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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
skyscraperpage
who lived in that impressive white house at upper right?
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That impressive white house at upper right is 240 S. Bixel. The above photo looks south on Emerald Street from the north
side of 2nd Street. On the 1950 Sanborn Map below we see the same area in the photo. Bixel Street dead-ends into 240 on
its half-circle-shaped lot:
ProQuest via LAPL
USC dates the above photo as 1931, so the answer to your question,
e_r, is author, editor, and publisher
Samuel T. Clover,
shown here at his desk in Los Angeles in 1925. He's in the LA City Directories at 240 S. Bixel from
1926 to
1934:
ps_mss_cd13_183 at New York Public Library
His book
A Pioneer Heritage has information on Rancho La Brea and the Hancock family.
Clover had the residence at 616 St. Paul Avenue moved to 240 Bixel in 1925. Unfortunately, this March 3, 1925, building
permit for moving the house is both sloppily written and faint. Clover's address is given as 221 O. T. Johnson Bldg.,
where at the time he edited
Los Angeles Saturday Night:
LADBS
This permit to add a porch to 240 Bixel one month later is much clearer:
LADBS
On the 1910 Baist Map below, 6th Street is at the top, Orange (later Wilshire) is at the bottom, and Lucas Street is
at left. I've enclosed 616 St. Paul in a blue rectangle; the house directly to its north was architect John Parkinson's
at 600 St. Paul. Have we ever discussed the house and grounds on the SE corner of 6th and Lucas at upper left?:
HistoricMapWorks
We can see just a bit of 616 St. Paul, south of Parkinson's 600 St. Paul, in a newspaper photo at
GW's post on
Parkinson's house.
USC dates this photo looking west on 6th Street (at the right edge of the photo) as ca. 1925, and it might have
been taken that summer. The apartment building/hotel with the yellow dot, which appears to be under construction,
is at
616 St. Paul and replaced the home moved to 240 S. Bixel. The red arrow points to the large residence at the
SE corner of 6th and Lucas
(1136 W. 6th?), surrounded by trees:
CHS-9069 at USCDL
Samuel Clover died in 1934. His son Greayer, a Los Angeles High School graduate, died in an airplane crash in
France in WWI on
August 30, 1918. Santa Monica's airport was originally named for him:
March 29, 1934,
Los Angeles Times at ProQuest via LAPL
Greayer Clover's name is on one of the memorial windows at the
library across from Los Angeles HS.
The demolition permit for 238-240 Bixel is dated February 9, 1982. The north end of the
Contreras High
School Stadium is now on the site.