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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
 Balsam Hill Cabin
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.
Leoline Brown, seen on the porch of 1784 above, died in Hollywood on December 18, 1916.
I'm not sure if Tearle was the only one in the house after the Browns, but the ASC was in residence by 1937: |
Thank you again so much
GW for the exhaustive and informative research. I'm still left wondering who built the house. Hollywood (actually all of LA) certainly had that Spanish-Moorish style going, of which this house is a prime example.
There's a very evocative sentence in the Brown family history:
"It has been said that Leoline sequestered herself in the cupola of the Orange Drive house to protect her daughters and others from contracting tuberculosis." The cupola room, according to the ASC, has eleven windows and a door to the roof.
Makes me want to go there.