ProphetM...quite impressed you found the location of the Hollywoodland mystery home.
I had to go and take a look myself. http://imageshack.us/a/img33/6521/aa...rtondrhome.jpg ebay The surviving stairs are the best element of this 1965 home. http://imageshack.us/a/img560/630/aa...tondrsteps.jpg google street view http://imageshack.us/a/img443/3919/a...tondrhome2.jpg ebay pretty much the same view today. http://imageshack.us/a/img145/4858/a...rtowardhol.jpg google street view __ If you turn the corner... http://imageshack.us/a/img339/2241/a...all1revers.jpg google street view the massive 1920s wall continues for quite a distance. http://imageshack.us/a/img853/1527/a...ertonwall2.jpg google street view __ |
Bernard Maybeck & Greene & Greene
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OK, I finally located a photo of the station in the park! http://imageshack.us/a/img69/1296/aa...parkflickr.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/fo-to/2263411611/ Quote:
I noticed to the left, in the photo immediately above, what appears to be a longer/larger version of the the old P.E. station. It turns out it's the entrance to a Lynwood civic building within the confines of City Park. A bit odd of them to do that, especially since it's not quite right and doesn't quite work, but I'm sure it was kindly meant. There's one on the Bullis Ave side: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...440%2520PM.jpg Google SV and another on the Century Blvd side: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...243%2520PM.jpg gsv Quote:
Immaculate Heart Retreat House Operated by the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters 3431 Waverly Drive Los Angeles, CA 90027 213-644-1126 The complex has grown like Topsy: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-4...702%2520PM.jpg gsv Here's a nice pic of the Anthony's other house, it predates their Maybeck house by eighteen years: Earle C. Anthony House 1909 by architects Charles Sumner + Henry Mather Greene | 910 N. Bedford Dr | Beverly Hills http://www.you-are-here.com/building/bedford.jpg http://www.you-are-here.com/building/bedford.html Quote:
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While I was exploring Rodgerton Drive I came across this fine view (looking east).
http://imageshack.us/a/img545/6554/a...drvieweast.jpg google street view I am wondering about this estate. http://imageshack.us/a/img191/4112/a...ondrviewe2.jpg google street view closer view. Notice the stand alone tower and mini-turret. http://imageshack.us/a/img841/7350/a...ndrviewe2a.jpg google street view I feel incredibly inept because I wasn't able to locate it when I drove the googlemobile in that area. To and fro I drove to no avail. Help! __ |
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not a f@#king clue....
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"Trolley Court" Bungalows - 1941
Looks like you got half a car for $30 a month. They say it was three rooms...looks like three small rooms. No location given.
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:previous: I'd love to know where that was located. Notice the garages under the 'streetcar' on the right.
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1623 Elevado
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Zillow gives 1912 as the construction date for this 5 bed/4 bath 5,062 sq ft home. Happy birthday? http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/16...20744789_zpid/ https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-c...603%2520PM.jpg gvs Not exactly enhanced by the pool and rooftop turret: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-B...409%2520PM.jpg google maps |
"Trolley Court" Bungalows - 1941
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A nearly identical photo to the one posted here appears on page 102 of Rails of the Silver Gate - The Spreckels San Diego Empire by Richard V. Dodge - Published by Golden West Books. Cheers, Jack |
Trolley Car on South Spring, 1898
I'm sure this one's come up before, but it's always nice to watch it again.
Thomas Edison documents Victorian LA (29 seconds): https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s...243%2520PM.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXJzV3TDnZ0 |
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Here's an overhead shot via Google Maps - crenellations all over the place. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-x...551%2520PM.jpg It looks like the biggest tower that was visible from a distance is actually part of the entrance gate. This property has a very long driveway so you can't get close to it with Street View. This is the best shot that shows any of the house: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-x...829%2520PM.jpg Looking up, you can see the light-colored building and also the more brownish building on the right, also crenellated. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...009%2520PM.jpg Edit: Link to article - About that Castle in the Hollywood Hills - Curbed LA, July 1, 2009 |
:previous: Thank you for your help ProphetM. The place is horrendous...I had no idea. :(
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A photograph of the home of Los Angeles' first mayor. Does anyone know where this might be?
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Susana Machado Bernard Residence
Blimey ProphetM, you're good.
Speaking of big houses, I searched for this one on the thread and got nothing, so, just in case anyone's never seen it before, and/or ever wondered what John Parkinson was up to in 1902: Susana Machado Bernard Residence, 845 S. Lake Street at James M Woods Blvd, MacArthur Park Thirty-five rooms, including 10 bedrooms plus servants quarters. 10,032 sq ft plus carriage house. $50,000 when built. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...909%2520PM.jpg ryerson and burnham archives/art institute of chicago http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3464/...4c15b33d6c.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3374/...68a23db4b7.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/...a2694e520f.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3255/...c86e85591b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3355/...53646f605a.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3381/...a68f4b149b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/...9baa4565e5.jpg carriage house: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3336/...282b0d8e0d.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3297/...1849d67fb1.jpg above photos: http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.c...-carriage.html http://www.you-are-here.com/building/carriage_house.jpg http://www.you-are-here.com/building/machado.jpg last two photos: http://www.you-are-here.com/building/machado.html Susan Machado Bernard, a widow with eleven children, was a granddaughter of Jose Manuel Machado. He came to LA in 1781 and was one of the original founders of the city. The Bernard family owned the home until 1962. The home is now owned by The Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law which has operated it as a children's homeless shelter, Casa Libre/Freedom House, since 2002. Fascinating how Parkinson went from this to Bullocks Wilshire, City Hall & Union Station Info from links above |
:previous: The Susana Machado Bernard residence is amazing Tovanger2! Thanks.
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Mayor Alpheus P. Hodges, MD and the Bella Union Hotel
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http://www.publicartinla.com/UnionSt...ayor_sign1.jpg LAT P.S. It may be of some further interest that Dr. Hodges and his partner and friend, James Brown Winston (1820-1884), also a physician, came to LA from Virginia in 1849 and owned the Bella Union Hotel (built 1835/demolished 1940) together. Horace Bell, the author of the seminal historical work Reminiscences of a Ranger (1881) described the Bella Union as it was when he stayed there in 1851: "The house was a one-story flat-roofed adobe, with a corral in the rear, extending to Los Angeles street, with the usual great Spanish portal, near which stood a little frame house, one room above and one below. The lower room had the sign "Imprenta" over the door fronting on Los Angeles street, which meant that the Star was published therein. The room upstairs was used as a dormitory for the printers and editors. . . . On the north side . . . were numerous pigeon-holes, or dog-kennels. These were the rooms for the guests of the Bella Union. In rainy weather the primitive earthen floor was sometimes, and generally, rendered quite muddy by percolations from the roof above. . . . The rooms were not over 6x9 [feet] in size. Such were the ordinary dormitories of the hotel advertised as being the "best hotel south of San Francisco." If a very aristocratic guest came along, a great sacrifice was made in his favor, and he was permitted to sleep on the little billiard table. [In the bar] during that time were the most bandit, cut-throat looking set [of people] that the writer had ever set his youthful eyes upon. . . . all . . . had slung to their rear the never-failing pair of Colt's, generally with the accompaniment of the bowie knife." Hodges and Winston added a second story and a balcony in late 1851 (the third floor was added in 1869). Hodges was our first and youngest mayor (aged 28 when he took office in 1850). He served as mayor for one year and was also coroner and deputy sheriff. The Bella Union did double-duty as the courthouse during Hodges tenure as mayor. info from wiki & LAT |
Susana Machado Bernard Residence
Thank you e_r :-)
Ms. Bernard's late husband was French-Swiss. Although he was dead by the time the house was planned, it seems to have a fantasy, fairy-tale alpine thing going on. Harris Newmark remembered Juan Bernard in his "Sixty Years in Southern California", "Juan Bernard, a native of French Switzerland, whose daugh- ter married D. Botiller, now an important landowner, came to California by way of the Horn, in search of the precious metal, preceding me to this land of sunshine. For awhile, he had a brickyard on Buena Vista Street ; but in the late seventies, soon after marrying Senorita Susana Machado, daughter of Don Agustin Machado, he bought a vineyard on Alameda Street, picturesquely enclosed by a high adobe or brick wall much after the fashion of a European chateau. He also came to own the site of the Natick House. A clever linguist and a man of attractive personality, he passed away in 1889" https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-B...03332%2BPM.jpg http://casa-libre.org/History.html https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...831%2520AM.jpg google maps I'd take that carriage house in a minute: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3336/...282b0d8e0d.jpg bigorangelandmarks back door: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6...536%2520AM.jpg casa-libre.org There's some glimpses of the interior in this excerpt from Casa Libre/Freedom House (2008): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ1JatCKfFc https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Q...011%2520AM.jpg One of the Bernard children, Francisca Bernard Botiller, went on to build a less nice, 16,621 sq ft home in BH: 9481 Sunset Boulevard, "Sunset House" (Francis Xavier Lourdou, 1928) https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-S...245%2520AM.jpg google maps |
Westlake/McArthur Park Holdout :-)
1320 Ingraham Street, 1900
(It's neighbor to the left built in 1923 neighbor to the right built in 1990) 2010 http://www.gonegraphics.com/uglyangel/1320_INGRAHAM.JPG multiple listing service 2012 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-6...559%2520AM.jpg gvs https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5...425%2520AM.jpg google maps |
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