place, the history of which is <a href="https://westmorelandplacelosangeles.blogspot.com/">here</a>. Their gateless and more successful Westmoreland Tract was marketed to the middle-class buyer, as was the competing Westmoreland Heights, which, however, was marked at its entrances by stone pillars, one of which remains today at the southeast corner of Westmoreland and Venice boulevards. (This column matches pairs still in place on the south side of Washington Boulevard at Harvard and Hobart boulevards, sections of which were in the West Adams Heights Tract that was developed and marketed along with Westmoreland Heights)</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first owner of 1815 Westmoreland Boulevard was Weymouth Crowell, a builder who had recently completed work on the Walter P. Story Building at Sixth and Broadway would later be the contractor on several important local projects including the Blackstone Building, also on Broadway, the Ambassador Hotel, the main Los Angeles Public Library, and the Hotel Cecil. Crowell was in possession of 1815 by the latter half of 1910</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In June 1913, Weymouth Crowell began building the 51-unit Weymouth Apartments at 914 South Alvarado Street; he is listed on its building permit as living in a house next door at 902 South Alvarado. His sale of 1815 Westmoreland appears to have occurred during 1913</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On November 6, 1921, 34-year-old Carrie Bernice McKee married attorney James Mathias Gammon at 1815 Westmoreland Boulevard</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lee Paxton Jordan, the secretary-treasurer of a Fort Worth Ford dealer, had moved to Los Angeles by early 1923, assuming a similar position at Lamberth Ford on Whittier Boulevard. He and his family rented 4475 Victoria Park Drive, from which they would move to 1815 Westmoreland Boulevard. Jordan would remain at 1815 for the next 30 years; the only building permit he was issued regarding the house was one for the repair of termite damage</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On January 26, 1902, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> ran an illustration accompanied by an item describing<br />the house "that is to be erected for E. R. Feurborn on lots located on the northeast corner of<br /> Carondelet and Seventh streets. It will be a ten-room two story frame building with<br />basement and attic. The foundation will be of granite. The exterior finish of the<br />first story will be in sawed clap-boards; that of the second story will be<br />shingles. On the first floor will be found a spacious hallway, parlor,<br />sitting-room, dining-room, kitchen and servants' bath-room.<br />The second story will contain four bed chambers and<br />a bath-room.The house will be heated from a<br />furnace in the basement. It will be [lit]<br />by both gas and electricity.... The<br />house will cost between<br />$5000 and $7000."<br /> </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"></td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Edward Feuerborn left 686 in 1908 to live at the Hotel Ingraham; occupying the house during that year was Frederick W. Marshall, president of a firm that specialized in "patented fixtures for apartment houses"—i.e., Murphy beds, among other furniture</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Murrays' elder daughter, Mabel, married banker George A. J. Howard at the Cathedral of St. Vibiana on August 17, 1910, a few weeks before her 25th birthday. While the newlyweds lived at first on Hobart Boulevard, they soon moved in with her parents at 686 South Carondelet and would remain there until moving to Ocean Park by 1920. Frank, the Murrays' 21-year-old elder son, married Rose Cunningham two months before the Howards' wedding; a few years after a daughter was born in 1920, the Frank Murrays divorced. He moved back in with his parents at 686 and would remain single and in the house into the 1940s</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and its garage were part of the <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/">Gaylord Wilshire</a>'s 1895 tract, the platting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of which included the first blocks of his famous eponymous boulevard. Even the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">most luxurious Los Angeles subdivisions of single-family houses were</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> relatively short-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bent on devouring all lands toward the Pacific. The Feurborns and, for a time, the Murrays,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had as close neighbors the lordly <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/3189-wilshire-boulevard.html">Hancocks</a>, who built 683 South Carondelet across the street</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in 1901, as seen above at far left. (It was moved to Magnolia and Tenth avenues in 1925.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Murrays would later build a filling station on their property—it would appear by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">early 1932 in the same view—and not long after a larger commercial structure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">where the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">driveway appears above. Sanborn maps from 1906 and 1950</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to John Bengtson, "the great detective of silent film locations" per <i>The New York Times</i> and exacting author of <i><a href="https://silentlocations.com/author/johnbengtson/">Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton</a>,</i> Joe Schenck, the actor's brother-in-law and the man who had financed Keaton's production company, loaned the actor the cash to buy 637. Keaton and Talmadge owned 637 for just 10 months; after managing to make a considerable profit by selling it for $85,000, they moved on to 543 South Muirfield Road in Hancock Park—yet another stop before Buster built a famous Beverly Hills house, completed in 1926, in a fruitless effort to please his famously avaricious wife</span></li>
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JAMES PARK</a></div><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://westmorelandplacelosangeles.blogspot.com/">WESTMORELAND PLACE</a></span></div></div><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORIC LOS ANGELES, CLICK <a href="http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/">HERE</a></span></div></div></div><p><br /></p></div><p></p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Built in 1899 on Lot 18 of the Dana Tract by furnace and stove manufacturer and dealer Frank Edward Browne; relocated to 631 West 28th Street in 1924</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Architect: John C. Austin. Austin's Hiram Higgins house, built at <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/2619-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html" style="text-align: center;">2619 Wilshire Boulevard</a> in 1902 and seen here below, shares several design features with our subject house including arched windows of various sizes and gable treatments. The Higgins house was itself relocated; in 1923 it found its way to <a href="https://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/">Windsor Square</a>, where it famously still stands at <a href="https://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/2016/02/for-introduction-to-windsor-square_20.html">637 South Lucerne Boulevard</a> </span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Connecticut-born Frank Browne developed the popular Browne Furnace, often noted in Southern California real estate listings of the day as a premium feature of houses; he manufactured and sold this and other household appliances. Browne and his wife Lizzie were moving from a cottage at 740 South Broadway, the unimproved lot it occupied having been purchased by Browne in 1882 for $600. Retaining what became a prime downtown property until 1903, Browne sold 740 South Broadway for $52,500 in December of that year</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lizzie J. Browne died at 3219 South Figueroa on August 19, 1909, age 55. Her husband's sister and brother-in-law, Juliette and Joseph Wall, moved into 3219 afterward</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Frank E. Browne married Bertha Nelson of Ocean Park in Santa Ana on February 7, 1912; while referred to as a "Miss" in the <i>Herald</i>'s announcement two days later, the bride, 45, appears to have been married twice before. (The Walls left 3219 afterward and after purchasing a newly-built bungalow at 3667 Arlington Avenue) </span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Frank E. Browne died at 3219 South Figueroa on November 4, 1912. He was 63. His <i>Times</i> obituary the next day reported that he had been ill with "neuralgia of the heart" and pneumonia and referred to him as an inventor, property investor, and gun enthusiast </span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bertha Browne remained at 3219, living with her widowed mother Elizabeth Zimmerman, who died on August 26, 1920. Mrs. Browne left the house within two years of her mother's death and began to plan for the redevelopment of Lot 18 of the Dana Tract</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">By 1924, 3219 South Figueroa—the house itself—had been sold to the Xi Psi Phi Holding Corporation, which was issued a relocation permit in the name of dentists Clayton M. McCauley and Alton D. McLeod by the Department of Buildings on June 16, 1924. The house was trucked two blocks north by the <a href="https://fremontplace.blogspot.com/2014/11/70-fremont-place-please-also-see-our.html">Kress House Moving Company</a> and settled on a parcel comprised of the east 30 feet of Lot 38 and the west 50 feet of Lot 39 of Del Valle's Subdivision of the Wheeler Tract. Drs. McCauley and McLeod were purchasing and relocating 3219 to become the Alpha Theta chapter house of Xi Psi Phi, a U.S.C.</span> <span style="font-family: verdana;">dental fraternity</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: center;"><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On June 19, 1924, Bertha Browne was issued a permit by the Department of Buildings to replace her 25-year-old house with a full-lot-width $72,000 store and garage building. A new automobile row was developing along Figueroa Street; the future site of Felix Chevrolet was just across the street from Mrs. Browne's property. Her new structure would last until 2008 and be replaced with the University Gateway apartments as U.S.C. continued its century-long expansion of its campus. (The 1889 John M. C. Marble house next door to 3219 served as the U.S.C. School of Music from 1915 until it moved to </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2011/01/2601-south-grand-avenue-please-also-see.html">2601 South Grand Avenue</a> in 1924)</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once settled on its new foundation at 631 West 28th Street, the men of Xi Psi Phi moved into the former Browne residence, with an open house marking the completion of the house's transfer and renovation on November 21, 1924. The brothers remained until 1939, eventually moving on to <a href="https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2011/09/880-west-adams-boulevard-please-also.html">880 West Adams Boulevard</a> before FIJI settled in there. The Tau Epsilon Phis were to occupy 631 West 28th next, staying through 1943. The house was converted into a fourplex in the summer of 1944, its ownership unclear, and remained in this configuration until its purchase in 1948 by the Scorpion Benefit Corporation, which was issued a permit by what was now called the Department of Building and Safety on July 8 authorizing interior alterations and additional bathroom fixtures. Tau Kappa Epsilon's Beta Sigma chapter had been formed out of U.S.C.'s Scorpion Club; an item in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> on October 27, 1948, reported that a ceremony marking Beta Sigma's installation on campus was to take place four days later at the University Club, with Rufus von KleinSmid, school chancellor and strong supporter of the Greek system (and now ignominious champion of eugenics), slated to speak. The Tekes moved into 631 West 28th and remain in residence to this day</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Moving with the times over the decades, the Tekes have regularly modernized its 1899 house, though the brothers wisely held off major renovations for several years after moving in. As the <i>Times</i> of February 5, 1950, described it, the path of the developing Harbor Freeway (today, "the 110") had yet to be settled, with one 300-foot-wide proposal threatening to plow through Fraternity Row, sparing the Teke house but placing it on the east side of the highway. (Political power in the form of Von KleinSmid and the redoubtable Mrs. Doheny of Chester Place might have been the prevailing forces that settled the matter with today's east-curving 110 configuration.) The Tekes may have taken some ribbing from fellow Greeks along 28th Street for their delay in upgrading their quarters, even if, according to photographic evidence, its façade was being kept quite tidy: Per the writer of the text of Teke's page in the 1952 <i>El Rodeo</i> yearbook, "Yes, they plan to remodel their ancient abode in the near future." The freeway matter settled, the <i>Times</i> reported on July 18, 1954, that Teke had completed a major transformation of the house, which included a two-story, $20,000 addition accommodating 10 more men and an expanded dining room capable of holding 70. "A new attractive front of brick is a feature of the project being done by Walter Krounse, condtractor, and Dave Oakley, who drew the plans. The Scorpion Club, Inc., building association of the fraternity, is sponsoring the new addition." Images of 631 West 28th appearing in <i>El Rodeo</i> over the years chart its upgrades. With the form of what was once 3219 South Figueroa Street still just discernible, the bones, at least, of the Browne house live on 121 years after first being assembled on Figueroa Street</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 2006, the Beta Sigma chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon purchased 625 West 28th Street next door, which had been built by Charles W. Blaisdell at 2622 South Figueroa in 1896 and moved to U.S.C.'s developing Fraternity Row in 1923. (Charles W. Blaisdell was the father of Richard Blaisdell, who had built <a href="https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2011/09/880-west-adams-boulevard-please-also.html">880 West Adams</a> in 1895, a house mentioned here previously as the home of Xi Psi Phi after it left 631 West 28th Street.) The Tekes demolished 625 after being issued a permit by the Department of Building and Safety on July 26, 2006, planning a new house on the site as an annex to its original building at 631. This building opened in early 2009 and became known as Teke East; a compound having been created for the brothers, unique along the Row, 631 became Teke West. Teke West, the 1899 Browne house, received its most recent renovation in 2014</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi49ydAvBacRtFBGv1cRN15BswWwti8UgbQSEblwVH9cYpUfDUrKZMxFV9fioGwxozFIqE4Frem0vY0Rd2We8Q3ELzWSGDXyZrV2nTVP8MK5Yc31Bi0K1ptV49Vd264QGG0zh6KjogkunK8/s844/3219fig-at631-27elrodeo.bmp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="844" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi49ydAvBacRtFBGv1cRN15BswWwti8UgbQSEblwVH9cYpUfDUrKZMxFV9fioGwxozFIqE4Frem0vY0Rd2We8Q3ELzWSGDXyZrV2nTVP8MK5Yc31Bi0K1ptV49Vd264QGG0zh6KjogkunK8/w640-h404/3219fig-at631-27elrodeo.bmp.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After 25 years at 3219 South Figueroa Street, the Browne house is seen here settled on its<br />new foundation at 631 West 28th Street in the 1927 U.S.C. yearbook, <i>El Rodeo</i>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-JbphXWG70pf-aXdtzY6bWYw70Y88aFbO1dXSxuhfaSBzw8p06w28Mx7Zp7uRGVVxe6B9QcBSn0BeJ7sAM5fa8AseLS4k6Aq4PZvmtITlTu9aAEctYM7IQwf_St2lhW8mNiCod_FRQl7/s800/3219fig-at631-53elrodeo.bmp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="800" height="592" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-JbphXWG70pf-aXdtzY6bWYw70Y88aFbO1dXSxuhfaSBzw8p06w28Mx7Zp7uRGVVxe6B9QcBSn0BeJ7sAM5fa8AseLS4k6Aq4PZvmtITlTu9aAEctYM7IQwf_St2lhW8mNiCod_FRQl7/w640-h592/3219fig-at631-53elrodeo.bmp.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now home to the Tekes at 631 West 28th Street, the Browne house is pictured in the 1953 <i>El Rodeo,</i> offering evidence of a renovation since 1924 of the third floor that involved removing key features.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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Below is the Teke<br />house today. The fraternity has expanded to become something of a campus-within-<br />a-campus; its 1899 house at left has evolved into a modern facility now known<br />as Teke West, which was joined by the brothers' Teke East, at right, in 2009.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13iGISk-ozJhgYXeShyphenhyphenRNuwwF8GFyEqJoY-Esz1HucKuewV0a0eZ8s1cOvWDQDv8YuTINjJsI9-rygYxJmwLCs3oyJWBLobd2e2kILmwO-qUeUekl-JKpJ_Blx5VNses7bfnDZMx4KNVI/s1258/3219fig-at631TODAY.bmp.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="1258" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13iGISk-ozJhgYXeShyphenhyphenRNuwwF8GFyEqJoY-Esz1HucKuewV0a0eZ8s1cOvWDQDv8YuTINjJsI9-rygYxJmwLCs3oyJWBLobd2e2kILmwO-qUeUekl-JKpJ_Blx5VNses7bfnDZMx4KNVI/w640-h210/3219fig-at631TODAY.bmp.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCaq2pGfK7tEuS0O7Mn8pygR7S4pFJMZOV3Y-IYVrtaAT4dMwV5QmiI3esWPtDv6IILTDgSf0tQwMS_cXC3HP1FpK1Mo9CxP7BYTaJSZBaXV8Z_BNBEyQRb9A8jDCiqjVp3DbageGC1X0/s1052/3219SFig-HigginshousepicUSCBW.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1052" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCaq2pGfK7tEuS0O7Mn8pygR7S4pFJMZOV3Y-IYVrtaAT4dMwV5QmiI3esWPtDv6IILTDgSf0tQwMS_cXC3HP1FpK1Mo9CxP7BYTaJSZBaXV8Z_BNBEyQRb9A8jDCiqjVp3DbageGC1X0/w640-h432/3219SFig-HigginshousepicUSCBW.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">John C. Austin also designed <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/2619-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2619 Wilshire Boulevard</a>, completed in 1902. Its massing is similar to<br /> 3219 South Figueroa and the houses shares several design features including </span>gable treatments<span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">and </span>arched windows <span style="font-family: verdana;">of various sizes</span>. In 1923 the Wilshire Boulevard house was moved to<br /><a href="https://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/2016/02/for-introduction-to-windsor-square_20.html" style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">637 South Lucerne Boulevard</a><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">in </span><a href="https://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">Windsor Square</a>, where it remains standing today.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Illustrations: Private Collection; <a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/">USCDL</a></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8376715865393293969.post-33149263786818167982015-02-04T08:08:00.000-05:002018-10-22T09:55:39.869-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Retiring from business in upstate New York after 1905, George Lemuel Lovejoy arrived in California with his family and enough capital to begin investing in Los Angeles real estate. It is unclear as to whether he built what became 1302 North Hobart himself, or bought a house that had recently been completed on Crown Avenue in sparsely settled easterly Hollywood, the roadway's north-south path existing primarily on tract maps. Lovejoy was listed at "436 S Crown Av" in the 1911 Los Angeles city directory, presumably a continuation of his listing in pre-annexation Hollywood directories, although a 1907 fire-insurance map indicates that Crown Avenue south toward its intersection with Benefit Avenue (renamed Fountain after annexation at the same time that Prospect Avenue became Hollywood Boulevard) was designated "Oak Avenue"—on which, at #436, Lovejoy is listed in the 1912 Los Angeles city directory. Many Hollywood streets and addresses were confusingly altered in the decade after its incorporation in 1903 as tracts formed and reformed, with most of its roadways and all of its numbers finally converting fully to Los Angeles's established practices by 1913. After having lived at "436 S Crown Av" and then "436 Oak Av," both at the northeast corner of Benefit Avenue, Lovejoy had to now adjust himself (and his stationery) to having his house designated as 1302 North Hobart Boulevard, at the northeast corner of Fountain Avenue. As a real-estate investor, he can only have enjoyed the remunerative consolidation of bucolic and largely pre-film Hollywood with burgeoning Los Angeles and the security of the city's new aqueduct that would bring abundant water down from the Owens Valley once it opened in November 1913</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in a neighborhood. A </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">drugstore anchored the corner; a Safeway market occupied the next</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>mong the early-20th-century Los Angeles plutocracy were two unrelated but easily confused players named William Garland. The younger of these, known as William May Garland, was a Maine-born real estate developer well-known for his distinctive red-and-white billboards and print advertisements that appeared across the city from the 1890s into the 1920s; he had a dinner-plate-sized hand in the early development of the West Adams district as it spread westward from Figueroa Street, including that of the <a href="http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspot.com/">St. James Park</a> tract, where he built his own residence at <a href="http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2016/10/815-west-adams-boulevard-please-also.html">815 West Adams Street</a> in 1891, soon after his arrival in the city from the east. Also arriving to reside in Los Angeles around the same time, at least part-time, via Canada and Arizona, was Irish-born William Garland (who either did not have or did use a middle name), who, once having decided to retire from the presidency of the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern Railway, would build our subject house in 1898.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As Los Angeles prepared for the exponential and far-reaching development it would experience in the new century, there was, as would be the case for decades to come, no particular neighborhood to which the affluent would be attracted. While West Adams seemed to offer the most prestige, there was also the competitive Westlake District, expanding to the other side of the eponymous greensward by means of <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/">Gaylord Wilshire's boulevard</a>, a big new carrot for rich homeseekers. William Garland, reassessing the city's development once it came time to build, thought better of his original choice, Bunker Hill, convenient by Angels Flight to the business district but quickly losing favor as a bon ton district.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Los Angeles Times</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> of October 1, 1897, described the progress of Garland's new house this way:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"William Garland, who is president of an Arizona railroad company, recently prepared to build a residence on [a] lot at [the] corner of Grand avenue and Fourth, but when he came to get out his plans he found that the lot was not big enough. Since then, he has purchased three lots at the corner of Westlake avenue and Eighth street, in the Bonnie Brae tract.... On this land he will build a fine residence, which it is said will cost over $20,000."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Garland had hired the highly regarded architects Octavius Morgan and John A. Walls to design his house, perhaps commissioning the firm, established in 1890, early on in its existence, before the rarefied air began to leak precipitously out of Bunker Hill's image of social eminence; by 1897, the alternate Bonnie Brae site for the house would not have just been chosen because of a too-small lot on Grand Street. Once construction was underway on Westlake Avenue, the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Times </i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">gave a full description on April 8, 1898:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The residence, as well as the commodious barn adjoining, is substantially built and both are carried out in the charming style of the French chateaux of the period of Louis XIV, which style is suited for the requi[r]ements of fine modern residences.... The construction of the inclosing walls is of brick and Arizona sandstone, the soft warm color of the latter harmonizing with the buff of the pressed brick with which the exterior of the building is generally faced. The roofs are covered with roll tile, burnt a deep red shade, which, with [the] bronze green of the copper forming the cresting and finials, completes a most pleasing scheme of color.... The principal entrance is by brownstone steps, through an arcaded veranda with mosaic floor of tile.... The barn is carried out in all particulars on the general scale of the residence, and will amply provide convenience for its blue-blooded equine inhabitants.... The materials are generally of home production, and show that the best can be obtained in our own immediate vicinity."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once installed in their new house, Garland and his wife Ida and their sons Grover and William Junior were attended to by six live-in servants. Once finished with railroading, Garland took up the second career of many a Los Angeles man done with his first. Investing his fortune in real estate—and no doubt causing further confusion with William May Garland—he built the Garland Building, still at 740 South Broadway, in 1913. Apparently happy with his house, Garland hired Morgan, Walls & Morgan to design it. The Garland Building houses the Globe Theatre, originally known as the Morosco; another project of Garland's (but one not by the Morgan firm) was the 1920 Pantages Building at Seventh and Broadway, housing the Pantages Theatre (now the </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Downtown Jewelry Exchange/Warner Bros. Theatre).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even as the Westlake neighborhood began to decline—with ever-expanding choices of new developments, even expensive districts in Los Angeles were subject to becoming déclassé before their infrastructure had worn out—the Garlands remained, William expiring in the house on November 24, 1928. His death and Ida's departure soon after—she would live until 1953—left their 30-year-old house in the by-now bedraggled Westlake neighborhood to become a café. The house and its outbuildings, which included a garage added at the rear of the lot in 1910, survived various commercial uses until soon after February 8, 1956, when demolition permits were issued by the Department of Building and Safety.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://berkeleysquarelosangeles.com/">BERKELEY SQUARE</a></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span> <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/">WILSHIRE BOULEVARD</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ST. JAMES PARK</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> <a href="http://fremontplace.blogspot.com/">FREMONT PLACE</a></span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/">WINDSOR SQUARE</a> <a href="http://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/">ADAMS BOULEVARD</a> <a href="http://westmorelandplacelosangeles.blogspot.com/">WESTMORELAND PLACE</a> </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he residential years of Wilshire Boulevard lasted little more than three decades after its 1895 inception; its turn to commerce was sparked in 1923 by A. W. Ross's fight with the city to have his property, then in the hinterlands beyond La Brea Avenue, zoned for business. Once what became the Miracle Mile got the "GO" semaphore, intelligent boulevard homeowners knew that the jig was up. While some built quite late, practically even as Ross was formulating his plans, all homeowners would be well compensated for the trouble of uprooting by wildly increased property values as commerce began to intrude, first in the old houses themselves, then in new structures after wholesale demolitions. Quite a few householders picked up their beloved dwellings and moved them to new suburbs midway between the Miracle Mile and the original Wilshire district down by Westlake/MacArthur Park, such as Windsor Square and Fremont Place. Once the 241-foot beacon of commerce known as Bullock’s-Wilshire opened between Wilshire Place and Westmoreland on September 26, 1929, a new wave of architecture began to sweep westward on the road, closer to the sidewalk than setback requirements had permitted houses but of architecture not insensitive in its proportions to what had been there. The new commercial buildings were generally of genteel, lowrise design meant to perpetuate the prestige now inherent in the name Wilshire. Prime examples of the new boulevard are an adjacent pair of more or less French designs, manor house and <i>mairie,</i> built within a year of each other just east of the new Bullock’s-Wilshire.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">It housed the famous Stendahl Galleries and is seen in the circa-1934 east-</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While sometimes conflated as one—including by the Los Angeles Conservancy—3000 and 3006 Wilshire Boulevard are in fact separate buildings. It seems unlikely that real estate coverage in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> of the day, while certainly not factually foolproof in any daily newspaper then or now, would be wholly inaccurate; unlikely too would be that official Los Angeles city and county records, while perhaps not themselves accurate down to the last item as to dates and some other details, have mistaken the two structures for one. At any rate, as the houses of the eastern boulevard came down or were moved (and in at least two cases simply hidden, to this day, by incorporation into commercial designs, as next door at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/06/2976-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2976</a>), the new buildings went up. Giles Kellogg, secretary of Union Oil and a saavy real estate investor sensitive to the drumbeat of Los Angeles's developmental trends, had built his own home at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/w-hile-surprising-number-of-houses-that.html">3002</a> in 1906. Before he died in 1916, he may well have left instructions in his will for his heirs to hang onto their Wilshire frontage even if they weren't going to live there. There was indeed the Kellogg Holding Company, which, after the Kellogg house was rented by the family to various commercial enterprises during the '20s, including a ladies' tea parlor raided in 1926 as a daytime speakeasy, demolished the house and commissioned architect A. Godfrey Bailey to design an impressive replacement dedicated to business. Its façade, described by the <i>Times</i> as inspired by architecture found "in the northern part of France," would extend 150 feet along the Kellogg company's double lot; the Department of Building and Safety issued a construction permit for it on May 14, 1930. Attracting a number of tenants to its 22,000 square feet but most closely identified with its major tenant, the decorators and furniture dealer Cannell & Chaffin that would stay for 57 years, it opened in the fall of 1930. In June 1941 t</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">he <i>Times</i> reported that</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">a later owner, real estate man Leslie H. Danis, swapped it to actor Richard Barthelmess for his house (still) at the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Hillcrest Road in Beverly Hills, both buildings apparently then worth $280,000.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">was announced similarly on May 3, 1931; it was designed by Morgan, Walls & Clements,<br />who, along with Bailey and the firm of Walker & Eisen, practiced similar grand<br />interpretations of French architecture (as well as other international idioms)<br />along commercializing Wilshire even during the deepening Depression.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Often referred to as the Cannell & Chaffin Building, A. Godfrey Bailey's French pile on the site of the Kellogg house still stands—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">if insensitively altered—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">at 3000 Wilshire Boulevard, as does the one that took the place of the next-door Goddard-Bliss house a year later. The J. Ross Clark estate bought </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/3006-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">3006</a> Wilshire from </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">meatpacker Reuben Bliss after his contentious mid-'20s divorce and proceed to commission the esteemed firm of Morgan, Walls & Clements to design another Frenchish building as a replacement. Citing a width of 75 feet along the boulevard, the Department of Building and Safety issued a permit to begin construction on April 16, 1931. Completed that fall, the building became the new home of the famous Stendahl Galleries, which moved east from the Ambassador Hotel, and it too remains a charming structure that is still managing to resist the highrise, high-density fever of 21st-Los Angeles. Before long, in progress slowed but not stopped by the Depression, the Wilshire Boulevard of setback upper-middle-class houses (interspersed with a quite a few palaces) gave way to the pretty middle-vintage thoroughfare of great if intermittent charm that preceded the next wave of glassy highrise construction. Much of the likes of 3000 and 3006 Wilshire fortunately remains, though with Los Angeles no longer content to be horizontal and suburban but rather pursuing an urban profile more along the lines of Hong Kong or Shanghai, how long can any of these delicate things last barring the next financial quake?</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The curious building once at the southwest corner of Wilshire and Shatto Place, the latter cut through south of the boulevard only at the time of the Busch family's development of its long-held Vermont Avenue corner in 1923, is something of an enigma. While it appears to be two buildings, it is in fact one in two volumes finished uniformly at street level; no information as to its designer has surface as yet, but among its varied tenants was Charles D. Wagner, an architect and builder with offices at 3152 Wilshire, one of several addresses associated with the structure. One source suggests that it was one of many real estate ventures engineered by Jackie Coogan's father with the boy's picture millions, but that seems to have actually been a building designed by Albert C. Martin adjacent to the Busch Building's Vermont Avenue wing rather than to its eastern, Wilshire end; curious too is that it appears that none other than Henry Gaylord Wilshire himself may have taken offices in the building at 3144—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">possibly beforehand in a temporary structure on the lot—a</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">pparently having capitulated to forces that pushed for changes to his original residential template and hoping to profit from the new, commercial boulevard. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In advertising his business at 3144 in the <i>Times</i> as early as March 1924, there is the vague suggestion that Wilshire himself may have built the new building; but exactly when it may have been completed is unclear, there being scant evidence of anyone's occupancy before the spring of 1925. Eventually, t</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">here were the usual emporiums catering to matrons of means, which may have suffered a blow when the Ebell Club changed its plans to build just across Shatto Place and settled farther west at Wilshire and Lucerne; reflecting a similar westward drift but of the really big, beyond-Buick money in an interregnum between downtown and Beverly Hills showrooms, there was even a Rolls-Royce dealer at the Shatto corner. The recently founded Seaboard National Bank was the building's most physically prominent tenant, opening what it referred to as its "up-town" office at 3152 in January 1926. Migrating across the street to 3143 in 1932, the bank took along its huge rooftop sign </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">seen in the photograph of the Busch building above</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">After the Fisher house at </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/3043-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3043</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> served commerce for several years, it came down in late 1930 to make way for a beautifully proportioned French design announced in the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Times</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> on October 5, 1930. Architects Walker & Eisen, whose altogether different </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/3143-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3143</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> was being planned at the same time, redesigned the the building in 1939 to accommodate the new home of downtown jeweler B. D. Howes. Now gone, it was perhaps one of the prettiest buildings ever built on the boulevard and complementary to the Kellogg and Clark buildings just east across the street. Above: The Town House looms; both it and Bullock's-Wilshire, out of camera just to the right, had opened in September 1929. Viewed toward the west below, Wilshire Boulevard presents a lovely busy streetscape; a corner of the Town House is at right; Bullock's is out of view across from 3043. The Bank of America had by this time absorbed Seaboard National, hence the change of rooftop sign at </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/3143-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3143</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">; the Gaylord apartments in the distance is at the northwest corner of Kenmore Avenue.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Some pre-highrise Wilshire Boulevard commercial buildings have slipped away almost unnoticed, including designs by major names such as Morgan, Walls & Clements. C</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">ontrasting dramatically with that firm's adjacent</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Wilshire Central Building rendered in the C</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">hurrigueresque style eight years before, their</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 1936 Streamline block of stores at the northwest corner of Serrano Avenue i</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">s just such a case in point. Only partial photographs of it seem to exist, and no tenant appears to have lasted very long in the building; it was replaced </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">in the mid-'50s by financier Howard Ahmanson's building for an office of the National American Insurance Company, an outgrowth of an Omaha firm founded by his father in 1919. Ahmanson was a champion of Millard Sheets, the Los Angeles artist of multiple talents; appointed director of the Otis Art Institute in 1953, Sheets then became a significant contributor to Southland architecture with 3701 Wilshire. Reopened in September 1963 as the Ahmanson Bank and Trust Company's first branch office, it was demolished for Edward Durell Stone's massive Ahmanson Center (later renamed the Wilshire Colonnade), completed in 1971.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">On January 17, 1926, the <i>Times</i> announced that work was underway on Morgan, Walls & Clements's Wilshire Arts Building, commissioned by Dr. John B. McCoy. Opening that spring at the northeast corner of Wilshire and Manhattan Place, it held the usual mix of shops and professional suites and soon included soundproof studios for the Zoellner Conservatory of Music and the offices of a man predisposed to working in a building of good design. Another great name in Los Angeles architecture, Paul R. Williams—perhaps the king himself—remained at the Wilshire Arts until moving in the mid-'40s to Morgan, Walls's similarly </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Churrigueresque</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> McKinley Building.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">On April 22, 1923, the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Times</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> reported that Abram Post and California state senator Louis H. Roseberry had together just purchased both northerly corners of Wilshire Boulevard and Berendo Street. The commercial structures that went up a few years later—the Roseberry Building on the northeast corner and the Post Building that replaced </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/w-hile-surprising-number-of-houses-that.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3301</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> on the northwest—are both attributed to architects Meyer & Holler; considering their Egyptian (1922) and Chinese (to open in 1927) theaters, the firm's particularly flamboyant design for the new 3301 would perhaps have been no surprise. Later known as the M. L. Baird Building, the Mediterranean Revival Post Building opened in the fall of 1925; its roster of tenants over the years would include a branch of the Dorothy Gray cosmetics firm and the nationally known shop of needlepoint guru Lucie Newman. It was gone by 1970. On the lot across Berendo, apparently never before built upon, the Roseberry Building was of massing similar to its companion but of the popular Churrigueresque-detailed Spanish Revival style. Unlike its companion, razed in 1969 and replaced by the regrettable but inevitable 12-story Wilshire Plaza, the Roseberry remains as a charming reminder of the boulevard's early, more human-scaled commercial years.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">When attorney Henry W. O'Melveny and his wife Nette decided that Wilshire Boulevard traffic and the gong going off at the gas station opened caddy-corner in January 1927 had all become too much, not to mention living in the afternoon shadow of the 10-story Talmadge apartment house next door, they moved their lovely house at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/06/3250-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">3250</a> Wilshire to Windsor Square, where it stands today. As did quite a few boulevard homeowners, the O'Melveneys redeveloped their own property rather than sell it. On the lot Henry had a jewelbox of a store building constructed to the specifications of high-end ladies'-wear retailer Switzer's as its first Los Angeles branch; it opened in August 1931. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In the carriage-trade tradition of Bullock's-Wilshire down the boulevard and of the I. Magnin store to come just across New Hampshire Street on the site of the Louis Cole house at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/3240-wilshire-boulevard.html">3240</a> (below), Switzer's was designed with an elaborate rear motor court and an interior of exquisite fit and finish. As described by the <i>Times</i> in 1931, its details make the building's loss all the more regrettable. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The store proves recalcitrant in terms of a full image; below, apparently having expanded its merchandise to include home furnishings, it appears around the time of the February 11, 1939, opening of the new five-story I. Magnin. At bottom is Switzer's under construction as seen from just north on New Hampshire Street; a corner of the 1929 Chesterfield Furniture Company is at right.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Two small Wilshire Boulevard commercial buildings, typically catering to matrons of means with beauty parlors, dress shops, millinery, and even actual catering services, rose on adjacent lots at opposite ends of the '30s; joining 3908, which followed the French vogue popular by 1930, the Mount Vernonesque 3916 was announced in the <i>Times</i> on December 17, 1939. No phase of development on Wilshire boulevard endures; as central Los Angeles lost its customers of means, what wasn't demolished was neglected or architecturally trashed. Below, in order, a 1978 view of 3908 suffering neglect while 3916 maintains its dignity; indifferently treated, more billboards than buildings, August 2014; and</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> a shot west in 1939 with 3908 in place just before 3916 joined it.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Illustrations: <a href="http://lapl.org/">LAPL</a>; <a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/">USCDL</a>; <a href="http://latimes.com/">LAT</a>; <a href="http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/">UCLA Digital Collections</a>;</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">J</span>ohn Parkinson is one of those men of whom it </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">could </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">accurately be said, "He built Los Angeles." His many distinguished and even iconic buildings, many still standing, helped to elevate the stature of the city beyond its history as a 19th-century Western town in the shadow of San Francisco. Among his works are the Homer Laughlin Building on Broadway (a.k.a. the Grand Central Market, 1896) and the Braly Block (a.k.a. the Continental Building, 1902) and the Alexandria Hotel (1906) on Spring Street. With his early partner Edwin Bergstrom he designed the A. G. Bartlett building (a.k.a. Union Oil, 1911) on West Seventh; with his son Donald at the firm from 1920, he designed the Coliseum (1923) and, with Albert Martin, no less an icon than City Hall (1928). Adding to the roster the masterpiece of his Bullock's-Wilshire store (opened in 1929), it becomes clear that the man and the history of Los Angeles can be read as one.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The architect's own house once stood downtown at the southeast corner of St. Paul Avenue and Sixth Street, where he lived with his family from 1901 to 1915 in five-bedroom, five-bath splendor. Much discussed in architectural trade journals of the era, 600 St. Paul Avenue reflected the train of thought also influencing Irving Gill and the Prairie School and seems most often to be described as early Mission Revival. Our initial assumption was that 600 had been demolished perhaps even as late as the '40s, decades after Parkinson left, and that a great deal of earth was removed with it to make way for the building now on the corner and flush with the sidewalk, one erected in 1948 for Westinghouse Electric's West Coast engineering and sales staff and currently housing medical offices. There have been pictures available of 600 from its Parkinson years for some time, but we'd found none from after the architect's tenure on St. Paul Avenue. It was then by chance that we came across a</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> small item in the </span><i>Los Angeles Times</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> of March 15, 1925, mentioning that master house mover George R. Kress would begin operations the next week to move the Parkinson house to an unspecified "outlying residential district"; h</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">ouse moving was routine during the '20s, it often being more economical, when streets were widened or trade threatened to intrude, to move one's home than to build something new. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">T</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">hen we stumbled upon the picture seen above in an unrelated story in the <i>Times</i> of July 25, 1926, the house </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">not identified in the text </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">but </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">recognizable to us</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">...while at first glance it appeared to be an earthquake or flood or tornado casualty, it was instead a distinctive house in the process of being moved off its corner perch, visual confirmation that the Parkinson house must have had a second act. Before discovering firmer evidence of the move, we had wondered if </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Parkinson himself might have taken his house with him when he left St. Paul Avenue in 1915 for 688 Wilshire Place, situated just below the famous boulevard that was then still thoroughly residential but that by 1929 would be in the shadow of his own Bullock's-Wilshire store. (As an architect, Parkinson was in a position to grasp demographic trends ahead of the curve. He sold 688 in March 1920 and moved to <a href="https://www.smconservancy.org/2019/07/woodacres-designation/">808 Woodacres Road</a> in Santa Monica, no doubt understanding that Wilshire would eventually be a commercial thoroughfare in short order, all the way, in fact, to the ocean.) Photographs of his house on Wilshire Place, however, reveal a structure with large crossing gables, shapes that are the antithesis of Mission and Prairie styles: more evidence that he left his old house behind on St. Paul. Additional research revealed that the St. Paul house had its distinguished pedigree bolstered even further after the departure of Parkinson when it became </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the first home of the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, founded by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in 1915. Two of the school's most famous students were Lillian and Dorothy Gish, who, along with their mother, leased 600 St. Paul briefly while Ruth and Ted were on tour that fall, long enough for the family to become </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">listed there in the 1916 Los Angeles city directory and for there to be—at least as anticipated by theater columnist Grace Kingsley of the <i>Times</i>—"lawn parties and pink teas galore." </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Lillian reported in her 1969 autobiography that her mother had rented the house, its large living room converted into a studio, as practice space for her daughters. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Denishawn S</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">chool moved to the former quarters of the Westlake School for Girls at 616 South Alvarado Street </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">two years later. In the wake of all this architectural and terpsichorian creativity came the Liberty Club, apparently a facility for demobbed servicemen, which appears to have occupied 600 St. Paul until at least several years after the First World War.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">But the question remained: To where might the house have been moved? There had been hope that it might still be standing to the west, most likely along the Sixth Street corridor, perhaps as far west as Hancock Park—though house moves even to Beverly Hills were not unusual. If it did happen to still stand, it was likely to have been altered beyond recognition or it would most certainly be celebrated today by the multitude of Los Angeles architecture aficionados and Parkinson authorities such as Stephen Gee, the title of whose excellent <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Iconic-Vision-Parkinson-Architect-Biographies/dp/1626400083/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415455654&sr=1-1&keywords=iconic+vision+john+parkinson">Iconic Vision: John Parkinson, Architect of Los Angeles</a></i> tells it all. While we had offered the prize of d</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">inner at Romanoff's or Perino's to the first person</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">and his hundred closest friends </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">who found the location of Parkinson's </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">St. Paul Avenue </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">house after its move—who discovered whether it was dead or alive—it seems that we get to treat ourselves to a fantasy meal: </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The house John Parkinson built for himself at 600 St. Paul Avenue has been found, even if it turns out to have been lost again, once and for all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Almost by chance, while researching our project on early residential <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/">Wilshire Boulevard</a>, we came across an advertisement in the <i>Times</i> of March 28, 1926, picturing a familiar—and needless to say, distinctive—building at the northeast corner of Lake and Miramar streets. The photograph in the auction ad appears to reveal slight alterations to the house that once stood high up at 600 St. Paul Avenue, at least in terms of its entrance stairs. Then surfaced further "clews" (as the word was often spelled once upon a time): In a tiny item in the <i>Times</i> of January 25, 1925, it was noted that our moving man George Kress had just trundled a large house to Lake and Miramar from 626 South Alvarado Street, which would have been seven weeks before his removal of the Parkinson house to the same locale was reported; building permits indicate that the Alvarado Street house settled at the northwest corner of Lake and Miramar. In March, Kress moved a house from 525 South Westlake to the same Lake Street block; then on the 24th of the same month, permits were issued for Kress's relocation of 600 St. Paul Avenue. Wh</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">ile close in, the tract involved had only just recently been opened for subdivision. T</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">here was wholesale redevelopment of 17.5 acres at the southwest corner of Alvarado and First streets south nearly to Third; St. Vincent Hospital was planning its new facility at the southern end, with the northerly section zoned residential. At any rate, with its provenance by now forgotten, John Parkinson's 1901 home, along with the other houses moved to the neighborhood, found a new life as apartments, very likely anticipating the need to accommodate staff of the new medical facility just across the street. The Parkinson house would have about as many years at 268 South Lake Street as it did on St. Paul Avenue: In late 1949, St. Vincent's pursuit of zoning variances for hospital expansion into the blocks to its north sounded the death knell for 268 South Lake, which appears to still stand, if fuzzily, in high-altitude 1948 images. The Department of Building and Safety issued a demolition permit for the historic building on December 7, 1950; in the spring of 1952, the hospital's current building for its College of Nursing opened on the site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">A circa-1913 photograph of 688 Wilshire Place reveals that</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Parkinson did not move his old house from St. Paul Avenue to his</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">new </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">address. Curiously, while the architect is </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">listed at 688 in Los Angeles</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">city directories from 1915 through 1920, an item in</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> the </span></span><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">Southwest Contractor and</i></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">Manufacturer</i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">of January 13, 1917, describes the architect as "preparing plans for a 2-</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">story, 8-room English-style </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">residence for himself on Wilshire Place." The date is puzzling,</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">but so is, to some degree, Parkinson's seeming departure from the modernity of 600</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">600 St. Paul. Perhaps he was wisely </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">wisely considering resale value in a new</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">district </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">largely dominated by faux antiquity. Below is his next house,</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.8px;">which unlike his first two, still stands in Santa Monica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Illustrations: <a href="http://latimes.com/">LAT</a>; <a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/index.htm">USCDL</a>; <a href="http://yesjones.com/HGLA/index.html"><i>Homes and Gardens of the Pacific Coast</i></a>;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Michael McNamara/</span><a href="https://la.curbed.com/2020/1/15/21065040/john-parkinson-santa-monica-home-for-sale-spanish-mediterranean" style="font-family: verdana;">L.A. Curbed</a></div>
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JAMES PARK</a> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://westmorelandplacelosangeles.blogspot.com/">WESTMORELAND PLACE</a></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;">FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORIC LOS ANGELES, CLICK <a href="http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/">HERE</a></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>uilt circa 1889 at the southeast corner of what is today Eighth and Crocker streets,</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> i</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">t still stands, if 3.2 miles to the west and reconfigured, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">at 1498 West 35th Street, to which it was moved in 1908.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> After arriving in Los Angeles during the Boom of the 1880s, builder and real estate investor Eugene Shipley acted as contractor for many very large Los Angeles residences, including Frederick H. Rindge's extant 1902 landmark house at </span><a href="https://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2015/04/2263-south-harvard-boulevard-please.html" style="font-family: verdana;">2263 South Harvard Boulevard</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">. 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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>oday there is often more to the photographic collections of many libraries than first meets the eye—a case in point would be that of the University of Southern California, whose digital database includes a "zoom" feature that allows for some extraordinary discoveries not at all evident in images initially found. An example of such serendipity would be the house </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">built at 317 South Vermont Avenue in 1912 by John N. Kirkland, an owner of the American Drug Company, which he had formed with his brother Derwent in 1907 and which merged with the Sun Drug Company in 1922. Almost indistinguishable in a circa-1930 panorama taken from the east side of Vermont looking west and northwest, the house reveals itself as we, like eagles, zoom in:</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Department of Buildings issued John Kirkland a construction permit for an eight-room residence on May 6, 1912; Pasadena architect Luther S. Munson was indicated on the document as the designer. At the time that 317 was built, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">South Vermont</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> was a narrower residential street not yet slated to become a primary north-south arterial road. Major street alterations in the planning stages during the mid-teens would drastically alter the domestic tranquility of the Kirkland house and its neighborhood, though it must be said that quite a few builders of big houses in the Wilshire District suffered from a similar kind of bad timing, simply a risk inherent in any real estate endeavor in a city experiencing growth as explosive as that of Los Angeles. The Kirklands were no doubt encouraged in the viability of their residential effort by the grand estate being built around the corner at the same time—it was once at 255 South New Hampshire—by former Los Angeles mayor Henry T. Hazard. While the Kirkland family would own their house into '50s, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">they began to rent parts of it after 1920; an early tenant was the Russian Arts Club. Instead of throwing in the towel completely and selling the house to commercial developers—or having it jacked up and moved to a new neighborhood, as more than a few Angelenos did—the Kirklands ignored offers to buy, stayed put, and even built a separate small dwelling at the rear of the property in 1922 for additional income. The garage was converted to yet another dwelling in 1932, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">by which time Vermont was overwhelmingly commercial and undoubtedly noisy, heavily trafficked with automobiles and cars of the V line of the Los Angeles Railway. Yet neither these incursions or John's death in 1933 would pry Mary Kirkland from her home; her 53-year-old son William, also in the drug business and apparently no longer married, moved in by the end of the decade. (The Kirklands also had a daughter, Dorothy, who was born in 1893; she became a cellist, never married, and died in 1935.) The house at 317 South Vermont had been further subdivided by this time for income in addition to that coming from tenants at the rear of the property. By 1942, it was Mrs. Kirkland and William who were listed in the city directory at 317½, out back; the converted garage was demolished after a fire in 1947 as the Kirkland tenancy began to wind down.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>orn in northwest Louisiana in 1866, Judson Claudius Rives was living in New Orleans in 1910. Preparing to make big changes in his life by marrying, apparently for the first time, and by moving west to Los Angeles, Rives would be entering the hot real estate market in his adopted city. Having made his fortune in lumber, he was ready to invest in property, including a parcel for a serious house for himself and his bride in one of the many new westerly suburbs of the city. The Los Angeles Country Club, planning to decamp for the Westside grounds it occupies today, had sold its former site at the northwest corner of Pico Boulevard and Western Avenue to the developers of the Country Club Park subdivision. For his lot there, at the center of the eventual fully improved tract (today delineated by preservationists as an area within the boundaries of Western, Pico, Olympic, and Crenshaw), Rives hired Alfred F. Rosenheim to design a rambling brick house that remains today at the northeast corner of Westchester Place and West 12th Street. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">An item in the March 29, 1913, issue of the trade journal <i>Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer</i> described the house as follows:</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">"BRICK RESIDENCE—Archt. A. F. Rosenheim...has completed plans and will take bids next week for the erection of a 2-story and basement 12-room brick residence...for Judson C. Rives. The design is Italian renaissance. A terrace paved with Welsh quarry tile will extend almost entirely around the house with a porch at the main entrance and porte cochere on the side. Extreme dimensions 60x70 ft. Concrete foundation, tapestry brick facing with pattern work of different shades of the same brick, terra cotta trimmings, clay tile roof, copper gutters, downspouts and dormers, structural steel, five bathrooms four of which will have tile floors and wainscot and marble trim, tile wainscot on sink side of kitchen, marble vestibule at main entrance, Mott plumbing fixtures, plate glass windows, hot water heating system with thermostat control, vacuum cleaning. The drawing room will be finished in mahogany and library in oak, and there will be marble mantels in both; hardwood floors throughout. There will be a large solarium with Welsh quarry tile floor and Grueby tile walls and fireplace; also a circular breakfast room 13 ft. in diameter. The brocaded silk wall decorations and draperies have already been purchased in the East."</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Judson and Anna Rives made the most of their new house over the next few decades, entertaining frequently. As it turned out, Westchester Place had been one of many developments opened before the First World War all vying for the considerable dollars of the affluent looking for <i>novale</i> as the eastern West Adams district began to fray. <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/">Wilshire Boulevard</a> was still competitive residentially in 1913; successful in the long run were emerging Beverly Hills and closer-in <a href="http://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/">Windsor Square</a>, opened in 1911 north of the psychological barrier of Wilshire Boulevard. Had Rives chosen to build there, the house would most likely not have eventually become a convent. Mr. Rives died at home on November 16, 1940; as the Second World War wound down, his widow made plans to leave her home of 30 years. The Sisters of Social Service, a Benedictine order, acquired the house. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">It seems that the order lived up to word "social" in its name, doing more than praying at home. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">As one of their number was quoted in the <i>Financial Times</i> in 2003, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">"'When I selected to enter this religious community I did so because of the work,' recalls Sister Phyllis McCarthy, 73, who studied psychology at UCLA and worked as a parole officer before joining the order. 'They weren't nunny nuns.'" The sisters were as involved in their community as any group could be, not remaining elusive and cloistered but making full use of 1130 Westchester Place much in the way the Rives had intended when they built it in 1913. The sisters</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> would remain until 1994.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Enter film producer Jonathan Shestack, who converted the house back to a single-family residence. After years of decline, the neighborhood was considered an eccentric choice for a family of movie means. The adventurous Shestack brought a new balance to 1130 Westchester Place, where his young family succeeded the Riveses, a couple on their own, and the large family of Sisters. In 1995 he and his wife Portia Iversen</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> founded and based their advocacy and fundraising group Cure Autism Now in the house.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">With the Shestacks having led the way, neglected neighborhoods founded a century or more ago as refuges for the rich are becoming magnets for new generations </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">as Los Angeles gentrifies through the 2010s; the significant housing stock of the Country Club Park district, at the center of which is Westchester Place, as well as that of old West Adams, is being renewed with welcome vigor.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">his typical Los Angeles house of the old western suburbs has an interesting multicultural history. Built in </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">1914 on what was then the very edge of the city—the Home Villa Tract in which it was built was part of the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Colegrove annexation of just five years before—the Mission Revival house initially addressed 2841 West 27th </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Street represents a particular crossroads the affluent Los Angeles home builder faced before the First </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">World War, one that determined the arc of the house's history. In the year of its construction, the West Adams </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">District was comprised of older neighborhoods extending back to Main Street and newer ones almost as far west as </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Crenshaw Boulevard. Enormous houses on veritable in-town estates were going up along Adams Street quite far </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">from its original bon ton stretch roughly between Figueroa and Hoover. But at the same time, so too were palatial new </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">residences being built out along Wilshire Boulevard; Beverly Hills was rising, if slowly; streets and </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">sidewalks were being poured in the original Windsor Square; Los Feliz was being developed; and Pasadena's fashionable </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">mien was steadfastly alluring. The Angeleno who found himself wishing to build a big house knew not where </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to settle in the vast city—while it wouldn't be determined definitively until the Depression, it stood to reason that not </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">all of the city's neighborhoods of enormous houses could survive with their reputations for fashion intact. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">As a linear residential neighborhood, Wilshire Boulevard would die fitfully through the 1920s, perhaps 98 </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">percent of its houses ultimately destroyed; West Adams would fade dramatically in its entirety even if much of its </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">stock of mansions remains, some altered to </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">accommodate many more people than originally intended and some </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">adapted to new uses. The </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">demographic forces that pushed the rich this way and that in Los Angeles actually have less to do with </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">fashion and more to do with the dramatic population growth of the '20s and the resulting housing crunch, compounded by aging </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">structures and then the Depression. (A short summary of the fate of West Adams may be read <a href="http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles.com/2012/04/word-on-maturation-of-west-adams-there.html">here</a>.) One response to the dramatic population </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">growth of the City of Los Angeles over the years was annexation of new territory, which resulted in address </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">realignments over the years, particularly in the West Adams District. Initially designated 2841 West 27th </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Street, the Hauerwaas house became 3805 by 1920; downtown stationers were once again delighted with yet </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">another change four years later, when "3741" was settled upon.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A rendering of the Hauerwaas house appeared in the <i>Times</i> of March 22, 1914;<br /> construction was to begin within two weeks. It was to be of white stucco<br />with green tiles on the roof overhang; the entire first floor was<br />to be finished in crotch and Tabasco mahoganies.</span></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Back to 27th Street. Born in Wurzburg, John A. Hauerwaas came to Los Angeles in 1883 at the age of 21, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">making haste to invest lucratively in real estate, with a fallback in beer. He also earned a reputation as a </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">sportsman, the <i>Times</i> once calling him the "Best Shot of Los Angeles." As a partner in Adloff & Hauerwaas, he </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">bottled the popular Schlitz and Wieland brews. With ever-growing Los Angeles requiring ever more land and </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">beer, Hauerwaas had it all covered; had he survived beyond the age of 44 he might have left an even bigger estate </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to his wife Lucy a</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">nd their five children. As it was, the family was well-fixed. After nearly a decade in Alfred J. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Salisbury's Victorian house on Hoover Street (Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #240), Lucy decided to </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">go modern two miles west out on 27th Street. One wonders if her husband would have decided on the new district </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Lucy chose. Would he have better been able to read the tea leaves of Los Angeles real estate and have moved </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">his family more northwesterly toward one of the ultimate winners in the stakes for in-town neighborhoods of fashion? </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Lucy appears to have been a woman able to make up her own mind, one who probably understood the risks of real estate and that in Los Angeles, the chips could fall anywhere. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">After acquiring a 32,000-square-foot lot in the Home Villa Tract, she engaged as architect for her new house a non-</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">architect, William Bosbyshell. A banker and real estate developer, Bosbyshell seems to have developed </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">enough of a </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">creative streak </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">as a contractor</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> to design an adept modern counterpoint to Lucy's gabled former home. The Department of Buildings issued a permit to begin construction on March 20, 1914. Now nearly a century old, the resulting</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> white stucco Mission Revival house has stood the test of time and the vagaries of its neighborhood.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Seen on the S.S. <i>Amerika</i> bound for Europe in 1910 are Lucy Hauerwaas, at right;<br />Lucy, Gertrude, and Edna are next her. John Conrad Hauerwaas, later based in<br />New York as the president of U.S. Steel Products Division of U. S. Steel,<br />hold the life preserver with his youngest sister Evelyn inside.</span></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Lucy Hauerwaas's mettle was not to be underestimated. Evelyn, the youngest of her five children, was born 19 </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">days after her husband died. Three-year-old Evelyn accompanied her mother and four siblings on a remarkable </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">automobile trip from April to November of 1910. The family drove north from Los Angeles to Vancouver and </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">then across the Canadian Rockies to Chicago before reaching New York, where they boarded the S.S. <i>Amerika</i> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">along with the car for a motorized Grand Tour. Back home on 27th Street, the rest of the decade played out </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">with the older children marrying; one daughter, Lucy, married tire manufacturer Roy Renzo Meads and would later </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">live with her family on 27th Street following her mother's remarriage, after 19 years, to rancher Jasper Newton Teague, known at one time as the "Cauliflower King" of Southern California. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Moving then to Arcadia, Lucy Teague appears to have left her house to her children. While Lucy and Roy, who were </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">divorced before long, lived in the house with Evelyn, it was another sister, Gertrude, married to the wonderfully </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">named Lafayette Rounsabelle, who appears to have taken charge. Perhaps feeling stuck with a white elephant in the worst year of the Depression, Mrs. Rounsabelle filed an application with </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the buildings department in 1933 to alter the house for use as a boarding school. The next phase of 3741</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> is somewhat unclear, with one source indicating that the house was retained by the family and let to the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Kalifornia Kiddie Kamp—soon renamed Kalifornia Kiddie Kollege—the initials of which one hopes was only a clueless choice. While foreclosure </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">would seem unlikely given the presumed deep pockets of Lucy Teague and the vast landholdings of her husband, perhaps 3741 was the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">actual responsibility of the Rounsabelles and the divorcing Meadeses who were finding themselves </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">with too much house on their hands and in over their heads financially. Another source indicates that the Bank of Hollywood came into full possession in 1933 and was now </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the landlord, selling off during its ownership a significant portion of the lot on the east side of the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">house. By 1937, in any case, the house reverted to residential use when a second interesting family came </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">into possession of 3741 West 27th Street.</span></div><div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">California-born Masako Kusayanagi was a Nesei, a second-generation Japanese, who appears to have led her family from a small house at 752 Micheltorena Street to the big house on West 27th when she had just recently been graduated from U.S.C. and was pursuing a medical career. It is unclear as to why the house would have been put in her youthful name when it was bought from the Bank of Hollywood, unless it was a prescient attempt by her father to circumvent trouble in the next several years. Takejiro Kusayanagi had been the proprietor of a dry goods store on Main Street since 1906; he and his wife Matsu had five daughter and a son ranging in age from 10 to 27 in 1937. There was plenty of room remaining on the lot for their addition of a formal Japanese garden, and for the family in the new house, although their tenancy would be interrupted after Pearl Harbor when the government ordered the internment of Japanese Americans in February 1942. By cleverly putting the house into the name of their Kusayanagi Investment Company, the family was able to retain 3741 during their stay at Manzanar for the duration. Before leaving for the Owens Valley Masako had been a resident physician at Los Angeles County General Hospital. In Manzanar she was on the staff of the camp hospital, but when she returned to Los Angeles and to West 27th Street, Dr. Kusayanagi was denied her former position at County General. The family retained the house until passing it along to a church in 1954, just after Takejiro and Matsu finally became naturalized U.S. citizens.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Centenary Methodist Church, which then had its sanctuary at 3500 South Normandie, served a large Japanese congregation, presumably among them the Kusayanagis. The year after the church came into possession of 3741, it submitted an application to the city to convert it into a boarding facility for 20 people, the house's second use as a group facility. As it prepared to move from Normandie and 35th back to its original neighborhood of Little Tokyo in the early 1980s, the church sold 3741 to Logan Westbrooks, Director of Special Markets at CBS Records in the 1970s and founder of Source Records. Westbrooks also founded the Helping Hands Home for Boys, which moved into 3741. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Until recently the Hauerwaas house remained a boarding facility, as it had been since 1955, and during the '30s; in 1998, Westbrooks sold it to Nebraska-based Father Flanagan's Boys' Home.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">One of the seemingly intractable myths attached to the Hauerwaas-</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Kusayanagi house is that it was once the residence of heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey. This information crops up in more than a few items one encounters when researching the property. The most thorough investigation has been done by Anna Marie Brooks in preparing documents proposing it for recognition by the city as a historical site; in none of her material does the name Jack Dempsey appear (Ms. Brooks's comprehensive report, including an exhaustively detailed description of the house, may be read <a href="http://cityplanning.lacity.org/StaffRpt/CHC/7-15-10/CHC-2010-1179.pdf">here</a>). In the 1920s Dempsey did live in a Mission Revival house in West Adams, one at <a href="http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/jack-dempsey-on-western-avenue/">2415 South Western Avenue</a>, now demolished; by late 1925 he had moved miles north to Los Feliz. The property may well be on Father Flanagan's hands for a while, given </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the New Jersey marketing broker's</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> limited knowledge of the house and its city. His website refers to the house as "</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Built in the 1920s...</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">a perfect example of the elegant architecture </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">that graced the Los Feliz district of Hollywood in the 1920s...3741 </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">West 27th Street was the home of the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Jack </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Dempsey, when he was a fighter. It was donated in 1995 to Father Flanagan’s Boys </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Town by the boxer’s daughter.” Where to begin with such a clueless, confused listing?</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The setting is less verdant, the neighborhood less desirable, but the house looks pretty much the same today as it did in 1914. Perhaps not a typical Los Angeles house of the old western suburbs after all, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">3741 West 27th Street has justifiably become Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #990.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"T</span>he house is located at 331 South Mariposa Avenue," reported the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> when it was sold in 1921 by the family that built it 10 years before. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The house </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> located at 331 South Mariposa Avenue. But where might it be now?</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Indiana native Joseph M. Overell came west with the 20th century, arriving in Los Angeles from Evansville in 1898 after a successful career as a building contractor, architect, and planing-mill owner. With an affinity for wood, he opened a Spring Street furniture emporium in partnership with George L. Louden and, a few years later, a store of his own, the instantly booming </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">J. M. Overell Furniture Company. Joe worked hard pushing davenports, breakfronts, and canterburies out the doors of his showroom on downtown's Furniture Row; he also worked hard at making sure that those buying from him on the installment plan didn't enjoy their parlor suites without paying up, sending his sons Arthur and Ira out to forcibly retrieve goods not paid for. In 1906, thugs Arthur and Ira were convicted in court of assaulting an old man whose son was in arrears. (Though they became fairly rich and had social aspirations, the Overells were perhaps never what you would call genteel, their being in trade the least of it.) After a decade spent living with his family east of Main Street, most recently in a still-extant dwelling at <a href="https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2020/03/242-east-adams-boulevard-please-also.html">242 East Adams Boulevard</a>, it was time for a statement house in the manner of all prosperous burghers. While its bungalowesque style was replicated by many local architects to the point of quickly becoming a Los Angeles trademark and then just as quickly being seen all too often, Overell's new house, though hardly distinctive by the time it was built in 1911, may have actually been his own interpretation of the genre, given his prior architectural experience; he may very well have also acted as his own contractor. In any case, Joseph Overell made the decision to move not directly west along the still-fashionable <a href="http://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/">Adams corridor</a> but to the northwest. While ultimately his new neighborhood proved to have no more longevity in terms of exclusivity than West Adams—being not quite as far west in the burgeoning Wilshire District as those neighborhoods that would hold their cachet into the 21st century—at the time, despite the barrenness of early development, tracts in the precincts of Mariposa Avenue signified having <i>arrived</i>. Designated 431 before the city's annexation-related renumberings of 1912-13 altered it to 331, Overell's new </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">gabled house—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">termed "Elizabethan" by the <i>Los Angeles Times—</i>was big and airy and had plenty of room for Joe and Anna and the four of their six sons still living at home. Sadly, Joe didn't get to enjoy his hard-earned house for very long, expiring as he did at age 59 in Long Beach on December 13, 1912. His widow assumed the presidency of what was very much a family firm—all of the Overells' six sons would eventually work for the company, if not always so amicably. (Strife at the office would turn out to be only a small part of the family's troubles; Joe and Anna's granddaughter Beulah Louise Overell would be tried for murdering her parents by blowing up their yacht in a wonderfully <i>noir</i> 1947 case, to be described in due course.) Although she would be dead a year after leaving Mariposa Avenue, Anna Overell was one of several widows of prominent Los Angeles merchants who took over the corporate reins when their husbands died: </span><a href="http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles.com/2011/07/20-edwin-james-brent-house.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary Brent</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> tried her hand at the helm of Brent's Great Credit House, another Main Street furniture store, and</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles.com/2011/07/18-robert-p-mcreynolds-house.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alice Coulter</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> became president of the swanky department store bearing her name</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">It seems that after Anna Overell's sale of 331 and then her death on January 8, 1923, her six sons, as noted, were unable to keep their rivalries in check. Arthur was now head of the firm, much to the displeasure of the two youngest brothers, Robert and Lawrence, who took him to court in 1924 seeking to have him removed as trustee of their stock. Apparently, whatever the outcome of the t</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">rial, the brothers got back down to business. Given t</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">he exploding population of Los Angeles during the 1920s</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the number of Angelenos rose by 115 percent during the decade</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">there was more than enough of a demand for demilunes and divans to support all six Overell brothers and their families in haute bourgeois comfort. Sibling tension may have only been in abeyance while the cash rolled in; after the boom, in 1935, Arthur left J. M. Overell after 32 years to open his own rival furniture concern in the next block with his sons Raymond and Harold. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Ira, Oscar, Robert, Lawrence, and </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Walter Overell stayed with the original firm, though both stores appear to have closed some time before Pearl Harbor.</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">It was Walter's only offspring that would go on to bring ultimate ignominy to the family name in the dreadful year of 1947, when, two months after the Black Dahlia was found in an empty lot in Leimert Park in January, plain and plump, spoiled and lovesick 17-year-old Beulah Louise Overell and her equally immature fiancé</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Bud Gollum were charged with murdering her father and mother for an inheritance by planting a time bomb of dynamite on the 47-foot family yacht, the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary E.,</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> at Newport Beach. While it seemed to be an open-and-shut case, the pair beat the rap after a 19-week trial but split up anyway. It turned out, unsurprisingly, that a bargain furniture store could not in the long run support a yachting lifestyle; Walter was by some accounts practically broke when he was blown to smithereens, rendering Beulah's likely double parricide less lucrative in the end. She ended her days a drunk in Las Vegas in 1965, having led a life as unlamented as the fashion for her name (her full story in marvelous detail may be read <a href="http://murderpedia.org/female.O/o/overell-beulah-louise.htm">here</a>). One wonders how much infamy such as Beulah's would have hurt the family businesses had they still been open in 1947; today in the age of the anti-hero, Beulah's swagger and slick avoidance of the gas chamber would probably stimulate sales of Barcaloungers and golden bric-a-brac. As it turned out the Overell name in the annals of the history of retail commerce in Los Angeles has been forever singed by bad, sad Beulah. Yet like its old house once at 331 South Mariposa, it seem that the family must be out there somewhere, perhaps even hiding in plain sight.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Quite an interesting family legacy...but back to 331 South Mariposa Avenue, which, as mentioned, Anna Overell sold in late 1921. The purchaser was </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">George W. Moore and his son, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Harold D. Moore; at the time George was the vice-president and treasurer of, and Harold an employee at, Keystone Iron and Steel Works, an old Los Angeles company that manufactured fire hydrants, lamp standards, and other street furniture. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Harold appears to have married and left the house by 1927; George was gone by 1929.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">..and there the trail of the house's history becomes complicated. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">It appeared early in our investigation that the Overell house had been demolished, its pieces scattered to the winds, as was the common fate of similar houses in the area despite their tender ages. Unfashionable after less </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">than two decades and a bear to maintain as the Depression deepened, 331 became a boarding house; then, by the late '30s, its garage had likewise been turned into apartments. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">B</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">ut then there turned up the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">intriguing notation made by someone, perhaps the photographer, on the back of the image that served as the basis of the illustration seen here at top: "Demolished or moved." <i>Moved?</i> Although </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">moves of large houses had pretty much stopped</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> by the early '30s, given the talents of Los Angeles house movers such as George R. Kress, it could very well have been moved. But to where? Satellite reconnaissance of the usual destinations of large houses—<a href="http://fremontplace.blogspot.com/">Fremont Place</a>, <a href="http://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/">Windsor Square</a>, <a href="https://hancockparklosangeles.blogspot.com/">Hancock Park</a>—did not turn 331 up</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> on another street. A friend of Historic Los Angeles suggested that our quarry might be in Lafayette Square, but no dice...and besides, relocations of big L.A. houses were usually in a more linear direction out along the Wilshire corridor, from</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> thoroughfares wider than Mariposa and lots </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">less tight than that of 331. A trip to the bowels of the Department of Building and Safety was in order. There, among the permits found pertaining to the Overell house, were two issued</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to the latest owner, builder and developer William A. Lundberg, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">on October 21, 1941. These, intriguingly, indicate that the house was cut into two </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">pieces that were separated on the lot and remodeled into apartments by Hollywood architect J. Aleck Murrey. One unit became 331¼-½ South Mariposa Avenue, the other, 339¼-½. And so there after all remains the Overell house, hiding in plain sight if in pieces on the lot on which it was built in 1911; today, five separate units are wedged on to the site. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n addition to his interesting, alliterative, practically marketable name, Lycurgus Lindsay was one of the Big Swinging Dicks of the developing American West, a bumptious man of appetites and drive who nevertheless built one of the most delicate yet robustly designed houses ever seen in Los Angeles. Not content to live in just another example of the cookie-cutter-common Craftsman-on-steroids or overblown gabled English cottages fast becoming ubiquitous among affluent Angelenos, Lindsay took time away from his life as a hard-driving businessman to consider personal aesthetics when it came time to build a home for his family. A survivor though now obscure, the result was singular in Los Angeles, recalling the shapes of Sullivan and Wright. Also unusual was the material of which it was built: "Hard-burned" terra-cotta tile added to the sense of the Lindsay house as something both powerfully built and delicate—perhaps much like the man himself.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bull in the tile shop: Lycurgus Lindsay, indefatigable<br />Westerner and man of myriad business talents as well<br />as surprising taste, arrived in California in 1861. He<br />died in Los Angeles on September 11, 1931.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Born in northern Missouri in 1859 and taken to Sonoma County at the age of two, Lindsay's youth was spent ranging the western half of the country where he came to understand the riches that could be taken from it through husbandry and extraction. His first endeavors involved grain and cattle; he maintained interests in the latter on a grand scale even as he later became known more for his vast mining operations in the southwest and in Mexico. After centralizing his business enterprises in Los Angeles around 1905, he energetically expanded his efforts to include large stakeholdings and directorships in banks, oceanfront real estate development, and in building materials, germane to our story here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lycurgus Lindsay's local business interests included firms that produced miles of the sewer pipe new Angelenos would require, but, as mentioned, his </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">passion for business did not exclude aesthetics—h</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e also gained control of the Western Art Tile Works around the time he settled in Los Angeles, for the time being moving into 935 Grand View Street </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the Westlake district. While there, he made plans for a new and quite innovative house to be built in what was developing into something of a neighborhood of in-town estates far out on Adams Street (now Boulevard). </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While early reports in the August 1907 issue of the <i>Western Architect and Engineer</i> and in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> (including an extensive piece that appeared on January 31, 1909) cite the in-demand local firm of Hudson & Munsell as the designer, with Western Tile in charge of the actual building, there seems to be a consensus among later sources that </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lindsay may have instead engaged the services of Charles F. Whittlesey, an architect whose imagination might have made the best use of the products of Western Art to create a bold domestic statement. Perhaps there is a chance that David Gebhard and Robert Winter, in their 2003 <i>An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles,</i> have confused the provenance of the Granville Hayes house, up the street at 3300, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which Whittlesey did design, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with that of Lindsay's. But, given that </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whittlesey had at one time been a protégé of the artistically inspiring Louis Sullivan, as</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> was Frank Lloyd Wright, it would seem that he might indeed be a better fit as the designer of 3424 West Adams</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. The house he may then have designed for Lindsay there has long been noticed for its eccentric Vienna Secessionist styling, which, though unfortunately encumbered by the detritus of a modern church in its front yard, becomes, the more closely one looks at it, a work of art. (Please, Our Lady of The Bright Mount, wake up to the beauty you possess!) While the house's original building permit appears to be unavailable—it might indicate the architect and other particulars—t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he date most often given for the Lycurgus Lindsay house is 1908, which appears to be the year construction began. (At top is a photograph of the house in its final stages of building.) Lindsay—who, by the way, despite its charm to us today, is said to have not been fond of his Greek first name, preferring "L. Lindsay"—is noted in city directories from 1905 to 1909 as living on Grand View Street before being listed at 2610 West Adams from 1910 to 1913—"2610" being the new house's original designation before Los Angeles's 1912 house renumbering program implemented to accommodate annexations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The loveliness in Lycurgus's vision is especially<br /> apparent in the 2010 color shots: the front, above, and a<br /> detail of the rear corner, below. The stretch of Adams Boulevard west from<br />Arlington lies on a parallel ridge that drops off behind the houses on the south<br />side, affording dramatic views. Here were built houses on some of the largest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While there are the indications that the Lindsay commission was first given to Hudson & Munsell before possibly being offered to Whittlesey, the choice of the latter, given his training, may make all the more sense given its unique features as explained in the accompanying article from the <i>American Carpenter and Builder</i> of October 1, 1913, features that would seem to require more imagination as well as more time for fabrication than ordinary balloon-frame construction. Perhaps too, in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, Lindsay decided he wanted something other than what may have been a conventional wooden design offered by Messrs Hudson and Munsell. At any rate, whoever may have been the actual architect and however well Our Lady of The Bright Mount maintains it, the Lindsay house, (possibly) one of the few Whittlesey creations still standing, should be celebrated. Would anyone care to contribute to a letter-writing campaign asking Our Lady to tear down that breezeway...if not its sanctuary?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"One of the most unique and thoroughly fireproof dwellings in the southwest has just been built on the outskirts of Los Angeles., by L. Lindsay. The house is built entirely of hard burned terra cotta tile.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"This house and grounds stand prominently to the front as a model of the true California home. When it is said that the grounds are 250 by 700 feet in dimensions, it is easy to see that there are bound to be unique features about them. There is; the land slopes back from the street front, down quite a sharp hill side. In order to make the most of the site, the owner has had the slope terraced, with heavy retaining walls built. There is a succession of three terraces, and then a gently sloping stretch to the rear street. One retaining wall is eighteen feet high.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The interior is a marvel of harmony. fine selected quarter-grain oak and Peruvian mahogany having been used throughout. There are just six rooms on the lower floor, but they are rooms. Some are almost as large as the ordinary dwelling. Entering from a side porch ones goes into a reception hall of generous size. The most striking feature is a huge art-glass window, immediately to the south, through which the sunlight gleams and show up the delicate colors of the glass work. A waterfall scene is the central feature, with panels on either side of kindred subjects. To get the effect desired, there are as many as seven thicknesses of glass over some parts.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The stairway to the upper floor also springs from this hall, the art-glass windows being on a landing a few feet above the first floor level. There is a commodious living room, with a huge fire-place, to the left of the reception hall, and beyond on the east side of the house is the conservatory. This is a sunny room, with leaded-glass windows, and a deep tile-lined trough around the sides for plants. This room is finished in beautiful green and brown glazed tile.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The dining room opens from the living room, to the south, and is a pleasant, well-lighted place finished in dark Peruvian mahogany. The service portion is to the rear, with commodious kitchen, pantry and butler's pantry all finished in white glazed tile and hard cement plaster, which is laid on the inner faces of the first wall tiles.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"There are five large, pleasant chambers on the upper floor, practically all intercommunicating, as well as having access to the large second-story hall. The finish, with the exception of the hall, is in an ivory enamel. The hall is quartered oak.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"On the third floor, or attic, is another set of apartments, for the servants. This very complete, with baths, and pleasant, sunny rooms. A hall about 60 feet long, is a feature of the attic story, and furnished plenty of room for entertainments, such as dancing.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Another feature not mentioned in the construction is that it is practically earthquake-proof. A house of similar nature passed through the recent horrible seismic disturbance of Southern Italy and is still in as good shape as when first built. It is constructed of hard burned hollow tile, laid up in cement mortar, and reinforced every two or three tiers of the tiles with a webbing of steel wire mesh. This makes the mass practically a unit, able to resist the pull and bend of the earthquake. A similar method has been employed in building the Lindsay residence, not only in the house, but the retaining walls and all other work."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>f we were inclined to amp up our </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">backlot-spawned </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fantasies of living on a street out of <i>Our Town, Leave It to Beaver, </i>or<i> Shadow of a Doubt, </i>the house we'd<i> </i>choose would be the one built in 1925 at 904 North Rexford Drive in Beverly Hills. The distinctions of snobbery are no less real in that lovely town than in Grover's Corners, Mayfield, or Santa Rosa, but our desire to live in it</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> has nothing to do with 904's socially superior location in the 'Hills, above Sunset Boulevard no less</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. Neither does it have anything to do with its architecture; there are certainly hundreds of such commodious Mediterranean pastiches in various glamorous precincts of Los Angeles, and it has never really been a style we've been attracted to unless a definitive Coate, Neff, or Smith creation. In our Southern hometown, such designs were in the newer, tackier suburbs (not that we would ever make such undemocratic distinctions, mind you). But </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> upper-middle-class Angeleno mini-palazzo is different: A</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t this writing, 904 North Rexford Drive</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> has remained basically untouched for 87 years, making it practically a mirage in Los Angeles. Only recently and reluctantly was the house abandoned by the 101-year-old daughter of the man who built it when she was called to a more conventional kind of heavenly rest from her bed at 904 on November 9, 2011. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Records concerning the offspring of Frank and Florence are at first glance somewhat fuzzy. Their daughter Frances, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for instance, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">elsewhere reported as having been born to them on June 6, 1910, is missing from the federal census of the Winter household at 2221 Third Avenue taken in January 1920, while a son named George W. Winter, age five, is enumerated. Born on May 1, 1914, young George died on January 15, 1922, after being struck by an automobile near home, which was at this time 2330 West 21st Street (a 1906 Hunt & Eager design demolished in 1962). Fifteen</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> years old when the family moved to Beverly Hills three years later, Frances Winter </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was graduated from Marlborough, a few miles to the east of Rexford Drive; afterward she matriculated at U.C.L.A. a few miles to the west and, getting out of town for a bit, at the University of Washington, earning a degree in psychology. To confirm her status as a daughter of the upper reaches of the haute bourgeoisie, she pledged no less of a college sorority than Kappa Kappa Gamma, the famously orgulous breeding ground of debutantes and Junior Leaguers. One might speculate as to the family life of the Winters and the sadness over a lost son. Was Frances kept close to home, even after college, as a result of this loss? There were many family trips, including annual voyages to Hawaii, sometimes on the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lurline, </i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and to New York—interestingly, sometimes also by sea through the Panama Canal. Later there was a weekend house in Palm Springs. When at home in Beverly Hills, Frances, like her mother, participated in the genteel, little-white-glove social activities of ladies of her era and station. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">No shut-in, she also enjoyed games of tennis at the Los Angeles Country Club, in which she maintained a membership along with one at the Beach Club in Santa Monica. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">She played bridge enthusiastically, bringing similar energy to the cultivation of her rose garden and to the care of her dogs. There was also the careful tending of what seems to be the original decoration of 904, even down to specific paint colors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The dining room, utterly conventional except for the carved </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">alabaster </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">screens above the windows</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In truth, no photographs of the kitchen of 904 have surfaced. But we</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">serviceability—and servants. There is a big porcelain </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">O'Keefe & Merritt range, made in Los Angeles, and</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Still life: <i>Frances with Clock</i>. Or is that young George? The frozen-in-1925 look</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A lovely lemony bedroom...about as colorful as the Winters </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">would have it. The furniture in all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">rooms of the house </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">appears as though it could be from Beverly Hills's own</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">W. &. J. Sloane.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">no pool. (Even the much grander <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/641-south-irving-boulevard-please-see.html">Jenkins house in </a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/641-south-irving-boulevard-please-see.html">Windsor </a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/641-south-irving-boulevard-please-see.html">Square</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pool-</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">less; its use in </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunset Boulevard, </i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">later in </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rebel </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Without </i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a Cause, </i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">required that one be dug.) </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Contrary to</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nouveau </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">riche </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">movie folk. While luxury is </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">former </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">West Adamsites </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">valued </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">quality </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">over </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The drawing of the Winter house</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">above appeared among a collection </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">under </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the Country as Finest: Architectural Gems in Design" in the </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 29, 1925, issue of the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. Below are images</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">taken in May 2011 and July 2016, respectively; mercifully, the</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">satellite dish for an </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">antenna. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Initially offered </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">at</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">$5,700,000 on April 27, 2012.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>ornelia Hilyard, society poetess, or a lady with pretensions on both counts, hung on to her son and her house just a little too long. Malcolm Hilyard was a mess; her neighborhood was in the midst of its long decline in 1964. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">We always wondered exactly where Mrs. Hilyard lived. We first met her years ago in the odd movie <i>Lady in a Cage,</i> probably on television. Clearly filmed in Los Angeles in one of those parts of town that are the most interesting but also the most determinedly overlooked—those neighborhoods of similar big-gabled wooden houses from, say, Wilton Place east, down as far as West Adams and University Park—we had the feeling that Mrs. Hilyard most likely lived north of the then-new Santa Monica Freeway, somewhere around Pico or Venice boulevards. Watching the movie again revealed the street number of the featured house—1132—which we'd never noticed before and which would in fact put it only a block and a half or so above Pico, if it were, as suspected, on a north-south thoroughfare. The movie uses not only the front of its featured house but the back, including the service alley, which indicates a street closer to downtown. To narrow the search, we took a look at a map to find streets with alleys. And after a little bit of sleuthing by car, <i>eureka! </i>There popped into view Mrs. Hilyard's house at 1132 South Lake Street in today's Pico-Union district.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A star slums a bit, and another is born. A few front- and back-door scenes were shot on<br />location on Lake Street, as were a number actually in the street showing an endless<br /> flow of freeway-speed traffic signifying the frantic nature of urban life. The main<br />living area of the house has the stage-set-high walls of the studio, completely<br /> out of scale to the actual house but helpful in accentuating the elevator.</span></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In 1964 Olivia de Havilland's career was on a track parallel to that of </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">her character Mrs. Hilyard and to the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">aging neighborhood around </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Lake Street</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">—dignity was getting harder to assume. In the era of </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> and </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?,</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> the roles offered aging movie stars were sparse. If they wanted to keep their hand in, they had to be able to see the camp value of the few juicy roles offered them and to have a sense of humor—certainly </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lady in a Cage,</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> if played totally straight, would have been too dark to succeed commercially. The movie, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">released in July 1964, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">is seen by some as precociously reflective of post-JFK-assassination America and the end of a supposedly orderly country. In terms of Los Angeles, it seems predictive of the Watts Riots a year away in another hot summer, and it even has some characters eerily suggestive of the Manson Family to come. There are shots in the movie reflective of common fears of "The Bomb" (military jets in formation overhead) and of urban alienation and violence. There is frantic traffic in July heat. It is interesting to see Lake Street in 1964 looking as good as it does, although as you watch more of the movie you can see that the house is in a deteriorating neighborhood; wholesale moves away to roomier districts west of downtown and to the Valley had been going on since the Depression came on. No doubt after her ordeal Mrs. Hilyard sold 1132 and moved west to safer precincts, to an apartment in Beverly Hills, say, or maybe to Pasadena (she's that type). </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lady in a Cage,</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> despite seeming a bit silly today, remains disturbing—worth looking at for a glimpse into how downtown Los Angeles began to crumble in reality. There is decay and even squalor evident in 1964, but to this day, here and there, are quite well-maintained older sections. What is striking is that even now there are miles and miles of great big pre-Depression houses and apartment buildings in an enormous swath of old Los Angeles. There is still a lot of life being lived in these big old wooden L.A. houses, even if, sadly, bars on the windows might be necessary these days. The truth is, James Caan could invade the loveliest house in Hancock Park or the Westside any day, where private patrols substitute for bars.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> The view north on Lake Street from West 12th, 1907: This was suburban<br />Los Angeles. Below, the same view 104 years later; the Carr/Koons/Hilyard house<br />is at right in both shots. Many original houses in the neighborhood remain, never so<br />neglected that they were torn down and the streetscape cleared. Even some original<br />palms remain. While Pico-Union is no longer the top-drawer district it once was,<br />its old barns divided up into multiple units provide a new kind of vibrancy.</span></td></tr>
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