Great shots of commercializing Wilshire Boulevard. The house at top is the famous Hancock house at 3189, also seen here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8389.
Second (and just east of the Hancock house) is 3143 Wilshire, lived in for many years by the Katherine J Sharp and later her daughter and son-in-law, the Everett Seavers.
Third is 3101 Wilshire, just east of the Sharp/Sever house; so far the only name I have in my notebook for 3101 is a Mrs. Ora Monnette.
Fourth is 601 Shatto Place, lived in for many years by Superior Court Judge William Rhodes Hervey and his family. I haven't looked into who might have designed it, but it is similar in design to, among others, the Otis house farther east on Wilshire (one of several posts on it is
here). The Herveys left 601 in the late '20s for Los Feliz. Viola Elizabeth Tantum was in residence by 1932, later selling her figs. In the '40s 601 Shatto had become the Glen Brae Sanitarium... not sure what kind of sanitarium it was, but it advertised "Exlnt food."
Interestingly, the famed director Dorothy Arzner spent some of her teenage and early adult years just up the street at 617 Shatto Place.