Thanks for the information about the Bernard/Machado family, who apparently owned quite a bit of LA real estate in the 1800s.

The same year Ms. Botiller was building her Sunset Boulevard mansion, brother August Bernard was apparently trying to outdo her with this little abode in Pasadena, otherwise known as Wayne Manor from the 1960s Batman TV series.
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http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2010/0...vision-series/

Paul Williams is sometimes credited as the architect of the home, although the correct architect is Stiles Clements (Mayan Theater, Wiltern Theater, Samson Tire Factory in Commerce [now the Citadel Factory Outlets], Beverly Hills High swim gym, Adamson home in Malibu, etc.) of Morgan, Walls and Clements. Williams designed a similar looking brick tudor mansion up the street from Wayne Manor that burned down several years ago.

Thx! I'm recalling now that the place wasn't unnamed, just didn't have signage. It may have been called "The Studio" and I was going there more like 25 or thirty years ago. It was nicely noirish.

Thx too, MHS for the heads-up on 916 Georgia (in the link above). I am so ready for some smaller buildings to get saved:
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"A humble century-old apartment building in the shadow of the Ritz-Carlton hotel has sold for more than $3 million as the neighborhood around Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles proves to be a magnet for investors.

Los Angeles real estate investment firm TRG plans to turn the three-story brick building at 916 Georgia St. into small apartments it calls "micro lofts."

The small units are intended to house people who work in downtown's burgeoning bar and restaurant scene but can't afford much of the housing in the neighborhood, TRG Principal Rubin Robin said. He decided on that strategy after chatting up numerous waiters, bartenders and other hospitality workers."

The Staples Center wiped out a whole neighborhood of affordable housing where DTLA hospitality/restaurant/bar workers had lived for generations.

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No part of these houses should be missing, but then we wouldn't have had them at all if not for the men who made the money to build them. May we take a moment to remember them? For one thing, they were by and large responsible for the finer aspects of the built environment of Old Los Angeles, some of which remains today. Without them, good architects, including Gill and Hunt, wouldn't have had jobs, none of the construction jobs their projects required would have been created, and none of us would be here celebrating the best buildings that money could buy back when... just a thought.

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Per the website of the Cal Delta chapter of Phil Delta Theta:

"In 1896, Baudelio Salazar, a Mexican Senator from Chihuahua, moved to Los Angeles to become the Mexican Consul for Southern California. During that time, he built a two story house located at 1005 W. 28th St. A few years later, the house became the Los Angeles residence of Nils Bagge, a young Swedish mining engineer who developed the Almoloya gold mines in Chihuahua and other real estate throughout the Southwest and Mexico. The house was described as one of the city’s most artistic and attractive homes, with a wealth of tropical trees, shrubs and climbing vines on the grounds.

"Frederick O. Johnson purchased the house from Bagges in 1905. He was the proprietor of the prestigious Hotel Westminster in downtown Los Angeles. His sister and brother-in-law had recently built a home in nearby Chester Place. The Johnsons and their two children loved the garden of their unique home, and over the next 15 years added a conservatory off the dining room, a greenhouse, and propagating room and even purchased the property to the north in order to enlarge their garden and make room for a pergola and carriage house. They also enlarged the house, adding the two story domed parlor and a sleeping porch (later enclosed to become the bedroom over the Egyptian Room).

"F.O. Johnson lived there until his death in 1943; his funeral was held in the house. In 1950, his widow sold the house to the recently chartered Cal Delta chapter.



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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k...2520PM.bmp.jpgLos Angeles Herald March 4, 1910

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aerial -google
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1976 - Obverse
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below: I found this layout the other day.

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today
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more info:
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A couple examples of the homes in Victoria Park. (the sloped roof looks slightly 'polynesian')

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below: I wonder if these magnificent street lights were ever installed?

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They sound like the same 'electroliers' in downtown Los Angeles.
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here is a larger aerial, originally posted by MichaelRyerson
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They sound like our old friends the Five-Globe Llewellyns perhaps with a custom Victoria Park stone base.

You can see how some would confuse Stiles Clements’ “Wayne Manor” (aka Bernard Estate) with arguably Paul Williams’ finest residential project, the Jack Atkin house, a few doors up the street in Pasadena http://i47.tinypic.com/sdlamo.jpg
http://www.glen-hampton-gardens-desi...e-gallery.html

The Clements home was built in 1927-1928 and the Williams home in 1929. This was back when many of the wealthy tended to flock to Pasadena rather than the Westside. The Williams home cost $500,000 to build, which was an exorbitant amount back then.

Like the Clements home, the Williams home was featured in many television shows and films, including 1937’s Topper with Cary Grant
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IMO, these are architecturally two of the finest LA area homes and rival almost anything built in the Westside (Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, etc.) It's pathetic what the so-called wealthy of today come up with when designing their homes.

I remember them GW, some were horrors ("grim, inhuman individuals", as Carey McWilliams would have it) who built ridiculous conspicuous-consumption piles (which did create jobs), others, like Homer Laughlin, I'm quite fond of. He was paternalistic, but nicely so, taking his workers on opera outings, etc. and building them recreation parks (although I'm sure some workers would have preferred to get paid more and be given less). Laughlin turned out a good, useful product too. Richfield Oil's spendthrift ways were alarming and damn near sunk the company (the late 20s were, of course, legendary for such pranks), but some decision-maker there had exquisite taste, which we all benefited from (I'm glad the company was rescued by receivership, as I later worked for them off and on over 30 years). Jack Gill would have preferred, I think, to spend all his time building workers' housing and civic projects, but he would have been more broke than he was without commissions from the wealthy. I've voiced my appreciation for the Rindges here too. It's been a trade-off since patriarchy (and patronage of the arts) began. Democracy probably wouldn't result in many mansions.

I just don't share your seeming opinion though that humanity would starve to death without (often) ill-paid jobs bestowed by capitalists.

Thank you for the photo of 666 W 28th. You always come through.

Speaking of "polynesian"... I saw this house on a website a while ago that they described as "Tahitian-influenced" from West Adams. Does anyone know where exactly it is and if these types of "island influenced styles" are found in numerous instances in historic Los Angeles?

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Are these the ones installed in the center of each intersection? There's a photo of those on this thread somewhere...

Here is the location PHX31. :)

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I came across it quite by accident a month or so ago. It's on the northwest corner of Arlington & 24th.

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There is a nice bungalow next door as well.

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I am not sure, but I think both these homes might be owned by the park district.

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You're thinking of St. James Park tovanger2.

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Thx Boss, those were astounding, if maybe a bit of a traffic hazard.

Thanks ethereal_reality! That is such a cool and unique style, but I would expect nothing less from old LA.

A couple blocks north on La Cienega at "366" there is a long standing venue that has hosted live and recorded entertainment. It is currently known as Largo at the Coronet. I knew it as the Coronet Theater and its neighbor, the Coronet Pub. I was not aware that was once called the "Coronet Louvre" and LA's cinematic avant guard. "The Coronet theatre was built in 1947 by Frieda Berkoff of the famous Russian dancing family the Berkoffs." Wiki

1950

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The Pub

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