The Mayor's Residence (since 1977)
Paulson/Getty House
Meyer and Holler, 1921
SW corner, 6th & Irving, Windsor Square
1950's photo (note TV aerial) showing original chimney pots, entry lanterns, driveway gate, etc:
lockhart family
Mayor Viaraigosa's unfortunate fence (2012). Apparently several neighbors are planning similar eyesores.
larchmont buzz
Getty Oil owned this house, built by Swedish immigrants Leta and Paul Paulson, and many others surrounding it for fifteen years, starting in 1958, while trying to get a variance to develop the land to expand their Tidewater/Getty Oil headquarters at 4201 Wilshire between Irving and Lorraine. That 1956 Claud Beelman building had already displaced the Getty house used in
Sunset Blvd, 1950,
Fancy Pants,1950 and
Rebel Without a Cause, 1955 (see page 178 of this thread for extensive and worthwhile posts re that house). Getty finally gave up in the mid-70's and sold their Windsor Square holdings.
The relationship between the Getty building on Wilshire and the Getty House on 6th & Irving:
LA curbed
happier days:
wikimedia