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ST. JAMES PARK Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. Los Angeles Herald,. December 3, 1888. Of September 4, 1887, on the subject: "Our readers will remember the beautiful St. James Park in London. It is the intention of the owners of the delightful square in our good city of the Queen of the Angeles to reproduce, under fair skies and more lofty surroundings, this chef d'oeuvre. Of European landscape beauty.". Early on, St. James Park was a frequent destination of tourist excursions. The lamps added a. Text and selected a...
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FREMONT PLACE Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO FREMONT PLACE, CLICK. Hile the Italian Renaissance–inspired. Fremont Place has been described re. Peatedly as the first house built in Fremont Place, Frank E. Horne was already settled into. By the time the Department of Buildings issued the first construction permit for. Oilman Martin Henry Mosier's grand pile. On May 14, 1915. Items in the. Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer. Indicated the ensuing progress; w. An oilman's statement house.
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FREMONT PLACE Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO FREMONT PLACE, CLICK. Ne of the earlier houses to be built behind the gates of Fremont Place was the winter home of Illinois real estate developer Charles Henry Thompson. With draftsmen at his disposal but credited himself as the. Architect of a number of Chicago-area dwellings, Thompson is referred in some sources as the designer of #100. Called by. King C. (for Camp) Gillette was famous as t. As seen in The Architect and Engineer of California,.
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WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, CLICK. Neustadt was still serving as secretary and treasurer of. The Los Angeles Times. N July 5, 1903,. That Caroline Bumiller Hickey had just sold Effie an unimproved 150-by-150-foot lot at the northeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Coronado Street. The eager new owner had engaged. The plan was for a dwelling ". In an architectural style typical of the Elizabethan.". While its interior arrangements were projected to be.
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HISTORIC LOS ANGELES
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Those Lovely California Winters. PLEASE ALSO SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORIC LOS ANGELES, CLICK HERE. F we were inclined to amp up our. Fantasies of living on a street out of Our Town, Leave It to Beaver,. Or Shadow of a Doubt,. 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. Frank Cook Winter arr...
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WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, CLICK. And, peering above it, a tower of the Shoreham Hotel on Carondelet Street; the towered, darker-appearing Hershey Arms, opened in 1907, is next to the right, followed by 2702 Wilshire. And the Dent house. Background photo: Historic Map Works. PLEASE SEND QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS TO. Text and selected artwork © 2015 Duncan Maginnis. Powered by Blogger.
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WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, CLICK. He five houses of similar size and somewhat tardy Victorian character on the south side of Wilshire between Hoover and Commonwealth were all built within a few years of each other by developer S. Tuston Eldridge. The obscure firm of Mashin and Baker designed all five; 2920 was the first to go up, building permits for it issued on August 3, 1905. Eldridge built. The following spring and then his own residence at 2932.
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WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, CLICK. Burbank was himself a developer, in his case of whole towns. In association with Moses Sherman and Eli P. Clark. He created Hermosa Beach; partnered with Henry E. Huntington, he laid out Huntington Park. H. E did not, however, as his 1920 obituary in the. Had it, found the. The family of Amos Burbank and his wife, Mary,. Would occupy 2902 for its entire lifespan, with. Illustrations: Huntington Digital Library.
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WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Historic Los Angeles
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Wilshire After Its Houses. PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, CLICK. Built within a year of each other just east of the new Bullock’s-Wilshire. The original 3006 Wilshire Boulevard. Lasted just 23 years; its replacement, the Clark Building, went up in. 1931 to the design of Morgan, Walls and Clements and still stands as of 2015. It housed the famous. Stendahl Galleries and is seen in the circa-1934 east-southeasterly view above. Starting past. The title is a.
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WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, CLICK. Lothier John Bismark Berner bought Lot 10 of the Sunset Park Tract in February 1905, six. Months after marrying Elizabeth Rath. Train and Williams, one of Los Angeles's top firms, was commissioned to design 2966 Wilshire for the site; the Department of Buildings issued permits to begin construction on October 22, 1906. Describing "beauty in Elizabethan style"—referring to the house,. Building was now two doors west and ...
