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Originally Posted by Scott Charles
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The big four-story building with the many domes and skylights near the lower right corner of the 1899 photo, the Phillips Block,
burned down in late 1912, and the rest of the foreground of the photo is now mostly Spring Street and City Hall so we must look
closely to find extant structures.
At least one other remaining building is identifiable in the 1899 photo, 242-48 E. 1st Street:
Previously posted by Scott Charles
Here is two-story 242-48 E. 1st on the 1894 Sanborn Map, showing The Emery Lodging House is upstairs at 244-1/2. Next
door to the west is narrow, three-story 238-40 E. 1st Street with its angled rear wall. The old Wallace Woodworth home
(Kysor and Mathews, c. 1871), which will be demolished c. 1910 when San Pedro Street is realigned and extended north
of 2nd Street (to connect with what had been Wilmington St., in the lower right corner below), is south of 242-48 E. 1st:
Library of Congress
Here is a close-up from the 1899 photo, which looks SE, with the above-referenced buildings marked. The arrow points
to the middle of 242-48 E. 1st Street; the left/east side of its front is obscured:
Shorpy
In this 1949 Arnold Hylen image we see 242-48 E. 1st Street (with the red dot) and 238-40 next door on the right:
2001-0554 @
CA State Library
This photo was taken in August 1962, showing red-dotted 242-248 and the changes that have occurred on this stretch
of 1st Street since 1949:
CHS-41613 @
USCDL
2021 Update: Here is Huntington Digital Library image 410957, showing what appears to be a 1950s photo taken between the previous two photos:
https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/i.../0/default.jpg
Contemporary Google Aerial of 242-48 E. 1st Street:
June 2017 GSV of 242-48 E. 1st Street:
Google
I believe 242-48 E. 1st Street first appears in the 1893 LA City Directory:
fold3.com and
LA Public Library