I've gone back through earlier posts of residences and I believe we might have missed this one.
The J.W. Robinson Mansion on Bellevue Ave. at Teed Street http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6...anoronteed.jpg http://www.stoltzfamily.us/?p=451 I haven't heard of Teed Street before so I got out my trusty 1940s Los Angeles street map and looked and looked and looked. FINALLY I found it. Just for fun see how long it takes you to find Teed. :) http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/2...oking4teed.jpg detail of map Teed is tiny, only a block or two long.....but now I can't find Bellevue Avenue. :( ______ Then I found this very old photograph of the Teed residence on a hill near the Plaza area. http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5762/teedresidence.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=65653 Then late last night EUREKA! I found these two amazing photographs showing the J.W. Robinson residence on a hilltop in 1900 and 1885. The view is looking north from Fort Moore Hill. The diagonal road at the bottom is Sunset Boulevard. http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/9...sonreslook.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1324080190892 below: I believe the road on the right is Castelar Street. http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/916...sonreslook.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1324075605708 ______ |
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL
The 1916 Parkinson-designed housing Famous Department Store at the southwest corner of Broadway and 9th began life as Blackstone's Department Store and French Salon. It was founded by a brother-in-law of J.W. Robinson of the Boston Dry Goods store, later Robinson's. Apparently now a loft conversion. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059086.jpgLAPL https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-h...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View EDIT e_r: The Robinson connection in this post is a happy coincidence.... |
I'm curious G_W...were you aware of a Teed Street?
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I'd never heard of Teed Street, and it took me a while to find it in your map. Do we think that Bellevue once followed the alignment of Ord Street? Or perhaps that the address on the stolz website is in error?
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Just thought I'd add this photograph to our collection. http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/807...ceonharvar.jpg found on ebay last year |
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Here is a description of the J.W. Robinson residence at LAPL. It mentions Belle Vue Avenue as well. http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/993...escription.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=65928 I'm going to look for an older map of that area (much older than my 1940 map) |
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-G...obinson200.jpgLATFeb 7, 1892
Now, where is Rosas Street? And I love that closeup of the Rindge house.... |
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The plot thickens. :) |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-n...2520PM.bmp.jpgProducers Library
Black and white is perfect for film noir, but color makes footage of old Los Angeles all the more accessible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDRv...el_video_title |
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I agree that Bellevue has many twists and turns but it never comes close to Teed Street. That's the conundrum. |
The ruins of this never-finished castle are - I believe - still standing in the Hollywood Hills on Pacific View Drive. I've been there but don't know the exact address. 7019 is right next door to the west of the stonework. The place has quite a history. Quite a few owners didn't finish it!
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-F...sonford250.jpgLAPL
It seems that the Robinsons moved on from Teed Street in time for Julia S. Ford to remodel the house in even higher Victorian fashion. (In my brief pokings around for this post I haven't seen any information on the Edgemonts or girls' school mentioned by rickm, but maybe that came later. Perhaps Rick can give us some more info.) http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061643.jpg Careful study reveals the original upstairs front bay and porthole window remaining after the remodeling. As for Teed, he seems to have been a ubiquitous city politician, serving in a number of capacities in the '80s and '90s including as city clerk and president of the city council. The name finally struck a bell--in my research for http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspot.com/ I remembered reference to a Teed house just at the end of what is now called variously St. James Park West or St. James Place, which, at any rate, runs directly toward a house at 2365 Scarff Street built by Freeman G. Teed in 1893. In addition to his civic duties, Teed was also apparently something of a real estate specualtor. The house we see behind the prolific vegetation there today--now L.A. Historic-Cultural Monument No. 457--is an enlargement of his original cottage by Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2...2520AM.bmp.jpgCDNC Los Angeles Herald, March 12, 1905 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-I...2520AM.bmp.jpgWikipedia |
Gracie's Castle
The address was 7013 Pacific View Drive
L.A. Times Jan. 7, 1961 http://wwww.dkse.net/david/castle.gracie5.jpg |
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http://wwww.dkse.net/david/Clara.Clemens.jpg L.A. Times Feb. 3, 1933 |
Remnants of the old unfinished castle still exist:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4602/picture3md.png Google Maps |
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_____ That google aerial view of the cahuenga castle is so cool. I would love to go traipse around on that property. Also good job on finding that article on the castle 3940dxer. |
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L.../streetcar.jpgVintage Los Angeles
East First St and Ditman Ave, December 1957 So wan 54 years later... even the vehicles. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View The Veiga-Robison Mortuary at left later moved to 5353 East Beverly Blvd, where it remained until recently. |
Re: The J.W. Robinson Residence
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Am I all screwed up :koko: (nothing out of the ordinary) or is this house... http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg403...jpg&res=medium http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1324080190892 ...sitting up by the site of the Clover Trailer Park from Cry Danger? http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg4/s...jpg&res=medium Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures |
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