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Old Posted May 25, 2012, 9:45 PM
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Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1924


We've seen some of the Kress Company's amazing feats of building moving here before, but I was not aware of this one until now. This "pretentious" (a word without the negative connotations associated with it today) house was built at 3325 Wilshire Blvd. and was the home of Amy and Sollie Aronson. Amy was a daughter of Herman and Ida Hellman and sister of Marco, who lived across from the Aronsons at 3350 Wilshire. Amy died in 1920. The two main roads of Fremont Place, Fremont Place and Fremont Place West, were early in the subdivision's history referred to as Easterly Drive and Westerly Drive. The reassembled house remained at 31 Fremont Place--the northeast corner of 8th Street--at least into the '50s.

Apparently the Hellmans retained ownership of the house for some years; in the '20s and early '30s, one of the family's business associates, Ashley S. Thompson, was living at #31. Here's an interesting little story from Thompson's time in the house:


Los Angeles Times, November 4, 1929

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