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HISTORIC LOS ANGELES
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331 South Mariposa Avenue. PLEASE ALSO SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORIC LOS ANGELES, CLICK HERE. He house is located at 331 South Mariposa Avenue," reported the Los Angeles Times. When it was sold in 1921 by the family that built it 11 years before. Located at 331 South Mariposa Avenue. But where might it be now? Designated 431 before the city's annexation-related renumberings of 1912-13 altered it to 331, Overell's new. Termed "Elizabethan" by the Los Angeles Times—. The numb...
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HISTORIC LOS ANGELES
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PLEASE ALSO SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORIC LOS ANGELES, CLICK HERE. Eorge Kress, the undersung star house-mover of Los Angeles, was never shy when it came to new challenges. Major street widenings in the '20s had contributed to his business, and at the time the economics of real estate and construction made it feasible to move even very large houses to new locations miles away from their original sites. After the Depression affected his business along with the.
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ST. JAMES PARK Historic Los Angeles
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Set your GPS: the location of. PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO ST. JAMES PARK, CLICK HERE. Gates were placed approximately 225 feet to the east of the north-south St. James Park roadway leading from Adams; the east-west street was thereafter divided between the two developments, underscoring their rivalry for social renown. Illustrations: Historic Map Works. PLEASE SEND QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS TO. Text and selected artwork © 2015 Duncan Maginnis. Powered by Blogger.
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ST. JAMES PARK Historic Los Angeles
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1 St James Park. PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO ST. JAMES PARK, CLICK. Number 1 St. James Park, pictures of which remain elusive, only came by its address after it was built. While #9. Was originally addressed 2327 Park Grove Avenue, that house lay on lots 27 and 28 within the bounds of the original St. James Park tract; #1, on a lot measuring. 75 by 169 feet. At the southwest corner of West 23rd and Park Grove was, like the lot of #3. By the '90s—one of the most curious...
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ST. JAMES PARK Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. Los Angeles Herald,. December 3, 1888. Of September 4, 1887, on the subject: "Our readers will remember the beautiful St. James Park in London. It is the intention of the owners of the delightful square in our good city of the Queen of the Angeles to reproduce, under fair skies and more lofty surroundings, this chef d'oeuvre. Of European landscape beauty.". Early on, St. James Park was a frequent destination of tourist excursions. The lamps added a. Text and selected a...
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FREMONT PLACE Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO FREMONT PLACE, CLICK. Till at the south end of Fremont Place—specifically, at the northeast corner of Olympic Boulevard (once Country Club Drive) and what was originally referred to as Easterly Drive—is a house completed for Russian-born Samuel Markowitz in 1925. A permit to begin construction had been issued by. The Department of Buildings. Ran the large advertisement seen below on July 16, 1933. Background: Historic Map Works.
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FREMONT PLACE Historic Los Angeles
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PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES. FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO FREMONT PLACE, CLICK. The journal California Outlook. Covered the Progressive movement during the 1910s. Its issues. Were full of advertisements of businesses and professionals presumably supportive of the. Party line, and tributes to them. One with a view of James Shultz's lumber yard south. Of downtown appeared on May 25, 1912. Shultz sold the business soon after he. Used the yard's finest inventory of build 53 Fremont Place in 1918. The fashio...