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Originally Posted by tovangar2
Silent screen star Conway Tearle (1878-1938) lived in the house in the 20's. Do you know who built it or the other residents before and after Tearle?
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Before Tearle, James Henry Brown and later his son J. Creighton Brown lived in the house from 1910 at least into the '20s. Below is a bit from a section of the very interesting Brown family history
here.
"In January, 1910 [Leoline] and James purchased a home at 164 North Orange Drive in Hollywood, California. On March 11, 1910, Leoline wrote in her diary:
'I went to bank in morning, bought new number for house making it 184.' This new address of 184 is confirmed in the 1910 census and letters. A letter dated July 1, 1912, marks the first reference of yet another new address of 1784 Orange Drive. Hollywood was a relatively new community, becoming a municipality in 1903 and annexed into Los Angeles in 1910. Consequently, it would not be unreasonable to see restructuring and renumbering of addresses in its early, formative years. In a July 4, 1912, letter Leoline writes: 'There is no further word about the name of this street but 1784 is on the door, and Orlando is at the corner of the street.' The reference to 'Orlando' is unknown. Orange Drive intersects with Franklin Blvd on the north end and Hollywood Blvd on the south end."
Orlando was the former name of at least parts of Orange Drive, such as we've seen in a recent post about Hollywood High School.
Leoline Brown, seen on the porch of 1784 above, died in Hollywood on December 18, 1916. The Browns' son Creighton and his wife Flora, who'd moved into the house at some point in the 1910s, stayed on until at least November 1922 (per newspaper references).
I'm not sure if Tearle was the only one in the house after the Browns, but the ASC was in residence by 1937:
Los Angeles Times March 7, 1937
The ASC seems to have been in the Guaranty Building--now home to the planet Xenu (or whatever it is):
Google Books
Here's that building in a prior post of
ER's:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7444