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Originally Posted by Lorendoc
Here is a handsome (if you like giant pediments and Ionic columns of various sizes) apartment building. Small cards saying "rooms" are taped to some windows.
The label at Calisphere for this is: "Exterior view of a Colonial Revival-style apartment building at 94042 South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles, [s.d.]. That block of S Fig is somewhere off the coast of San Diego. (and the 94042 zip code is Mountain View, CA)
But the steep grade suggests Bunker Hill...
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Originally Posted by Sakhal Nakhash
According to the good folks over at Water and Power:
" (ca. 1889) View showing a Colonial Revival-style apartment building located on 6th Street west of South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles.
The main entrance is flanked by two massive columns, and a balcony can be seen over the front double doors. Two cement stairways lead to
covered walkways on the sides of the building, while another set of stairs leads to the front door. A thee-story rectangular building can be seen at right."
https://waterandpower.org/museum/Ear...s)_4_of_6.html
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My vote goes to this being a photo of 940-42 West 6th Street, in the block west of Figueroa. We may have gotten
94042 South Figueroa by
someone mixing up the streets and leaving out an en dash.
At right, we see the east wall of the three-story
Parodia Apartments at 944 West 6th.
Both buildings are on the
1906 Sanborn Map at the Library of Congress.
Both buildings were also damaged by fire on July 1, 1915, as this
Los Angeles Herald article describes (though incorrectly giving the address
of the Colonial Revival-style building as 640 instead of 940).
You can see both 940-42 and 944 West 6th just above the bottom center of
this west-facing 1929 panoramic view, immediately behind the
Rex Arms on the north side. The roof of 940-42 is different than in the older photo because of the 1915 fire damage, but the east wall of
944 looks the same in both photos.
Demolition permits for both 940-42 and 944 West 6th were issued in May 1932.
Thanks to
Lorendoc for posting the photo and to
Sakhal Nakhash for the crucial tip about 6th Street!