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Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 9:23 PM
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Log House @ 1701 W. Adams @ Normandie

GW introduced us to the Log House, and er and Tourmaline found other postcards of it:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7353
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11653
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19661

Here's more, starting with a larger version of one of the photos GW posted; USC dates it c. 1905:

USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/147/rec/1

USC also dates this one c. 1905; the landscaping is different, and there appears to be a driveway on the east side of the house, unlike in other photos and postcards:

USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/147/rec/1

This early photo shows the Normandie Avenue side of the house:

Autry National Center -- http://collections.theautry.org/mweb...ex=P_14753.jpg

It was built by Judge Edwin H. Lamme, apparently in late 1897:

October 24, 1897 Los Angeles Times

The home, misplaced at Budlong and Adams, is mentioned in the last sentence of this article:

April 29, 1898 Los Angeles Times

It may have also been known as Casa Rusticana (was the Judge fond of listening to Cavalleria rusticana?):

Autry National Center -- http://collections.theautry.org/mweb...x=LS_12367.jpg

The house changed little between the 1900 and 1921 Sanborn Maps:

LAPL


LAPL

The LA County Assessor says the building that's now on the NW corner of Adams and Normandie was built in 1923, so the 1921 Sanborn (and Baist) may have been the Log House's last
documented appearances.
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