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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Did Mr. Frost also have an office downtown?
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I Googled the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company earlier and found archive.org have
a brochure for their roofing tiles from ca. 1915. It has a bit about the company, pictures of various properties to illustrate different tile designs, and a list of prestigious buildings for which they've supplied tiles. Here are a couple of the property illustrations:
I could've sworn I'd seen Isaac Milbank's house on NLA because I remember checking it out on Google Maps. It turns out that the G. Lawrence Stimson designed house at 3340 Country Club Drive featured in
GW's Wilshire Boulevard Houses blog, specifically the post about
Judge Sterry's house at 2607 Wilshire Boulevard.
Another house I recognized was the G. Allan Hancock residence by John C. Austin. Unsurprisingly,
GW has also written about
3189 Wilshire Boulevard.
I also found this article in the 29 March 1908 edition of the Los Angeles Herald.
California Digital Newspaper Collection