The
Sten-Frenke House is
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #647.
Here are some older b/w photos of the home, while
this has some newer, color shots.
The building permits for the house (shown below) and its garage are dated August 25, 1933:
LADBS
This permit for a bomb shelter at 126 Mabery Road is dated December 16, 1941:
LADBS
Although this photo is only titled "Art moderne style beach house, Pacific Palisades or Malibu, 1934," it shows
the Sten-Frenke House and its garage on the south side of Santa Monica Canyon:
Islandora/UCLA/Adelbert Bartlett Papers
In this close-up from the previous image, at upper right the small building and concrete supports below it are remnants
of the
Santa Monica Incline Railway. Atop the bluff and behind the short section of picket fence is the "Totem Pole in
Palisades Park made by the Chilkat Thlinger Indians of Sitka Alaska which was donated by J. Walter Todd to the City of
Santa Monica in 1926" (quote from Santa Monica Public Library photo description):
Here is a contemporary aerial view of 126 Mabery Road, marked by the pinpoint near the bottom center. I believe the
building on the west side of the original house is the result of a November 28, 2012, permit for a "new accessory living
quarters." A yellow dot marks the site of the still-standing Totem Pole in Palisades Park:
Google
This is an undated view of the Totem Pole from the Santa Monica Public Library:
Digital object 4831 img0100 @
SMPL
The Totem Pole in April 2018:
GSV