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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> CENTURY BEFORE THE CIVIC MINDSET of Los Angeles turned determinedly urban and vertical, there was the original four-block stretch of Wilshire Boulevard. At once a radical concept and the demesne of plutocrats, the nascent thoroughfare's initial incarnation between MacArthur and Lafayette parks reflected perfectly its progenitor, eccentric socialist millionaire Gaylord Wilshire, he of the luxuriant Van Dyke beard and knowing eyes. As the city suburbanized beyond its core, today undergoing a surprising rebirth, the trend was toward the southwest. The builders of large houses forsook the steep slopes and narrow lots of close-in </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">(and now vanished) </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">residential Bunker Hill for the horizontal stretches in the direction of the University of Southern California, established in 1880. To this day Americans are caught up with the idea of establishing their own fiefdoms, with manor house, however big or humble, with gardens and, of course, gates. With the trend toward the expanding West Adams district naturally being led by men with money, the residential future of Los Angeles seemed set. Into the vast expanse of barley fields and semi-desert wilderness limited only by the Pacific, Angelenos would find their roomy individual patches for a new, anti-Eastern way of living. And so it happened. With the establishment of </span><a href="http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspot.com/">St. James Park</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> (1887) and Chester Place (1899), the genteel die was cast: instant, fresh development, antithetical to the idea of gentility except in a place where everyone was new. The quality and scale of the development of even the more modest tracts surrounding the bon ton enclaves of the Adams District were high enough to give the impression of a God-ordained, has-always-been-here, will-always-be-here cityscape. Enter Mr. Wilshire to challenge any such complacency of West Adams mind.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Born in Cincinnati to rich parents in 1861, Wilshire seems refreshingly to have had no abiding sense of allegiance to haute bourgeois expectations. His ideas were his own. Neither a native Californian nor a particularly committed one—he would live in and out of the state for many periods after first arriving in Los Angeles in 1884—Wilshire never thought of a scheme he didn't implement. Over the course of his 66 years, he grew grapefruit, mined gold, and peddled bogus (if not to him) electrical health belts. He was a politician of carpetbagger stripe, running for Congress in California at least twice and then again in New York, for California attorney general, and for both the Canadian and English parliaments. He published magazines, <i>Wilshire's Monthly</i> among them, the most widely read socialist journal in the decade after the turn of the 20th century. All the while an active member of the über-haute-bougie California Club and the Los Angeles Country Club, he defied established residential fashion by developing a barley field not in the fashionable southwestern districts of the city, but in a direction more directly west of First and Main. Deliberately secluded on the far side of Westlake Park (renamed for General Douglas MacArthur in 1942), Wilshire caught in his development's net two big California Club cronies: militaristic fantasist General Harrison Gray Otis, the virulent civic booster who was also the virulently anti-unionist publisher of the <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> and Edwin Tobias Earl, whose invention of the climate-controlled rail car revolutionized California agriculture by introducing oranges and broccoli to the world. Otis, whose downtown newspaper office was "The Fortress," took pride of place, building his "Bivouac" at 2401 Wilshire in 1897; two years later Earl completed his house next door at 2425—like Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus in a mall, anchor tenants. It would take a couple of decades for West Adams in its turn to begin to feel cramped—the city's population well more than doubled in the 1920s and the resulting rise in land values prompted property owners to move on to Windsor Square, Hancock Park, Pasadena, and the wide-open Westside—but the district did finally lose favor as Los Angeles's "uptown" district. Unknowingly, it seems, Gaylord Wilshire had steered developing Los Angeles west toward a decade-distant bean field called Beverly Hills, toward which and around which prosperous Los Angeles would eventually settle. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The original foot of Wilshire Boulevard from today's MacArthur Park presented a scene<br />of just-born American architectural electicism: Along the north side of the street,<br />circa 1900, are General Harrison Gray Otis's Mission-style "Bivouac" at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/2401-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2401</a>,<br />Edwin T. Earl's Ernest Coxhead–designed English manor at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/2425-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2425</a>,<br />and the transitional Victorian–Colonial Revival pile<br />of Dr. Henderson Hayward at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2501-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2501</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Gaylord Wilshire's original eight square blocks are all that he was directly responsible for. His 1895 development of 35 acres west of Westlake Park with his San Francisco–based brother William Benton Wilshire included the donation to the city of Los Angeles of a 120-foot-wide strip of land for a bisecting boulevard, a donation dependent on the road being named for him and on the stipulation that no railroad or commercial trucking would be allowed. Such was the success of the small development, and of the allure to Americans of any name ending in "-shire," that the idea was seized upon and run with by other even more gobbling developers, all the way to the Pacific. The Wilshire cachet was also enough for property owners along Orange Street—</span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the Boulevard's gridmate directly in line across the park—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> ask that its name be changed to Wilshire Boulevard in 1924, their success resulting in Wilshire's extension east to Grand Avenue </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">that year. Finally, in 1934, a causeway through Westlake Park completed Los Angeles's 16-mile trans-city civic emblem, even if it </span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">didn't make for consistency</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">. As <i>Los Angeles Times</i> architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne has put it, "</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">No, rather than act as a perfect symbol of Los Angeles, Wilshire has operated as a proving ground for new ideas about architecture, commerce, transportation and urbanism in Southern California.... Wilshire is our boulevard of cold feet and second thoughts, the place where [the city] confronts its deep ambivalence about putting a low-rise, car-dominated and essentially suburban past behind it for good.... The result on today's Wilshire is a lurching, piecemeal utopianism that can take you from a world-famous piece of architecture to a weed-choked lot, from a realized ambition to an abandoned one, in the space of a few blocks." (See Hawthorne's excellent history of the boulevard <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/boulevards/la-ca-wilshire-boulevard-los-angeles-index-dto,0,4628574.htmlstory#axzz2wGq1DYl7">here</a>.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While adding an "L" in error, the 1910 Baist real estate atlas offers a colorful view of the original<br />eight square blocks of the Wilshire Boulevard Tract neatly placed between Sunset (now<br />Lafayette) and Westlake (now MacArthur) parks. While Gaylord Wilshire placed<br />permanent restrictions </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">against street </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">railways on the boulevard (and any<br />extension of it) when he donated the strip </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to the city, he was careful<br /> to gain transportation franchises running </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">along Sixth and Seventh<br /> streets </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">from downtown </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to his then-isolated subdivision.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While Gaylord Wilshire's own residential idea was not of a linear nature, linear is what the extension of his residential boulevard became. Although the fashionable larger "Wilshire District"—now dominated by Koreatown—developed rapidly, a Boulevard address only temporarily usurped the preeminence of one in West Adams. As its residential pattern developed linearly toward the true west of Los Angeles, toward quieter new districts such as Windsor Square and the independent Beverly Hills and ultimately to the City of Los Angeles's annexations beyond that city, Wilshire began to fail as a residential avenue. The Wilshire Boulevard of homes was of limited life, even if it became even more famous—much more famous—as a commercial thoroughfare.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Initially, at least, the limits of our discussion here are of the residential boulevard from Harrison Gray Otis's "Bivouac" once at the northwest corner of Park View Street, to Highland Avenue, and not the road's present full length east and west, parts of which, of course, are residential though in a starkly highrise vein. We have so far identified 95 houses (including some on the Boulevard but modestly addressed on side streets), and are in the process of telling the story of each. While a surprising number of Wilshire Boulevard houses have revealed themselves in pictures, even if obliquely, more of them than we had hoped for, there are some "holdouts"—just as, it might be said, there are actual holdouts of still-extant original dwellings, those to be revealed as the stories unfold.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Below you will find our pictorial inventory in which links lead to the story of each house, sequentially west from MacArthur Park. For a view forward to early post-residential Wilshire Boulevard, please see "Wilshire After Its Houses" <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/wilshire-after-its-houses-please-see.html">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2401 Wilshire Boulevard: The Harrison Gray Otis House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">655 Park View Street: The Henry Martz House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2425 Wilshire Boulevard: The Edwin Tobias Earl House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2501 Wilshire Boulevard: The Henderson Hayward House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2515 Wilshire Boulevard: The Effie Gardner Neustadt House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2520 Wilshire Boulevard: The Nicholas Earl Rice House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2607 Wilshire Boulevard: The Clinton N. Sterry / Isaac Milbank House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2619 Wilshire Boulevard: The Higgins / Rand / Verbeck House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2702 Wilshire Boulevard: The Bruns / Newmark House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2706 Wilshire Boulevard: The Eager / Stewart House</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">2711 Wilshire Boulevard: The Ella and George Ruddy House</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2715 Wilshire Boulevard: The Gardner / Woodward / Ryus House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2721 Wilshire Boulevard: The Gardner / Latz House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2902 Wilshire Boulevard: The Amos L. Burbank House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2914 Wilshire Boulevard: The William W. Mines House</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">2920 Wilshire Boulevard: The Edward R. Bradley House</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2932 Wilshire Boulevard: The Septimus Tuston Eldridge House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2942 Wilshire Boulevard: The Thomas E. Mitchell House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2966 Wilshire Boulevard: The John B. Berner House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2976 Wilshire Boulevard: The Charles R. Hadley House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3001 Wilshire Boulevard: The Elizabeth Nash House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3006 Wilshire Boulevard: The Goddard / Bliss House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3020 Wilshire Boulevard: The Israel Wellington Gardner House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">655 Wilshire Place: The Albert R. Maines / Emma Summers House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3033 Wilshire Boulevard: The William C. Price House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3043 Wilshire Boulevard: The Walter Harrison Fisher House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3077 Wilshire Boulevard: The Gilbert S. Wright House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3078 Wilshire Boulevard: The Sumner / Brown House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3087 Wilshire Boulevard: The Lowman / Blaisdell / Burnap House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3100 Wilshire Boulevard: The Reuben Shettler House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3101 Wilshire Boulevard: The Neustadt / Monnette / Bain House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3124 Wilshire Boulevard: The Clara Busch Wilson House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3143 Wilshire Boulevard: The Kornblum / Sharp House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3173 Wilshire Boulevard: The Brodtbeck / Wheeler House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3189 Wilshire Boulevard: The Ida Hancock Ross House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">641 South Vermont Avenue: The Joseph and Herman Burkhard House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3200 Wilshire Boulevard: The William Lacy / John G. Bullock House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">646 South New Hampshire Avenue: The Oscar Lawler House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3240 Wilshire Boulevard: The Louis M. Cole House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">647 South New Hampshire Avenue: The Byron Erkenbrecher House</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3250 Wilshire Boulevard: The Henry William O'Melveny House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">666 South Berendo Street: The Earle C. Anthony House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3301 Wilshire Boulevard: The Andrews / Eastman House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3325 Wilshire Boulevard: The Solomon Aronson House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3350 Wilshire Boulevard: The Marco Herman Hellman House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3440 Wilshire Boulevard: The Ruben S. Schmidt Houses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">647 South Mariposa Avenue: The Ekstrom / Hawes / Virgil House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3500 Wilshire Boulevard: The John J. Bergin House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3538 Wilshire Boulevard: The James P. Burns House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3555 Wilshire Boulevard: The Willis Douglas Longyear House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3558 Wilshire Boulevard: The Shelley H. Tolhurst / Sol Lesser House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3580 Wilshire Boulevard: The Charles M. O'Leary House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">646 South Kingsley Drive: The Adolph Ramish House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">647 South Kingsley Drive: The George Franklin Getty House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3644 Wilshire Boulevard: The Walters / Chaffey / Kellam House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">651 South Hobart Boulevard: The Andrew Getty / James A. Talbot House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3677 Wilshire Boulevard: The Robert H. Edwards House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3828 Wilshire Boulevard: The Fred Eaton / Ruth Roland House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3834 Wilshire Boulevard: The Kloeb / Pauly / Gelder House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3840 Wilshire Boulevard: The Rice / Escallier / Eisenhauer / Barton House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3846 Wilshire Boulevard: The Hilda B. Jenkins House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3852 Wilshire Boulevard: The Gernert / Schulze / Jones House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3920 Wilshire Boulevard: The Stanbery / MacDonald House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3932 Wilshire Boulevard: The Wendall H. Sutch House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">646 South Gramercy Place: The Harrington / Tanguay / Sankey House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">3938 Wilshire Boulevard: The Watson G. Terry House</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3944 Wilshire Boulevard: The Benton O. Johnson House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">3950 Wilshire Boulevard: The Harley E. Riggins House</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3968 Wilshire Boulevard: The Schlank / Yorba / Holland House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3974 Wilshire Boulevard: The Frank Borzage House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3986 Wilshire Boulevard: The Leon E. Kauffman House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">645 South Wilton Place</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">4011 Wilshire Boulevard</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">4016 Wilshire Boulevard: The Elmer James Neville House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">4032 Wilshire Boulevard: The Blyth / Keith House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">4037 Wilshire Boulevard: The Akin / Wagner House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">4040 Wilshire Boulevard: The Woods R. Woolwine House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">4062 Wilshire Boulevard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">641 South Irving Boulevard: The Jenkins / Getty / Desmond House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">700 South Plymouth Boulevard: The Robert A. Copple House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">4444 Wilshire Boulevard: The Grantland Seaton Long House</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />John P. Krempel designed The Bivouac for Harrison Gray Otis;<br />when completed, details of the actual house differed somewhat from<br />those in a rendering that appeared in the <i>Times</i> on October 15, 1897. The<br />entrance porch gained a portico; balcony above it was revised and the<br />single quatrefoil above that became two smaller ones to either side.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Views of the Harrison Gray Otis house at the foot of Gaylord Wilshire's<br />original boulevard, circa 1900. The carriage house is seen above; Edwin T. Earl's<br />house at <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/2425-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2425 Wilshire</a> is seen next door to the west below. While his house is certainly<br /> attractive, one might not have expected quite so fussy a design to have pleased the<br />blustery General. The side bays with large picture windows serve to disguise<br />the actual size of the house. Wilshire Boulevard is yet to be paved.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">On the first visit of an American president to California,</span> William McKinley spent the night of<br />May 8, 1901—four months before he was assassinated in Buffalo—at The Bivouac. He</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">old Ohio friend Homer Laughlin at <a href="https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2011/04/666-west-adams-street-please-also-see.html">666 West Adams Street</a>. The view<br />above is of 2401's east end from the edge of Westlake Park.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A view of the front portico east toward Westlake Park reveals</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> delicate detailing of the Otis house,</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Rare interior views of the Bivouac: Above, the entrance hall;<br />below, the upstairs landing. As some children would later hang model airplanes<br />from their bedroom ceilings, the General chose to hang guns.</span></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> time that most of</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> the rest of old residential Wilshire</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Boulevard</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> had</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> been</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Ever the poseur: A statue of Harrison Gray Otis as he imagined himself as The General was<br />placed at the then eastern foot of Wilshire Boulevard in Westlake-now-MacArthur Park<br />on August 3, 1920. (It was later moved to a spot just inside the park.) Sculpted by</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span>enry Martz is described, when he's described, as owning a great deal of Los Angeles real estate; judging by the little that can be found about his life, it seems that he went about his business quietly, largely avoiding the trappings and clubs of the usual L.A. mover and shaker of his era. Born in Detroit on May 12, 1850, Martz grew up to pursue the same trade as his father, a carpenter. The son was soon referred to in census and voter records as a builder, a skill he was to bring to Los Angeles with his bride, Elizabeth, soon after her immigration from Germany in 1880. By the end of the decade the couple and their two children were living on West Seventh Street in a house that, according to some accounts, was expanded after several years to provide income property by becoming the charming and surprisingly long-lasting Martz Flats.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Flats were described by one writer as having "a façade of Regency inspiration, maintained by the delicate details included in the formula for Classical Revival...[with] a series of recessed balconies, Palladian windows, and shallow pediments supported by pilasters." The same writer (circa 1962) maintained that it was built in 1898 and designed by Julius W. Krause (a contributing architect of the famous red sandstone Los Angeles County courthouse of 1888), who is known to have done other downtown work for Martz. At one point occupying nearly half the block bounded by Flower, Hope, Seventh, and Eighth streets, parts were demolished beginning in 1920. Somehow, though, much of it was intact, if down at the heels, as late as 1965, when the Martz family sold it. The parking lot it became is today the site of the Sheraton Los Angeles and Macy's.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Most of the mentions of Henry Martz are in tiny type in newspaper coverage of real estate transfers; there were many of those, but few to indicate his own domestic arrangements—unlike many real estate men, he didn't move often himself. We do know that he stayed on Seventh Street even as downtown Los Angeles boomed around him commercially, not leaving for the suburbs until 1904. When he did, he hired the best of architects, the esteemed John Parkinson, and built without modesty, except perhaps in terms of how he addressed his new house—what could have been 2400 Wilshire Boulevard became 655 Park View Street</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">. Rising on a prime lot at the original foot of the boulevard but with its northerly side facing Harrison Gray Otis's house across the way, 655 outdid its neighbors in scale and in taking advantage of the view east across Westlake Park toward downtown. With a lovely cool front porch and a glassed-in third-floor tower room on its northeast corner, along with softening delicate Moorish details and a tile roof, the house appeared to be built for the ages—along with all the other substantial houses, apartment buildings, and hotels going up around the park, one can only imagine how lovely Los Angeles must have once been. But Henry Martz allowed himself his one great indulgence too late, it seems. He was there not much longer than a year before he died on November 15, 1905. His widow and Regina, now 26, and August, 24, remained in the house, mother and son continuing to run the family real estate interests for decades to come. August and Regina were still there in 1930, but 655's days were numbered. The neighborhood was still as good as any in town, still very grand, but a major change to Westlake Park would spell the end of the district's tranquility. Up to 1934, Wilshire was interrupted by the square, forcing east-west traffic around it to bypass the Martz corner. That year, the boulevard was driven through the park to create a direct connection from downtown to the Pacific. The traffic at the north side of 655 increased exponentially. While the house appears to have been ideally suited to become a consulate or club, it was gone soon after the Department of Building and Safety issued a demolition permit on February 23, 1938. Multistory buildings, some residential, some commercial, were better suited to the new transportation possibilities of Wilshire Boulevard, well on its way to becoming the new, linear business corridor of Los Angeles.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A 2015 view of the American Cement Building from south of Wilshire includes at right the façade of</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/2401-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">1957 Otis Art Institute</a> across the boulevard, now an elementary school;looming above it</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">is the MacArthur, </span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">a special-events venue built in 1925 as the B.P.O.E.'s Lodge No. 99.</span></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Illustrations: Private Collection; <a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/">USCDL</a>; <a href="http://lapl.org/">LAPL</a>; <a href="http://latimes.com/">LAT</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603450940245899858.post-16283145075434144172015-08-01T14:37:00.001-07:002021-05-18T04:21:10.445-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">2425 Wilshire Boulevard</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://berkeleysquarelosangeles.com/">BERKELEY SQUARE</a> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/">ADAMS BOULEVARD</a></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/">WINDSOR SQUARE</a></span><br />
<a href="http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspot.com/">ST. JAMES PARK</a> <a href="http://fremontplace.blogspot.com/">FREMONT PLACE</a> <a href="https://hancockparklosangeles.blogspot.com/">HANCOCK PARK</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://westmorelandplacelosangeles.blogspot.com/">WESTMORELAND PLACE</a></span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">AN INTRODUCTION TO WILSHIRE BOULEVARD IS </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span>dwin Tobias Earl was born on a Sacramento Valley fruit ranch in 1858, and it was his hands-on understanding of California's agricultural bounty that contributed to the state's fame as an earthly paradise. Entering the shipping business at age 18, he looked for ways to market California citrus successfully as far as the East Coast and beyond. When the transcontinental railroads balked at building his invention of a combination ventilator-refrigerator car that could safely convey delicate produce through cross-country vagaries of climate, he began to manufacture it himself, eventually investing $2,000,000 in the venture. In 1897, with some of the enormous profits he realized, Earl hired East Sussex–born Ernest A. Coxhead to design one of the most artistic and distinctive houses ever built on Wilshire Boulevard. Coxhead, today associated more with the Bay Area, had arrived in Los Angeles in 1886, specializing in ecclesiastical commissions </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">in his early California years</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">. (One of his rare Southland residences remains at <a href="http://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2011/02/508-west-adams-boulevard-please-also.html">127 East Adams Boulevard</a>.) Contrived in the architect's signature shingle style to artfully suggest rusticity despite its size, a fire causing extensive damage as it neared completion in the summer of 1898 sent Coxhead back to the drawing board. A revised scheme now incorporated clinker brick walls; it was finished in 1899 and stood at the northeast corner of Carondelet Street </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">in Gaylord Wilshire's original subdivision </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">for many years, until, ironically, an art school demolished it. The</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Otis Art Institute (today the Otis College of Art and Design), having occupied Harrison Gray Otis's old house next door at </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/2401-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2401 Wilshire</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> since after the General's death in 1917, acquired 2425 in 1938; both houses were gone by the fall of 1957.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Only occasionally does one run across a native Californian among the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">builders of significant early-20th-century Los Angeles houses. While all of them were by and </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">large men of significant entrepreneurial talents, few seem to have </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">ever combined the imagination to see not only opportunity but to </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">actually invent three-dimensional ways to further exploit it. Perhaps behind it was the drive of Edwin's </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">father Josiah; like many men drawn west by the Gold </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Rush, the elder Mr. Earl realized after arrival that the chance to make a </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">fortune lay more in fields ancillary to panning, or in making the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">most of other natural riches there for the taking in California, riches beyond </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the imagination of Easterners who were not present to see the bounty for themselves. Josiah </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">moved around the state as a freight hauler, later settling near Red </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Bluff to raise fruit and deal in lumber. After marrying another</span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Ohio </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">native who'd come west in 1852, two sons were born, the eldest, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Edwin Tobias, at Antelope in Sacramento County on May 30, 1853. Before long, Josiah moved the family </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to Inyo County on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, continuing fruit farming while swapping lumber sales for </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">silver prospecting. Brought to their knees by an earthquake in 1872, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the Earls moved to Oakland, Josiah becoming a merchant and Edwin a </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">student. Leaving high school prepared by the example of his father </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">and with his own particular itch to succeed, Edwin, according to the estimable</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> and intelligent blog </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://carboncanyonchronicle.blogspot.com/"><i>Carbon Canyon Chronicle</i></a>, "became one of the earliest </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">forwarding merchants to send oranges from Southern California on the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">newly completed direct transcontinental railroad (the Atchison, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Topeka and Santa Fe route, specifically), with the first</span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">shipment </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">leaving from the orange boom town of Riverside in early 1886. The </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">following year, he created the Earl Fruit Company to manage the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">handling of oranges for transport."</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The rest of the story could not be better told than by the <i>Carbon </i></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>Canyon Chronicle</i>, which continues: </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">"There was, however, an important inhibitor to the success of orange </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">exports long distance: the tendency of the fruit to either freeze </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">with existing ventilated box cars or to be lacking in ventilation in </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">all-refrigerated cars. Earl's solution, developed in 1890, when he </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">was but 32 years old, was the C.F.X. ventilator-refrigerator car, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">used by the Continental Fruit Express company, which Earl formed to </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">handle...shipments by the specific car he developed....</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> After a decade, Earl was </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">bought out by Chicago's mighty food-producing giant, Armour and </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Company, for some $2.5 million.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>"Earl almost immediately took some of his fortune and bought the </i>Los</span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Angeles Express,<i> a newspaper of about 30 years' operation in the </i></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-style: italic;">city, and he joined the ranks of powerful publishers...like </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler of the </i>Times<i> and William </i></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>Randolph Hearst of the </i>Examiner<i> (later the </i>Herald-Examiner)<i>."</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The parties at 2425 Wilshire were never "rag tag and bobtail"</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> affairs,</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> nor were the neighbors riffraff. Even</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> between his</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">wives,</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Edwin T.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Earl entertained the</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> biggest</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> names in</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2607-wilshire-boulevard.html">2607</a>,</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> the</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Otises</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> next</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> door at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/2401-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2401</a>. Before</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Earl's</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><i>Express </i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">began</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> to challenge</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Otis's</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> <i>T</i></span><i>imes, </i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the latter</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> paper</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> mentioned</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">E. T. in a</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">positive</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> light, such</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> a</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">s</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Entering the newspaper business was bound to rankle Earl's next-door </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">neighbor, Harrison Gray Otis of <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/2401-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2401</a>. As the 1900s unwound, the new </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">publisher's Good Government ("goo-goo") zeal caused his print rival to vituperate </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">endlessly as the editors of the <i>Express</i> pushed for political reform. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Revealing more of his own megalomaniacal tendencies than any </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">particular crimes of Earl's, the famously childish Otis neglected no chance to describe the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">upstart negatively. E. T. was by turns "ungrateful," "spiteful," a "fake reformer," a "vulture," and even "afflicted with distress of the mind." Referring to "E. Toopius Earl," the <i>Express</i> itself was described by the <i>Times</i> as a "rag tag and bobtail" enterprise. In 1909, the <i>Christian Science Monitor,</i> among other publications less dyspeptic than the <i>Times,</i> shed praise on Earl for his successful campaign against municipal corruption. Otis, who died in July 1917, would not give up his petty sniping even from the grave; on the following November 27, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">just weeks before Earl died,</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> a <i>Times</i></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> editorial called Earl a "skunk" and compared him to the German kaiser.</span></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And yet Otis's sputtering appears to have been at least somewhat for show, and, no doubt, to sell newspapers. The <i>Chinatown</i> facets of the history of Los Angeles came together with Earl's partnership in land acquisitions, most notably in the San Fernando Valley—with none other than Harrison Gray Otis, among others. Per the <i>Carbon Canyon Chronicle</i>, Earl and Otis joined "...Moses Sherman (Sherman Oaks developer), Leslie Brand (Title Guaranty and Trust Company executive and Glendale's Brand Library namesake), and railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington...in the San Fernando Mission Land Company, incorporated in 1905...which benefited by the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct eight years later. It was widely claimed that, because Sherman was a member of the Los Angeles Board of Water Commissioners, there was inside information he passed on to his associates so they could buy the land cheap[ly] before word of the aqueduct project became public and sell dear for a $5 million profit."</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />The Earl house, masonry edition, seen newly completed<br />behind recently planted parkways of nascent Wilshire Boulevard;<br />the house was suburban Los Angeles at its finest, modern despite Coxhead's<br />English-manor style. Modernity had yet to find its way inside California houses in what<br />was, in fact, still the Victorian era. Before what seems almost the whole point of California<br />was finally discovered, interiors were dark and gloomy places, formidable bunkers into<br />which little sunlight seemed to penetrate. And certainly the heavy-handed<br />scrollwork in the <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">parlor of 2425 </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">counteracted any sense of lightness.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There was also the tiny fact that much of the Los Angeles press was owned by men in on the deal—it was a simple matter for editors to scare Angelenos into believing that without the aqueduct, tumbleweeds would soon dance in the streets. Edwin T. Earl may have been a champion of civic reform, but Gilded Age prerogatives were still in full bloom. Cronyism and back-room deals ruled the city even if the public could be made to believe that, for example, Earl and Otis were at odds. They were very much next-door neighbors.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">During the years of at least partially mock discord, the <i>Times</i> rarely mentioned E. T. Earl in a positive light, even ignoring him in its voluminous coverage of Society. The ladies, of course, were not to bother themselves with the administration of power, except among their fellow matrons. The second Mrs. Earl was mentioned frequently as hostess at 2425 of endless luncheons, bridge parties, and other entertainments. The distaff side's right to vote came precociously in California in 1911, in part because of Earl's championing of Progressive thought; it wasn't until 1920 that women gained the right to vote nationally, signaling the lessening of the sort of male cronyism typified by both Otis and Earl, whatever the political differences or self dramatization involved.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Sorting out the three Emilys in Edwin's personal life is a tricky business. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Edwin had married the first, née Runyon (born in California in August 1864 to a father who was a native of Kentucky), in 1884. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The first Mrs. Earl seems to have been uninterested in the more intimate aspects of marriage, with the result being that after 16 years of frustration Edwin was able to obtain a divorce, charging Emily #1 with cruelty and desertion—these grounds often referring to a wife's sexual standoffishness—not long after they moved into 2425. There was next to no press mention of the split, though on February 15, 1901, the </span><i>Herald,</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> citing a possible reason for Earl's sale of his interests to Armour, reported that "the generally accepted opinion is that Earl wishes to have no further business troubles for some time, owing to his recent divorce suit." Enter the second Emily, a Louisvillian 10 years her predecessor's junior, who was spending the winter of 1901 in Los Angeles with her sister, Mrs. West Hughes </span><span face="verdana, sans-serif">(née Cora Jarvis).</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> The wider orbit of the very social Dr. and Mrs. Hughes would have included the Earls...and so ensued the marriage of Edwin and </span><span face="verdana, sans-serif">27-year-old</span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Emily Jarvis on April 30, 1902, at the Hughes house on the corner of Flower and 23rd streets. Edwin turned 51 the year the couple's first child, William Jarvis, was born in 1904. T</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">he family then grew rapidly, with three boys and Emily #3 born between 1904 and 1908. Rather than becoming simply a ponderous monument to success, 2425 would now become a fascinating house for four young children to grow up in, at least until the 1920s.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Emily Earl remained at 2425 Wilshire for a couple of years while the younger two of her four children finished high school. Now the owner of the <i>Express,</i> however, and ever the socialite, she was not given to staying at home. On July 27, 1921, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">at St. John's on Adams Street, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">she remarried. The groom was Washington banker William Eric Fowler; that fall, the family, including Jarvis, E. T. Jr., Emily, and Chaffee Earl, moved east, intending to maintain 2425 as a summer residence. While some family members maintained the house at least as a voting address, it seems to have been </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">occupied principally by caretakers into the middle '30s, with at least one period during which it was given over to commercial enterprises. Piedad Yorba Sowl's famous Casa Verdugo restaurant, late of Glendale, spent at least the first few years of the decade in the house; by 1936 it housed doctors and dentists and an X-ray laboratory. The Los Angeles Art Association met at 2425 in the '40s. By now, the house was no doubt a bear to maintain, and the Earls were well out of it, especially with fashion having long since moved out to the newer western Los Angeles suburbs, Beverly Hills, and Pasadena.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Even if the neighborhood had been more stable, none of the Earl children seems to have had their father's drive—though he may have indeed been a tough act to follow—or Edwin's interest in maintaining 2425 as a family seat, which, at any rate, is usually more of a progenitor's priority. A sense of entitlement to a wider world may have shadowed the adulthoods of the younger Earls. Legal wrangling over Emily Fowler's estate continued for years. Invariably described as socialites and as little else, the Earl children managed to spend well and rack up quite a few marriages and divorces among themselves. Chaffee, the youngest, kept racehorses and, at 21, married a waitress, before long spending a little time in jail for failing to pay alimony; he later married and divorced a second time. "Pasadena socialite" Emily had at least two husbands, marrying her second, the actor Paul Gregory, in 1933 and divorcing him in 1940. Jarvis, who sold off some Earl properties for development, racked up a couple of wives, as did Earl Jr. In truth, the arc of the second-generations Earls was little different from many families whose fortunes derived from the industrial growth of late-19th-century America: money, opportunity, pleasure, glamour, with crashes along the way.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">fter moving to Los Angeles from Philadelphia in 1895, Dr. Henderson Hayward did what many similarly situated contemporaries did on arrival in California: He turned from his original profession to buying, selling, and improving property. For his own residence he sought out the original Wilshire Boulevard tract, Gaylord Wilshire's new suburban development west of downtown. His story of divorce, and a later intrafamily lawsuit played out loudly in newspapers over several years, might have pushed one to consider seeking another physician if he had still been in practice, but scandal seems not to have damaged unduly the doctor's standing among fellow Los Angeles muckety-mucks. As they usually did, the titans circled their wagons when a lot of money commingled in business deals was at stake. Remarrying two weeks after divorcing his first wife in April 1897, Dr. Henderson Hayward was putting the finishing touches on 2501 Wilshire, at the northwest corner of Carondelet Street, six months later. Into his new transitional Colonial Revival house, with a tastefully low-scale Victorian turret and detailing redolent of the Eastern Seaboard, he would move with wife Number 2; they would have his 12th child in 1898.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Born in York County, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1844, Henderson Hayward remained close to home until leaving to join the Union during the Civil War. The casualties he encountered in his service as a hospital steward didn't dissuade him from pursuing what had also been his father's path; after Appomattox he determined to secure a medical degree, which he did, from Georgetown, in 1869. He was settled in Chadds Ford, west of Philadelphia, by 1871. Little seems to have been recorded about Hayward's daily life as a physician during the next 20 years, though he was no layabout when not in his surgery. There was his part in the production of his and Roberta Piggott Hayward's 11 children, one of whom died as a young child and another at age 10,</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> according to some sources, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">and there were his political activities. Though hardly alone, Hayward seems in retrospect to have been a poster boy for the Gilded Age. In addition to the prerogatives he claimed in the bedroom, Hayward was evidently willing to buy power as well, or at least to be suspected of bribery. He was arrested in July 1890 on charges of having arranged payola to swing the outcome of a Republican Congressional primary election to his liking. Though found not guilty by the courts, he was ordered to pay half the cost of the trial, suggesting that there had been some convincing evidence. But nevermind. Hayward's biographies—hagiographies, rather—in various </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who's Who</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">s of the era typified the general feelings toward power brokers. Malfeasance was ignored if not admired. And there were always new worlds to conquer among men who enjoyed tangoing with power. For Hayward, that meant California.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While the man seemed the very definition of robust, some accounts have Henderson Hayward looking to a sunnier venue for reasons of health. Whatever the reason, too cold climatically or too hot politically, the doctor decided to give up medicine and explore West Coast possibilities. After a few trips to Los Angeles, he was sold. Even before moving permanently, he began buying property, including two lots in the Hammel & Denker Tract at Main and Ninth streets in May 1895, though deals were not always made without some of his characteristic litigation. Whether or not Roberta was interested in relocating is open to interpretation. She doesn't appear to have accompanied her husband on any of his exploratory trips to California, but she does appear to have finally moved with the Hayward children, the oldest of whom, Laura, was 17. Later in 1895, the family took a house at 1117 West 21st Street; Henderson plunged into his newest pursuits with gusto, his health most definitely restored, by becoming a principal in the first of several oil ventures in which he would invest to great success. Before he expanded his commercial interests, however, there was some personal business to attend to. Roberta was not happy, or Henderson was unhappy with her, perhaps lusting after an entirely new life, including a new wife. It appears in any case that it was Hayward who filed for divorce on grounds termed variously "incompatibility of temper" and "desertion and extreme cruelty" (which was sometimes a euphemism for denying a husband his connubial rights), perhaps understandable in a woman who'd given birth to at least 11 children and who seemed loathe to give into one more whim of her husband—relocation was probably as unappealing as the thought of another child. It seems that Roberta may have already returned to Philadelphia </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">(i.e., deserted him)</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> with the younger children. Waiting in the wings with a trousseau was one Julia Dibble.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Hayward's 12th child, little Julia, was born in September 1898. The older of his children may have lived in a blended family at 2501 at various times over the next decade, as Julia played cards and hung out with her lady friends at the Ebell and Friday Morning clubs. Henderson continued to wheel and deal, in 1901 securing </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">among other prizes, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">singularly or as one of a party of mysterious "eastern interests," the southwest corner of Spring and Sixth streets from the Ralphs Brothers, on which stood their first grocery store opened nearly 30 years before. Replacing the store in due course would be another of Hayward's babies and what remains today as his primary legacy to his adopted hometown.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Meanwhile, back at 2501 Wilshire Boulevard, there was much commotion. As Henderson pursued deals, Julia entertained, and little Julia grew up, family matters took on a sustained air of melodrama as the scandal of a prodigal son unfolded. It seems that while most if not all of Henderson and Roberta's children lived with or near her in Philadelphia after the divorce, they desired to maintain ties to their father, as will happen when dad is a moneybags. By 1913, the youngest, 26-year-old James Lester Hayward, was "well known to the bright-lights habitues of a dozen large cities" in the <i>Times</i>'s description and, among his other charming attributes, rumored to be the father of illegitimate children. From news reports one gets the impression that Lester would be just the sort of mess that would get himself caught in the web of an enterprising, not to say delusional, spiderwoman. It seems that the self-styled Mrs. Louise Russell Alexander Nicholson Hayes, a fortyish woman who'd made something of a career of attempts to gain control of other people's advantages, had managed to get Lester to a Baltimore altar in August 1913 after buying his discharge from the Army. A few years earlier the newest Mrs. Hayward had sued her sister, named as executrix of their mother's estate, for fiduciary control; she also appears to have enjoyed adding the names of illustrious relatives </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to her own, willy nilly</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">, one real (her grandfather, Columbus Alexander, around whose money there was much family disputation), another imagined, her claim to Rear Admiral </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Reginald F. Nicholson being a relationship</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> publicly and adamantly denied by his family in <i>The Washington Post</i>. At any rate, a few months after the wedding, with funds running low—Lester had of course boasted of riches not actually his own—the couple struck out for Los Angeles, where resided a new father-in-law who may have been Louise's target all along. Strangely, nine days after arrival, Lester pulled a disappearing act. According to the lawsuit filed </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">on December 15 </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">by drama queen Louise </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">against Lester's father and two of his siblings, the family had conspired to fund her husband's departure from town without her. The Haywards had treated her dreadfully, not even deigning to meet their new daughter-in-law, and leaving her "prostrated with grief" and penniless in her hotel. Louise thought $100,000 in "heart balm" would be just compensation for her distress. On July 3, 1914, she settled for $25,000, but interrupting a story that </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">was far from over was deeper sadness at 2501 Wilshire.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The 27-year-old Hayward house never had an owner outside of the family, it having been left to little Julia, who in 1920 had married Charles Sharp Thomas, a man who would go on to become Eisenhower's Secretary of the Navy, president of T.W.A., and head of the Irvine Company. In the fall of 1922, the Thomases moved into a house designed for them by Gene Verge—said to have been a wedding present from her father—at 627 South Carondelet, just behind 2501 on part of the Hayward property that held its carriage barn. Given that the commercializing neighborhood was likely not at all where the Thomases might have preferred to live, it seems that a condition of Hayward's gift of a house may have been that it be built next door to his; a</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">fter her father's estate matters were settled three years later, the Thomases decided to capitalize on their entire, wildly appreciated Wilshire corner, demolishing 2501 and in 1926 moving its barn and their own four-year-old house to their present location at 135 North Norton Avenue.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In late 1925, the Thomases hired no less than Stiles O. Clements to design the Hayward Building, a lovely jewel box with </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Churrigueresque detail</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> that stands on the Wilshire property to this day. It originally housed dance studios, where taught, so legend has it, Rita Hayworth's father. Also in the building was the Vagabond theater, now the Hayworth, and, for many years, the restaurant La Fonda. If the houses of Wilshire Boulevard had to fall, their 1920s and '30s successors, just the sort of humanly scaled buildings that the new 2501 typified, were welcome. Many fortunately do survive, but in another 20 years from the first and best examples, tall concrete and glass behemoths began to replace them. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Motorized, forward-looking Los Angeles was never going to stand still, not even for beauty or charm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">N</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ative Missourian Louis C. Neustadt married flyball-governor heiress Effie Gardner of Quincy, Illinois, on Halloween in 1878; their daughter Edith was born the next year and their son, Robert Gardner Neustadt, on the Fourth of July, 1885. Upon his marriage Louis became associated with his father-in-law, Robert W. Gardner, who had made a fortune developing an improved type of engine regulator and other equipment needed by the emerging oil- and gas-producing industries. While </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Neustadt was still serving as secretary and treasurer of</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the Gardner Governor Company at the time of his death in 1896, it appears that his true calling was 1,600 miles to the west in Los Angeles. Though maintaining a household in Quincy, the Neustadts began to establish at least a wintertime presence in Southern California, Mr. Neustadt becoming associated with John A. Pirtle in real estate and securities speculation in L.A. as early as April 1889. Despite the economic upheavals of the '90s, the rise of the oil industry had a positive effect on the Neustadts' investment purse. Following Louis's demise, Effie began to transition to full-time life on the West Coast, fueled by her share of the proceeds of her family's business in Quincy and her husband's dealings in L.A. real estate, to which Mrs. Neustadt seems to have paid particular attention. Maintaining a series of seasonal local households, including 1217 West 23rd Street followed by 823 South Bonnie Brae, Effie gained entrée into the hoity-toitiest houses in town. Once she established herself and her children in Los Angeles permanently, the widow Neustadt chose a boulevard meant, before its later commercialization, to rival West Adams Street in domestic opulence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <i>Los Angeles Times</i> reported o</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n July 5, 1903, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that Caroline Bumiller Hickey had just sold Effie an unimproved 150-by-150-foot lot at the northeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Coronado Street. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The eager new owner had engaged </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Myron Hunt—already in demand during his first year in the city—to design an 11-room house for her on the east half of the lot, to be addressed 2515 Wilshire Boulevard. As described by the <i>Times</i>, the plan was for a dwelling "</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in an architectural style typical of the Elizabethan." </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While its interior arrangements were projected to be</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "thoroughly modern," heavy beams as a design feature suggest a dark interior—Southern Californians, especially those newly arrived from the Midwest and East, were slow to discover the light and air that lay outside their doors. Which is not to say that 2515 itself would ever give up its place in the sun—it hasn't, as we shall see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mrs. E. M. Neustadt, as Effie would be styled in accounts of her real estate and social activities, moved into 2515 with Edith and the high-spirited Robert in 1904. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Real estate speculation by nature seems to breed restlessness if not recklessness—or is it just having a lot of money? Robert appears to have been hauled into court on several occasions on charges of reckless driving, usually defending himself arrogantly; but then he was barely 20, spoiled, and could afford a powerful machine (in later years it would be reckless polo and marriage-management, although these were beyond his tenure on Wilshire Boulevard).</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both Edith and Robert were married while still living at 2515, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Edith in San Francisco in October 1904 to stock-and-bond broker Luther Herbert Green, brother of Beverly Hills developer Burton E. Green. The couple settled in Los Angeles at <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/2525-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2525 Wilshire</a>, which Effie built next to her own house on half of her original lot. The Greens had two children, Effie and Robert. Edith died in 1908; Luther would be murdered in 1927 on the lawn of his house at 1053 South Bonnie Brae Street 1927 by gangsters seeking the $10,000 stash of prewar booze he kept in his cellar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for Robert Neustadt, the timeline is confusing, if one considers that he was somehow, before online education, also </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">matriculating 3,000 miles away at Princeton (class of 1908, per his 1934 <i>New York Times</i> obituary). According to other records, he was at the same time getting</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> his professional feet wet </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in partnership with Charles E. Richards in</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the Pacific Cement Waterproofing Company in Los Angeles, which by 1907 had become the Richards-Neustadt Construction Company. Despite Robert's young age, he seems to have done well with his mother's money—t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">here were a number of lots in fashionable precincts bought by Effie, improved by Robert, and sold to their mutual benefit.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> O</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n March 14, 1907, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">21-year-old Robert married </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the apparently geographically-named </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Altadena Green (not known to have had a twin named Pasadena and apparently no relation to her new brother-in-law). The ceremony was </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">held at 2515 rather than in his bride's hometown of Pasadena due to the recent ill health of the groom's mother. Commensurate with her means, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Effie gave the couple a lot a half-mile to the west on Wilshire, throwing in the funds for Myron Hunt, now partnered with Elmer Grey, to design a house on it as a wedding present. This was to</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> become <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/05/3101-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">3101 Wilshire Boulevard</a>.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps just an exercise in a bold new mode, consummate planner and builder Effie Neustadt<br />had Hunt & Grey design <a href="https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2015/01/2443-south-western-avenue-please-also.html">2445 South Western Avenue</a>, once standing prominently at the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Five years in one house was an eternity to Effie Neustadt. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As her 1914 <i>Los Angeles Times </i>obituary has it, "Her passion was the building of splendid homes. Each of these she would occupy for a time and then build another, still finer, in some other part of her extensive real estate holdings." </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After deciding to leave 2515 Wilshire in 1908, Effie would have Myron Hunt build her an altogether different and much, much bigger house than those he'd designed for her on Wilshire Boulevard. Set high above terraced gardens, a grand, symmetrical (and now long-gone) </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">petit trianon</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-ish house—in vogue with the Los Angeles rich of the period—</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rose at the northwest corner of Adams Street and Western Avenue; she would sell it to music dealer J. T. Fitzgerald just a year later. It seems that Effie, though still just in her 50s, was now confined to a wheelchair and in need of ramps. After selling <a href="https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2015/01/2443-south-western-avenue-please-also.html">2445 South Western Avenue</a> to Fitzgerald, she built a house at 1050 East Mariposa Street in Altadena, reportedly built to accommodate</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the rolling Effie. While she had built her first house in Los Angeles with Myron Hunt as her architect, and had used him again, after his partnering with Elmer Grey, for Robert's Wilshire Boulevard house and then for Western Avenue, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">after the architects dissolved their partnership late in 1909 </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">she went with Grey alone for her Altadena house, which still stands. According to her obituary, at the time of her death on July 17, 1914, she had just completed "the fourth, most magnificent of them all" on five acres in the Oak Knoll section of Pasadena. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The plan that evolved was for Effie and her son and daughter-in-law to move together to the new house in Altadena. Robert and Altadena sold 3101 Wilshire in April 1909; that same month, Luther H. Green, act</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ing as broker, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sold 2525 on the west half of his mother-in-law's original Wilshire lot to Timothy Wilfred Coakley, a well-known though apparently mentally unstable Boston attorney. Manufacturer William Edward Hampton would soon acquire 2515. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A man of that certain postbellum American drive, William E. Hampton, born on August 8, 1852, began his career as a teenager in central Illinois, eventually becoming a highly successful dry-goods merchant. He was much less successful in his attempt to retire early to the Pacific Coast in 1886. Having grown restless after a few years spent traveling, he settled in San Francisco and restarted his career in a new direction. He built a plant in his new hometown to manufacture "non-shrinking" wooden water tanks and those used in the mining industry. Eventually, Hampton established branches up and down the West Coast, including one in Los Angeles, to which he moved in 1898. Adding to a reputation that would have him later called a "lumber king," Hampton extended his manufacturing activities by organizing the highly successful Pacific Planing Mill Company; there seems to have been little that the man failed at save his attempt to retire at an early age. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition to attending to his businesses, Hampton found time to hold directorships in at least a half-dozen other enterprises, including several banks. He was also active in civic organizations, among them the Special Harbor Committee charged with exploring the development of the port of Los Angeles in anticipation of the opening of the Panama Canal. As a mover and shaker, Hampton was naturally elected a member of the top clubs of the muckety-muck class, including the California, Jonathan, and Los Angeles Country clubs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hampton was not without a wife during the years of building. He'd married an Illinois girl, Frances Wilhoit, in 1880. The couple seems to have had no children; Frances ran a quiet household on Wilshire Boulevard, entertaining at home with the occasional "bridge-tea" both before and after her husband's death in 1928. Thirty-three years after moving into 2515, Frances died there on January 3, 1943, apparently already living in a shroud of vines. Today, the lot Effie Neustadt bought in 1903 and on which she built both 2515 and 2525 Wilshire is given over to—what else?—parking; while 2525 was demolished in 1934, 2515, even though still inhabited until 1943, would languish for six years longer under its heavy coat of ivy and neglect. Improbably, the house was rescued by a contractor named J. Matthew Brown, who saw the potential of the 45-year-old house. On November 11, 1948, he received a permit from the Department of Building and Safety to remove its second floor "in preparation for re-location." Then, on January 26, he took out a permit to move the remains five miles across the city to 3031 Alsace Avenue just north of Jefferson west of La Brea. Brown rebuilt the house into a duplex and rented both units; a subsequent owner applied a "permastone" veneer in 1959 and converted it into a triplex in 1967. The now 112-year-old house remains standing, if with barely a clue as to its origins. One indicator, aside from the fact that no demolition permit has ever been issued for 3031 Alsace, is its left front bay window, which can be made out in the illustration at top that originally appeared in the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Los Angeles Times</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> on March 13, 1904.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>hile the fortunes of today often come from the ether, those of the late 19th century and into the 20th came from the earth. Many a Los Angeles plutocrat of the turn of the last century struck gold, literally, in fields on either side of the Sierra Nevada; some brought oil up from right under the city. Other men came by their wealth from minerals extracted from Eastern veins and then retired west or began new business ventures there. Nicholas Earl Rice had pulled a lot of coal out of Pennsylvania mines, enough to afford him as nice a life as could be had in Scranton, including, by 1898, a lovely new turreted Victorian, and, it seems, a blessed bit of travel to exotic sunny lands. One can only imagine Rice's and his wife Harriet's disinclination to return to the cold and dark and sooty east once they got an eyeful of Los Angeles, circa 1900—not to mention a <i>noseful</i> of orange-scented air. They never went east to live again, not even in their coffins. Would you have?</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">California did indeed work its predictable magic on the Rices. Mr. Rice decided to stay and invest in a new concern, the Pacific Coast Manufacturing Company, which would be fabricating irrigation- and oil-industry supplies. The Rices at</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> first rented a house at 838 South Lake Street. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Already with a number of acquaintances in Los Angeles, they were well entertained that first winter, their circle coming to include Dr. Henderson Hayward, a fellow Pennsylvanian who had come west in 1895 to pursue a whole new life after tiring decades of doctoring in Philadelphia. Rebounding in the sunshine, Hayward left medicine behind to become an major figure in the oil business, investing his proceeds in city property including in Gaylord Wilshire's new subdivision. He built his own house at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2501-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2501 Wilshire</a> in 1897; in early 1901, he sold a lot he owned across the street to Nicholas Rice. By the end of the year, Rice had commissioned prominent architect John C. Austin to design the modern, turretless, 15-room house </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">at the southeast corner of Coronado Street </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">that became 2520 Wilshire Boulevard.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">As Nicholas kept busy during the day with his new business interests, Harriet began decades of throwing dinners, receptions, card parties, and charming afternoon teas. Wilshire Boulevard's peak of residential desirability came at about the same time that Rice decided to buy the remainder of 2520's blockfront in 1908. The southwest corner of Wilshire and Carondelet had come into the hands of E. M. Davis around 1900; Davis had in turn sold the corner in 1904 to pottery manufacturer Homer Laughlin, who began a foundation for a house there. Nicholas Rice removed the foundation and turned the lot into an extensive garden for 2520, giving him the largest single-family holding on the original four blocks of Wilshire between Westlake and Sunset (Lafayette) parks. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The newly formed Southern California Athletic and Country Club announced its ambitious plans well before the house came down. The club commissioned a design by Edwin Bergstrom; the <i>Times </i>would go on to report that work on it was to begin "imminently" more than once. But the delay would turn into years—there were many revisions to the plan, including, when Wilshire in these precincts was rezoned for business, one for street-level shops. The Department of Buildings issued a permit for the demolition of 2520 on August 31, 1923; then the architects Meyer and Holler were brought in for a complete 13-story redesign of the club. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">But the empty blockfront remained hideously fenced off, much to the dismay of neighbors. C</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">onstant public solicitations for club members went on into 1928, and still only some foundation work was accomplished by then. Plans for the club must have appeared fishy to newspaper readers of the time: Was it all just a scam to gain financial commitments from prospective members? No one could have been too surprised when club organizers announced bankruptcy in February 1929, well before the stock market crashed eight months later.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Within months the old Rice property was for sale, not finding a buyer until two years later when the Citizens National Bank bought it to flip. The Depression had yet to reach its nadir; nothing happened when conditions improved, and the war further delayed any development of the site. It remained vacant at least until Harriet Rice died at home on Occidental Boulevard in her 100th year in 1948, after which a General Petroleum filling station occupied at least part of the Rice lot. In the fall of 2018, the upper floors of the 13-story office building completed on the site in 1970 were slated to be converted into 248 residential units, part of a trend of gentrification bringing Wilshire Boulevard's run through Westlake into a new era of high-end residential occupancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Coakley may have only spent parts of some winters at 2525, renting the house during his absences. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">William C. Ennis, president of the West Coast Eucalyptus Company, a land-development concern, was in residence during 1911. After Coakley's death, the house came into the hands of Thomas Jefferson Fleming, the secretary and general manager of the California Portland Cement Company. He remained until at least 1921, after which 2525 appears to have been rented to recent widow Mabel C. Chappellet as she awaited the completion of her new house at <a href="http://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/2016/01/for-introduction-to-windsor-square_31.html">309 Plymouth Boulevard</a> in Windsor Square, ready by the end of 1922. Twenty-five twenty-five then </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">began to suffer, along with the rest of residential Wilshire Boulevard at least as far west as the emerging Miracle Mile, from the ignominy of trade. By 1933, the Gypsy Camp Hungarian Restaurant was slinging goulash around the rooms of one of Effie Gardner Neustadt's former demesnes, though not for long; the Department of Building and Safety issued permits for the demolition of 2525 on October 8, 1934, and, 30 days later, for a Standard Oil station to replace it.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There were few corners of the country that Clinton Sterry hadn't lived in before taking up permanent residence in Los Angeles just a year before moving to Wilshire Boulevard. Unusually mobile for a man of his era, Sterry was born near Ashtabula, Ohio, on April 8, 1843, and raised from infancy in coastal Connecticut. In 1855 Sterry's clergyman father moved his family to Lake City, Minnesota, where he lived until returning to Ohio for college. After a year at Oberlin he joined Union forces in the Civil War, fighting for the duration and attaining a captaincy. After Appomattox Sterry earned his law degree at Ann Arbor, practicing back in Lake City before finally settling—so it seemed—in Emporia, Kansas, in 1873. It was there that his legal reputation would be made. Befitting such a mobile man, the railroad called Sterry, though not for him to hop the freights. In need of attorneys after pushing west in a big way after 1880, the Santa Fe hired the judge in 1882; 10 years later he became the road's chief attorney for New Mexico and then finally, in 1896, for all Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque, prompting his move to Los Angeles that October. Sometimes referred to as Captain and often as Judge—he'd had a stint as a judge pro tem at one point back in Kansas—Sterry and his family lived first in <a href="http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspot.com/">St. James Park</a> in a house apparently leased while more permanent arrangements were being made.</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">What might have persuaded the Sterrys to choose the very new Wilshire tract over the established West Adams district is unclear. It might have been a very persuasive Gaylord Wilshire selling Clinton on his subdivision after lunch at the California Club—it is a tribute to the railroad man that he'd been taken into the city's most exclusive men's organization even before he moved to town permanently. The Wilshire Boulevard Tract was barren prairie when it opened, but then so was just about every new tract in Los Angeles before water was piped in as part of development. What seems to have been least attractive about Wilshire's subdivision was the presence of the west end of the unsightly derricks and occasional stench of the Los Angeles City Oil Field belt in the blocks just to the north. Gaylord was nothing if not a salesman: Not only did he sell a sizable plot to Sterry—two full lots and half of another—but so too did Sterry move forward in a big way when he commissioned a major house on land far from the settled, verdant, and distinctly unindustrial bon ton precincts southwest of downtown. Sterry began assembling his corner by first purchasing Lot 8 in March 1897; in June, in the name of Mrs. Sterry, Lot 7, just to the north, and half of the 70-foot Lot 9 to the west were secured. Construction must have begun forthwith, Dennis & Farwell's design perhaps having already been commissioned. Building permits for a three-story house and a barn were issued in September; on October 15, the <i>Times</i> reported that, in pace with Henderson Hayward's <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2501-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2501 Wilshire</a> a block east, the Sterrys' Venetian-tinged palazzo was nearing completion.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The rest of the Sterry family was sought after socially just as much as Clinton had been; for them, Los Angeles—still just a dusty town of 102,500 in 1900—must have seemed wildly cosmopolitan compared to even dustier Albuquerque. Being rich and possessed of a grand new house requiring five live-in servants in a city of shallow roots was a large calling card, of course, as was the propensity of Louise Sterry to entertain tirelessly. The four Sterry offspring were another asset in establishing a presence. Norman and Nora were 19 and 18, respectively, when they moved into 2607; Ruth was 14 and the caboose, Philip, was 2. While the family was together on Wilshire Boulevard there was the scourge of an ever expanding city—hammer blows would not let up for decades to come as thousands and thousands of houses were built. How exactly that other bane of the Wilshire tract had not been addressed before it came to a lawsuit is unclear, but <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/2619-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">Hiram Higgins</a> put his foot down after he bought the Wilshire tract's Lot 10 and the west half of Lot 9 next door to the Sterrys in 1897 and then took a lungful of petroleum- rather than orange-scented air. In early 1899, members of the Westlake Improvement and Protective Association sought to fend off the approach of derricks by asking the city council to pass an ordinance limiting their proximity. The ordinance passed, but compliance was indifferent. Higgins would not build <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/2619-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2619</a> on his property until 1902, apparently by then satisfied that "great volumes of noxious smokes, gases and smells that at times render the neighborhood almost uninhabitable," as he contended in a lawsuit filed in December 1899, had blown away for good. Interestingly, Higgins's attorney was his neighbor and interested party, Judge Clinton N. Sterry. Aside from hammering and odors, the early years of the earliest segment of Wilshire Boulevard were punctuated by another urban ill. Reports of porchclimbers and yeggmen were rife in the best Los Angeles neighborhoods even more than century ago; on December 4, 1901, a burglar broke into 2607 and made off with a purse containing 20 cents. </span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Sterrys' family life on Wilshire Boulevard would be torn asunder by much worse than a thief. Clinton had broken his arm in the summer of 1901 but was otherwise in as good health as a man of prosperity and girth in the Victorian and Edwardian ages could be. It was a shock to his family when he died unexpectedly on May 23, 1903. Norman, who would go on to be a renowned Los Angeles attorney-to-the-stars, was just receiving his law degree at Ann Arbor; in 1923 he would build <a href="https://hancockparklosangeles.blogspot.com/2021/03/please-see-our-companion-histories_8.html">134 South Rossmore Avenue</a> in <a href="https://hancockparklosangeles.blogspot.com/">Hancock Park</a>. Like her sister, Nora was mentioned constantly in society columns, but neither ever married despite their exposure. Nora instead became a teacher and school principal who also devoted endless hours of hands-on time to the betterment of the citizens of the ignored Los Angeles barrio. Eventually becoming president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education, she was honored after her death by the renaming of the Sawtelle Boulevard School as Nora Sterry Elementary. Ruth pursued a career as a newspaperwoman, early on becoming a reporter for the <i>Herald</i> as well as a poet of some repute. Whereas their brothers became white-shoe attorneys (à la Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher), like Clinton Sterry very much on the side of the establishment, the sisters along with their mother became extraordinarily progressive civic activists of great tenacity. The sisters also each boldly became single mothers, Ruth adopting an orphaned Belgian girl the year her father died, Nora adopting a boy whose mother was a poor Russian Jewish widow. It seems that after putting in many hours smiling in Los Angeles's most genteel parlors, the sisters had determined that the city's poor needed more help than rich matrons needed assistance pouring tea.</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A year after Clinton died, mother of the clan Louise Sterry decided to leave the Boulevard. With her children disinclined to leave home due to temperament or in Philip's case, age, perhaps the reason was a lingering scent of oil rather than having too much space. Given Wilshire Boulevard's infancy in 1904, the West Adams district was still preferred by most prosperous Angelenos for its settled air. Mrs. Sterry would sell 2607 in September, the same month buying a house off Adams Street at 2632 Ellendale Place. The Sterrys remained close: Louise, Norman, Nora, Ruth, and Philip were all living together on Ellendale Place during the '00s; when Norman married in 1909, his wife, Josephine, moved in too. The Ellendale house would remain in the family for another 37 years, during which time 2607 Wilshire would see many comings and goings.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">An illustration of the ambivalence bedeviling the rich when it came to deciding on desirable early-20th-century Los Angeles </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">neighborhoods was Daniel Murphy's hedge of bets in acquiring properties both in the West Adams district and on Wilshire Boulevard during </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">1903 and 1904. In September 1904, a year after buying an existing house on a large lot on Adams Street, the über Irish-Catholic millionaire purchased 2607 Wilshire from the estate of Clinton Sterry, for whom he had recently served as a pallbearer. Born in Pennsylvania in 1855, Murphy began his rise by wildcatting in Oklahoma. After moving to California with the Southern Pacific, his Gilded Age drive turned all he touched, appropriately enough, to gold. After developing the railroad stop of Needles into a town in the 1880s, he financed the reorganization of the California Portland Cement Company in 1894 and then founded the Brea Cañ</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">on Oil Company, all of which provided the means to speculate in land. A largely forgotten Los Angeles legend, Murphy was no mere high-living plutocrat. His rather unilateral philanthropy—he became the largest single contributor to the Los Angeles Catholic diocese—became famous, earning him one of those curious Catholic mockregal titles, his being Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Perhaps the Venetian suggestions of 2607 Wilshire appealed to a growing sense of power; at any rate, while he made the effort to enlarge the Sterry house from 14 to 17 rooms, he would ultimately decide that as fashionable as Gaylord Wilshire's subdivision might be, the baronial dimensions of his property in the much more established old-guard Adams District would allow for a grander in-town estate rather than would a mere suburban lot. It would be four years before he replaced the exisiting house at 2076 West Adams Street with a large Italian Renaissance mansion and elaborate gardens for his wife, Antoinette. Perhaps it was she who rejected the Sterry house. In any case, while all along staying at their Adams district house on Orchard Avenue, along came a third Big Swinging Dick to take 2607 Wilshire off of the Murphys' hands in May 1905.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While Clinton Sterry died too young to enjoy his home for very long and Daniel Murphy never actually occupied 2607 Wilshire Boulevard, the house's longest-term tenant prior to its ignominious transformation into a boarding establishment was another man from the east. A New Yorker with much more in his financial and social quiver than either Sterry or Murphy when they arrived to take up permanent residence on the West Coast, Isaac Milbank had lately been vice-president and general manager of the New York Condensed Milk Company, founded in 1858 by his uncle Jeremiah Milbank (who supplied the capital) and Gail Borden and later, as the famed Borden Company, progenitor of Elsie the Cow. Ties between the Milbank and Borden families were tight. Of Gail Borden's daughter Philadelphia Borden Johnson's seven children, one son was named Milbank after his grandfather's business partner and a daughter, Virginia, would marry Isaac Milbank. It was Milbank Johnson, who became a prominent </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Southern California</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> physician, and his older brother Gail Borden Johnson who had first arrived in Southern California circa 1890, soon setting up a shoe manufacturing business in Alhambra. B</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">y some accounts for reasons of his health, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Isaac and Virginia began to visit California frequently after the turn of the century, often being mentioned in newspaper accounts of social events. It wasn't until after the January 1905 death of their firstborn son, Lawrence, of appendicitis while at boarding school in New Hampshire that the Isaac Milbanks decided to move west permanently. In May of that year, contracts were signed with Daniel Murphy for the sale of 2607 Wilshire to Virginia for $50,000—the amount Murphy had paid the Sterry estate eight months before plus $20,000 for the expansion. (Although it was at the time common for a husband to place the deed of a house in his wife's name, it may well have been Mrs. Milbank's separate funds that paid for the transaction, also not uncommon if the wife was rich in her own right.) From that time, the Milbanks seemed hardly to have ever looked back east. Los Angeles was home.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Once at home on Wilshire Boulevard, the Milbanks proceeded to turn a suburban lot into an in-town estate after all, even into somewhat of a family compound. Nichols Milbank arrived in Los Angeles around the time of his older brother's purchase of 2607; after he bought the house at 615 South Coronado, four lots north, the siblings proceeded acquire the three empty intervening lots in March 1906 on which a rose garden and tennis courts were built. In a move that would become a habit, Isaac had been speculating in area property recently. The previous November, as part of a syndicate, he'd bought a 35-acre tract a few blocks north of Wilshire that was developed into Upper Rampart Heights.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Assimilating into "come one come all" California with ease, Isaac Milbank, his health and spirits apparently restored, assumed a business and social position as though to Los Angeles born. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While of Baptist heritage, in Los Angeles Milbank worshipped among his ruling-class equals at St. John's Episcopal on Adams Street. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">He was a booster of aviation in the Southland and, just before his death, a member of the investment group that developed the Biltmore. He was a member, naturally, of the California, the Athletic, the Los Angeles and Wilshire Country clubs, as well as of the very selective Bolsa Chica Gun Club.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Over the years, he would become a director of the German-American Trust & Savings Bank (Guaranty Trust & Savings after April 1917) with his brother-in-law Gail B. Johnson and Joseph Burkhard of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance and Union Oil and an investor in the California Delta Farms and Sinaloa Land development projects with <a href="http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles.com/2011/05/4-second-lee-allen-phillips-house.html">Lee Allen Phillips</a>, among other men.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Milbank roost in Gaylord Wilshire's original tract lasted eight years. Clearly enjoying his role as a builder of Los Angeles, Isaac was inspired when in 1904 the opportunity arose to acquire the property occupied by the</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Los Angeles Country Club prior to</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> opening its present Westside clubhouse in 1911. Platting of streets and building on the</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> rolling plain bounded roughly by 10th Street (now Olympic Boulevard), </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Pico Street (now Pico Boulevard), Western Avenue, and Crenshaw Boulevard </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">began even before the club vacated the district to which it bequeathed its legacy, though a legacy little known today. Isaac Milbank hired G. Lawrence Stimson to build an extravagant new residence at 3340 Country Club Drive at the center of the area dubbed Country Club Park, to which his family moved in 1913 and which still stands, as does his Craftsman Santa Monica </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">vacation house built </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">two years before. Nichols Milbank also left the old neighborhood, moving by 1915 into cousin Eleanor Milbank Anderson Tanner's specially-built, super-sanitary house at 671 Wilshire Place after a divorce caused in part by the extreme overprotection of her daughter Betty, called "The Human Orchid" </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">by the press.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Isaac Milbank, the very definition of the archaic term "capitalist," had been born on June 27, 1864, in Fairfield, Connecticut; he died in Los Angeles on August 13, 1922, with 2607 Wilshire Boulevard long left behind. as part of what became a tradition of dizzyingly short lives of some of the most substantial houses ever built in the city, the old Sterry house had only a few years to stand by 1922. Following the departure of the Milbanks, 2607 appears after a few years to have become the property of Lillian H. Eustis, a young widow who had had experience running boarding houses. She filled the old Venetian palazzo's 17 rooms with all manner of lodgers, including the remarkable Angeleno Helen Mathewson, child- and animal-welfare crusader, anti-slum advocate, holder of a window-design patent, and at one time proprietor of the famous Hershey Arms hotel just across Wilshire Boulevard. The house was filled with boarders at least until 1922, after which the northside lots of the 2600 block of Wilshire would be cleared once again after barely a generation. The 1902 Higgins-Verbeck house next door at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/2619-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2619</a> was moved to Windsor Square to make way for the Arcady apartments (now the Wilshire Royale) in 1923. Not long after, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the Sterry-Murphy-Milbank-Eustis house left its lot; sadly, only a small outbuilding was saved and moved to the El Sereno district. A demolition permit for the house was issued by the Department of Buildings on May 19, 1924; an aerial photograph taken after 2619's move and prior to the long-delayed construction of the Arcady (it didn't open until late 1927) reveals only dust.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Rather than an opulent apartment house to join the 1906 Hershey Arms, the 1912 Bryson, and the Arcady, the northwest corner of Wilshire and Coronado appears to have only been graced by an automobile repair shop opened in 1925 and in place for the next 26 years. Some architectural relief would come in 1952 with the opening of the sleek and still-extant Remington-Rand showroom designed by Welton Becket, but Venetian opulence and plutocrats were never to return to the original blocks of Wilshire Boulevard.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In a reversal of the usual replacement of Wilshire Boulevard residences with taller<br />buildings, such as the Arcady/Wilshire Royale's of <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/2619-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2619</a> (the Bryson is just to<br />its left), Welton Becket's still-extant 1952 Remington-Rand showroom</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Illustrations: <a href="http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm/">The Art Institute of Chicago</a>; <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=t-lYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA937&dq=sterry+history+of+the+bench+and+bar+of+calif&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HWp-U4mHBK-zsATl6YDoCQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sterry%20history%20of%20the%20bench%20and%20bar%20of%20calif&f=false">History of the Bench and Bar of California</a>; <a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/">USCDL</a>; <a href="http://lapl.org/">LAPL</a>; <a href="http://countryclubpark.org/">Country Club Park Neighborhood Association</a>;</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he 1920s, famously, roared. Counted as megaboom years in dozens of ways that marked the true beginning of modern American life, the social and technological advances of the era lit the fuse of mobility. While Chicago is often remembered as the civic embodiment of the Roaring Twenties in less savory ways, Los Angeles was without question the decade's civic movie star. The city motorized itself into a stupor, sprawling at unprecedented rates, its myriad physical and economic attractions bringing hundreds of thousands of new settlers from points east. With its population more than doubling from 1920 to 1930, there was a mad scramble for housing, and before the boulevards became too crowded for feasible mansion-moving and before the bottom finally dropped out of the roar, there was even a bit of a scramble <i>of</i> houses, among them the <a href="http://fremontplace.blogspot.com/2014/11/70-fremont-place-please-also-see-our.html">Drake</a> and </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/3325-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">Aronson</a> piles. Generally, the literal moving of houses was away from </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">increasingly crowded downtown neighborhoods to newer tracts to the west. The definition of "West Los Angeles" had begun to shift leftward from West Adams and toward the Pacific years before; with the rise of Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, and Brentwood, among other districts, Windsor Square and Hancock Park were only just becoming mid-town neighborhoods in the '20s, striking the right balance between space and convenience to the still dominant downtown business district. While some houses were moved farther west, it was to these genteel areas that the largest ones—wooden as well as masonry—were most often moved.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">The turreted rear, northwest corner of 2619 is seen behind a house<br />at 626 Benton Boulevard from Sunset—later Lafayette—Park; the towers of the<br />Shoreham Hotel on Carondelet Street are seen at right. Below, another view<br />of 2619 to the left of <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2721-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2721 Wilshire</a>; the Hershey Arms is at right.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The most famous of all mobile homes in the city is the Higgins-Verbeck house now, but not always, at 637 South Lucerne Boulevard, just above Wilshire Boulevard in Windsor Square. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Attributed to one of the Southland's most in-demand architects and </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">built for Chicago</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> grain merchant Hiram Higgins in 1902, it sat on a flat lot purchased five years before at 2619 Wilshire, at the northeast corner of R</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">ampart </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">between Westlake (MacArthur) and Sunset (Lafayette) parks. In a design review on Valentine's Day of 1904, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> described the house as</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;">"...one of the really fine pieces of architectural work that are to be found among the more recent additions to the dwellings of this city. It is a 16-room, two-story combination frame and stone structure, with basement and attic. The house was designed by John C. Austin and erected under his supervision...in [a] style...typical of the Romanesque.... The stonework extends up to the windowsills of the first story in some portions of the building and up to the floor line of the second story in other portions.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">"The first floor includes a reception hall, sitting room, parlor, library, dining room, rear hall, kitchen and pantries. On the second floor are six bedchambers, three bathrooms and three balconies.... The principal rooms of the first floor are finished in oak. The bedrooms of the upper stories are finished in </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">white pine and enamel.... In the attic are three bedrooms, and space for a billiard room. The basement contains storage, fuel and furnace rooms.... The building is lighted by both gas and electricity, and is provided...with modern conveniences.... The house and the improvement of the grounds cost about $37,000."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Given little times to enjoy it, Hiram Higgins died in the house on June 1, 1906; an extremely contentious battle over his will ensued, pitting Mrs. Higgins and her son, William, against her daughter Lilian, widow of Charles Wellington Rand. By all accounts a formidable if not unscrupulous woman who was given to referring pretentiously to 2619 as "Whitehall," Mrs. Rand was victorious, wresting her mother's life tenancy in the house away from the old lady. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Lilian seems to have made it her business to cultivate the power brokers of the city, including Harrison Gray Otis, who lived down the boulevard at </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/2401-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2401</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> and who it appears she may have dragooned into her fight with her mother and brother. Otis-Rand family bonds were strengthened with the friendship (and later partnership in the automobile business) of Lilian's son Charles Wellington Rand (apparently born Hiram Higgins Rand but renamed for his father after the latter's death in 1900) and Ralph Chandler, nephew of Harry Chandler, Otis's son-in-law. Ralph Chandler even lived at 2619 for a time.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The year 1917 was not a good one for the chatelaine of 2619 Wilshire Boulevard. In February, newspapers reported that Charles Rand was seeking an end to his rocky marriage from a woman he had eloped with in 1911 on the grounds that she had neglected to divorce her previous spouse. (Prior reports had indicated possible cruelty and non-support on the part of Charles.) On July 16, Mrs. Rand managed to survive a serious automobile accident while driving with her friend Mrs. Elmer Clark of <a href="http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles.com/2011/08/21-roberts-buchanan-fusenot-fairchild.html">21 Berkeley Square</a>. Harrison Gray Otis died on July 30. And then on October 4, Charles turned up dead as a result of cleaning his gun while preparing to hunt squirrels at his ranch south of Culver City. Dying while cleaning one's gun is practically a euphemism for suicide, but the truth of the incident remains murky. After her <i>annus horribilis, </i>Lilian and her daughter, Lilian Jr., decided to leave Los Angeles for good. It was announced in the <i>Times</i> on October 30, 1917, that after a round-the-world trip, the Rand ladies would settle in either Washington, D.C., or Boston. "Whitehall" would be let for the winter, if not for longer.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Two years after the departure of the Rands, an agreement was reached to sell 2619 Wilshire Boulevard to interior decorator Howard Verbeck and the opera singer he had married on March 10, 1919, the former Blanche Avicestell H</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">arriman; four</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> years after that, early on the moonlit morning of June 28, 1923, the house, with great fanfare, migrated westward as a mobile party in honor of soprano Rosa Ponselle was taking place inside</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">. (Miss Ponselle sang long about Vermont Avenue.) It seems that one day Blanche, taken with the house even before she married Howard, noticed the advertisement of master house mover George R. Kress, one depicting a globe being held by ice tongs along with the slogan, "If we had room to work, we could move the world." Consulting John Austin's original blueprints and taking four months, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">workmen used </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">among other tools</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> fine keyhole saws</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> to carve the house into pieces that would fit down the as-yet-unwidened Wilshire Boulevard; c</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">arpenters included a man with personal knowledge, having been among the original team of builders in 1902. T</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">he Department of Buildings issued permits to relocate the house and its garage on April 20 as the Kress team continued its preparations and to ready its enormous trucks. One charming anecdote about the move has to do with 17-year-old Jackson Correll Baker, who, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">from the window of his family's apartment </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">at the Hershey Arms </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">across Wilshire Boulevard from 2619, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">had observed the preparation of the house and its departure</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">. Some years later, Mr. Baker, having become an electrical engineer in the film business, met and married Marjorie Harriman of the U.C.L.A. art-department faculty. She was Blanche Verbeck's daughter from her previous marriage and had spent her teenage years and young adulthood in the same house on two different Los Angeles streets.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Apparently it was once cheaper to move a building the size of the Verbeck house—and even larger, multistory office buildings—rather than erect something new on a lot, but it must have cost a small fortune to install a new foundation and put the pieces back together. In the case of the Higgins-Verbeck house, some savings might have been realized in terms of cosmetics (plaster repair, painting, modernizing, etc.), given Howard Verbeck's profession. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">If only such moves had remained economically viable operations.... While it would be preferable for the neighborhoods they were built in to return to glory, hundreds of magnificent Los Angeles houses could still be rescued and we'd be spared the indignities of much new domestic architectural horror.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />The headline of an odd article in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> of<br />July 1, 1923, suggests that the partygoers had been flattened by the<br />house; the new address is off by 22 blocks. And could the guest list have<br />inspired Fitzgerald's famous one in <i>The Great Gatsby</i>? (Presumably "Rosa Fonselis"<br />is the honoree, opera star Rosa Ponselle.) Below is the Higgins-Verbeck house depicted<br />in an illustration accompanying an article seen in the <i>Times</i> on August 20, 1949, on the<br />issues faced by the Ebell Club regarding parking for its members. <a href="https://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/">Windsor Square</a><br />lots facing Wilshire were not popular with homebuilders; the sale of a lot to the<br />Ebell Club would have been welcome by its owner, as were Christmas-<br />tree vendor rentals. Eventually large commercial buildings arrived.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjk3WsRrRSObVJCAAiceXu1xuVSZ9FhfiI8TLijvcfrow4tmgJUTWigLCh-koKFOngKOxY_lyIy--h1MTc6bQN9HKV41NtcU73Yl-bGEtkzt9oIWmYSS2zSTaNaxqGLgWuFCBgmWyo1fKZooY8VetGy8rEU-v0Vpu6VQOXwCfVpE8YYVnJId2t99Sll=s1000"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="1000" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjk3WsRrRSObVJCAAiceXu1xuVSZ9FhfiI8TLijvcfrow4tmgJUTWigLCh-koKFOngKOxY_lyIy--h1MTc6bQN9HKV41NtcU73Yl-bGEtkzt9oIWmYSS2zSTaNaxqGLgWuFCBgmWyo1fKZooY8VetGy8rEU-v0Vpu6VQOXwCfVpE8YYVnJId2t99Sll=w640-h500" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /><br />The entrance hall as seen at the time of the house coming<br />on the market for $6.5 million in October 2014. The house's proximity to</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">the commercial bustle of Wilshire Boulevard is unfortunate, with the rear side and<br /> parking lot of a five-story office building just next door—if only the Verbecks had<br /> moved the house farther north or that current economics were such that<br />it could be cut up again and transported to a more desirable lot.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The living room at the southeast corner of the house, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">as seen during </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">preparations for an estate</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">sale held on the premises in May </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">2014 prior to its being put on the market. As of</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">January 2016, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">having been listed on and off, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">637 South Lucerne</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">was still</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">for sale, having had price reductions</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> of over</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;">$1.5 million, down to $4.95 million.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After finally selling on January 18, 2017, for perhaps (a big perhaps) what it was worth—$3,190,000—<br />
a highly ambitious flipper has desecrated the house's 115-year-old woodwork with what has the<br />
appearance of $1.98 makeover that he somehow believes adds well over $5,000,000 to<br />
the value of an eccentric house on an unspectacular block in aging neighborhood...<br />
next to an office building that fronts a busy boulevard. As of September 2017,<br />
it is on the market for $8,999,000. While the dark, awkward spaces of<br />
Victoriana are clearly of interest to too few buyers, pickled wood<br />
may only repel a whole new crowd of shoppers. Perhaps the<br />
house will eventually be sold as an auction bargain and<br />
moved once again—given that its original 1902<br />
neighborhood is undergoing a renaissance,<br />
might a trip back to the intersection of<br />
Wilshire and Rampart be in order?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Illustrations: <a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/simplesearch.htm">USCDL</a>; <a href="http://losangelespast.blogspot.com/">Los Angeles Past</a>; <a href="http://latimes.com/">LAT</a>; </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.estatesales.net/">EstateSalesNET</a>;</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.justabovesunset.com/">Just Above Sunset</a>; </span><a href="http://lapl.org/">LAPL</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">; </span><i><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Building_Age/aF7lAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=verbeck">Building Age and The Builder's Journal</a></i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">;</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.zillow.com/">Zillow</a>; <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OopDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=men+of+achievement+in+the+southwest&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj-uHHhp3VAhWCKCYKHcnJB_gQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=russell&f=true"><i>Men of Achievement in the Great Southwest</i></a>; GSV</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>uilt in 1905 at the southwest corner of Wilshire and Rampart boulevards, 2702 was a commission of the firm of Sumner Hunt and Wesley Eager by Richard Bruns, late of St. Paul, Minnesota, and known as Carl Franz Wilhelm Richard Bruns before emigrating from Silesia in 1882. Bruns had bought his unimproved 90-by-150-foot lot from a Mrs. M. A. Taylor in March 1904; on May 15, 1905, the Superintendent of Buildings issued a permit for a frame-and-plaster house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Curious is a headline in the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Times</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> of January 31, 1909: </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LUCKY ANGELENOS SEE MESSINA DIE</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. While in Sicily a month earlier, Mr. and Mrs. Bruns and their 14-year-old son, Clarence, had witnessed, and were lucky enough to survive, the massive December 28 earthquake that killed 123,000 people. Given that by the next year 2702 was occupied by Phineas Newmark, a coffee and tea importer and member of a founding Los Angeles merchant clan, it may have seemed that the prospect of a similar seismic occurrence in California had given the Brunses second thoughts about returning to Los Angeles; as it turns out, Newmark was only leasing the house while the Brunses were traveling or back in St. Paul during the warmer months. In any case, Phineas's tenure was short; he died on December 26, 1910. The Brunses would retain ownership of the house for at least 25 more years while continuing to rent it from time to time; Adolph Karl Steinlein, a principal in Haas, Baruch & Company, another pioneer Los Angeles importing and wholesale grocery concern, was in residence in 1915. Eventually, with tall apartment buildings replacing houses and any pretense of a single-family residential neighborhood fading rapidly, houses such as 2702 were divided into apartments. Commerce was not far behind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Opera coach Manuel Sanchez De Lara was renting the Bruns house by 1928 to teach voice; not long after,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Dr. Dennis Vivian Moore, an osteopath, moved his practice from downtown as well as his family into 2702 for the next several years. In another apartment lived delivery clerk Walter J. Burk and his wife Mathilda. Then Jane Assell, proprietor of restaurants in several old houses in the district, opened one of her Pollyanna Tea Rooms in the Bruns house in 1932, succeeded later that year by the Adele Lang Tea Room, which appears to have been an offshoot of the Assell operation. (The Adele Lang shop's tenancy was brief; it moved west to <a href="https://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2018/02/637-south-ardmore-avenue-please-also.html">637 South Ardmore Avenue</a>, just off Wilshire, within a couple of weeks of its advertisement seen below.) Tea rooms were ubiquitous in Los Angeles during the '20s and '30s; i</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t seems that within a generation the once-modern early Wilshire Boulevard houses on either side of Lafayette Park had become quaint settings for ladies who lunch.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Bruns family, appreciating the commercial income their property generated, then decided to reconfigure the lot to increase revenue. The Associated Oil Company, soon to merge with Tide Water, leased the corner for one of its Flying A filling stations; the house, rather than being demolished, was relocated, if not very far. On July 22, 1935, permits were issued by the city for its move to the back of the lot, where it was turned to face Rampart. At its new address, 659 South Rampart, Jane Assell resumed operations under her own name before moving across the park to </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/06/2976-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2976 Wilshire</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> several years later. Various other commercial entities would occupy the old house until 1955. That year, the Department of Building and Safety issued permits for the demolition of the Flying A station on January 27 and for the house on May 18. The current two-story building designed by Claud Beelman & Associates was completed on the corner the next year.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">nce midblock on the south side of Wilshire between Rampart and Benton boulevards (the latter street now South Lafayette Park Place), this house was built in 1902 by real estate investor John B. Eager, who bought and improved many lots in Gaylord Wilshire's original tract and in the districts that developed along the boulevard to the west. The <i>Los Angeles Express</i> reported on September 5, 1902, that he had let the contract for the construction of 2706 to builders John G. Frankland and William P. Franklin. Eager lived in the house until selling it in March 1905 to one of the biggest of Los Angeles muckety-mucks, William Lyman Stewart, president of the Union Well Supply Company and later Union Oil. Petroleum was in his blood—Stewart's father had been drilling as early as 1870 in Pennsylvania before founding Union Oil on the West Coast. When Stewart moved to Pasadena several years later, he was succeeded at 2706 by Robert V. Watchorn, who had moved to Los Angeles in 1909 after four years as Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration Service at Ellis Island, that year Watchorn being named treasurer of Union Oil. He and Alma Watchorn remained at 2706 until around the time of the death of their 27-year-old son, Emory, at Good Samaritan Hospital on July 25, 1921. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">s compared with a view at top </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">of 2706 </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">from the east, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">circa</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The middle years of 2706 Wilshire so far remain obscure; a huge number of <i>Times</i> advertisements appearing </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">during the '20s and '30s </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">for a much-hyped snake oil called Sargon refer to a </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">"W. C. Lynch," said to </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">be a businessman living at the address. No other records indicate the existence of Mr. Lynch, but perhaps his creator was renting a room in the house where he concocted his wonder serum—and his amusing ads in which all of the miracle-cured wore the same owl glasses, even the women, and some appeared to be the same person:</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Chiropractor Dean V. Moore, who had been living with his family next door at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/2702-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2702</a> in 1930, appears to have come into possession of 2706 in the mid '30s. There, he and his wife, Zoe, a nurse—along with his sister, Lucille, who managed a business called California Food Concentrates in the house—opened what is termed on an alteration permit issued by the city in 1943 as a "restatorium." T</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">he notation "sanitorium</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">" is next to the diagram of 2706 on Sanborn insurance maps corrected to 1953, when the house had just a bit more time to stand: The Department of Building and Safety issued a permit for its demolition on May 18, 1955.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n July 28, 1899, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> reported that contracts had been signed for a "one-story frame and plaster residence containing seven room exclusive of bathrooms, pantries, closets, etc., for Mrs. Ella Giles Ruddy...to be built on the north side of Wilshire boulevard, between Rampart and Benton streets"; on November 14, the <i>Times</i> announced in its society pages that Mr. and Mrs. George Drake Ruddy had just given "the first of a series of 'Sunday evenings' at their handsome new home, No. 2711 Wilshire Boulevard." T</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he house, referred to as a "Mission cottage," was the easternmost of two once situated midblock on the north side of Wilshire between Rampart and Benton (now South Lafayette Park Place), the other being </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/w-hile-surprising-number-of-houses-that.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">2715</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In September 1900, the house was advertised in the </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Herald</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> as being for rent—furnished—for an unspecified term; the Ruddys would be spending time at "Monono Breakers," their new house at Ocean Beach. Ever sociable, before long the couple returned to their city house to throw many more parties and to host high-minded "salons" over the next number of years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Acquired for its lot in November 1911 by developer Hugh Bryson to be replaced by his fabled Bryson Apartments, opened in January 1913, the Ruddy house was offered in a classified advertisement in the <i>Times</i> on March 15, 1912, for sale at $1,000, with the caveat that it was "to be removed at once." It was purchased within weeks by clothier Perry L. Isenstein; he moved it to 222 South Gramercy Place, where it remains in excellent repair today. The Ruddys had moved across Wilshire to the Hershey Arms; there they awaited the completion of yet another new house, this one being built by Irving Gill at 241 North Western Avenue. (More on the Ruddys is at John Crosse's superlative blog, "Southern California Architectural History," </span><a href="http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com/2015/08/ella-giles-ruddy-house-241-n-western.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">here were two frame houses midblock on the north side of Wilshire between Rampart and Benton boulevards (the latter now South Lafayette Park Place), <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/05/2711-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2711</a> the easternmost and 2715 the westernmost. Our subject, 2715, appears to have been built by actor-turned-director-turned-real-estate-man Gilbert E. Gardner, perhaps in a speculative venture with another property dealer, Orion L. Woodward. A third property dealer, Oscar Eugene Farish, was residing at 2715 in the middle years of the aughts before moving to a fourth's former house at 2193 West Adams Street in 1907. In 1909, Woodward was listed in the Los Angeles city directory as living at 2715; Gardner, who had built a residence for himself at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2721-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2721</a> on the Benton corner next door to the west in 1904, appears to have moved into 2715 after selling 2721 in late 1909. (The Bekins vans were getting a good workout on this one house alone.) By 1911 the Gardners were in a new house nearby on Andrews Boulevard (the stretch of the present-day Lafayette Park Place north of Sixth Street); that same year, Harmon D. Ryus, Oldsmobile promoter and agency manager for automobile dealer Leon T. Shettler (who lived up the street at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/3100-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">3100 Wilshire</a>), was in residence at 2715. Ryus stayed for a decade, the last eight years in the morning shadow of the 10-story Bryson Apartments completed next door in December 1912. With Ryus's departure, 2715, along with 2721, disappeared from their lots. The latter was moved to 517 South Occidental Boulevard in 1921; our subject house, 2715, was moved north to 1823 Ocean View Avenue, between Burlington and Bonnie Brae, the same year, a permit for its relocation being issued on July 20.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A project to cut a new section of West Third Street through 2715's new neighborhood ordered by the Board of Public Works in February 1925 was coming together by the end of the decade; on November 10, 1930, a second relocation permit was issued for the house, though this time for a shorter move of 19 feet northward to its third new foundation at the back of the lot to which it had been moved in 1921. The house then received its third address, 1823 Ocean View Avenue becoming 1823 West Third Street by the time the new road, which completed Third between Figueroa Street and Vermont Avenue, was opened in 1932. Once Third Street became a major artery west out of downtown, trade was certain to eventually replace any vestiges of single-family housing along it, just as had occurred in the evolution of Wilshire Boulevard. A demolition permit for what had once been 2715 Wilshire was issued on October 9, 1968, to Safeway Stores, which would soon open a new market on the site.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">B</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">orn in England in 1838, Jonathan Dent emigrated to America 10 years later, the same year his wife Amelia was born in Ohio. Described, as were many denizens of Wilshire Boulevard, as a "capitalist" and as possessing his "own income" once he and his family arrived in California, Dent had apparently done very well as a coal dealer and grocer back in Columbus, Ohio. Jonathan and Amelia and their daughters, Margaret and Esther, began spending winters in Los Angeles in 1899, soon buying a house at 839 South Flower Street for a permanent move west. Mrs. Dent, who would die within five years—perhaps health had been a factor in the family's winter sojourns—was described in her obituary as having been "one of the prominent women of Columbus." Perhaps family funds on her side came into play; the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> of August 16, 1903, reported her as the purchaser of a 80-by-150-foot lot at the southeast corner of Wilshire and Benton boulevards (the latter now South Lafayette Park Place). On September 12, the <i>Los Angeles Express</i> noted that Mrs. Dent had just been issued a permit for a seven-room house on the corner. The Dents possessed the charm to have been taken up quickly by local society. If Amelia's health hadn't been compromised, perhaps it was the social whirl that did her in: She died on July 2, 1904, hardly having had a chance to issue invitations for teas and bridge parties at her new house. Jonathan and the girls stayed on at 2720, he until his death in 1917, Margaret and Esther—who that year had turned 45 and 43, respectively, and who never married—until at least 1923, by which time the die of the commercial future of Wilshire Boulevard had been cast. The Dent house appears to have left its corner lot with Margaret and Esther; there are indications that, among frequent house-relocations in the neighborhood, the sisters may have taken their house with them when they moved north across the park to 401 South Hoover Street in the latter half of 1923. While no specific permit has been found, the house that appeared on the southwest Hoover/Fourth Street corner was not there prior to 1923; its roofline in aerial views taken before its</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> 1971 demolition</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> appears to be the same as that of 2720 Wilshire. (The house next door at 411 South Hoover was relocated from Coronado Street in 1922.) The Dent daughters no doubt did well financially with the sale of a prime Wilshire corner with a view due north over Lafayette Park. Photographs reveal that the Wilshire lot was cleared before construction began on the 13-story Arcady Apartments across the boulevard, planned as early as 1923 and not begun until early 1927. In the view at top, the Dent house is seen from Lafayette Park at far right—the house with the columned portico—when it stood on Wilshire Boulevard. At far left is the Bryson, completed in 1913; just to its right is the Mission-style </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2721-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">2721 Wilshire</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> and, peering above it, a tower of the Shoreham Hotel on Carondelet Street; the towered, darker-appearing Hershey Arms, opened in 1907, is next to the right, followed by </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/2702-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">2702 Wilshire</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/2706-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">2706</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">, and the Dent house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span>ntering the fierce whirlwind of Los Angeles real estate wheelings and dealings on the strength of entertainment industry profits should not seem </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="text-align: center;">unsual—unless perhaps it was done before Hollywood, as in the movies, existed. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Gilbert E. Gardner was an especially pulchritudinous stage actor associated with Oliver Morosco, who had moved his troop down from San Francisco in 1899 to take over the lease of the Burbank Theater downtown on Main Street. Along the way to establishing himself as a noted performer and stage director, Gardner married the equally pretty actress Ida Gertrude Banning, whose family had made a social name for itself in Southern California as well </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">as a fortune, one derived from another kind of stage. The Bannings played a major role in the development of the region, pioneering in horse-drawn transportation of people and freight from the coastal towns—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">later annexed to the city—</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">of San Pedro and Wilmington to inland Los Angeles. Ida became especially successful on the Morosco stage as well as with other troupes. While the couple's earnings no doubt needed a venue for growth, it also seems likely that the Banning connection influenced Gilbert's turn to real estate speculation after he married into the family. And, of course, he and his bride needed a place to live.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Gardners' recent acquisition of a lot at the </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">northeast corner of Wilshire and Benton boulevards overlooking Sunset Park—to be renamed Lafayette Park in 1919—was reported by the <i>Herald</i> on August 10, 1902. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">On July 31, 1904, t</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">he </span><i>Times</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> reported that Gardner had been issued a building permit for a 12-room house to be built on the lot. While their thespian pursuits continued, the Gardners lived at 2721 Wilshire for the next five years. The house was described as being of Moorish design, with arched porches around the west and south sides. Gardner retained his position as director at the Burbank until August 1909, when he resigned to pursue "outside business ventures"—presumably, real estate: After building a number of houses in the neighborhood, by 1912 he had become the vice-president of the California Realty Company. Two months after resigning his position with Morosco, he and Ida sold their corner house and moved to one they had built next door at <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/2715-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2715</a>, seen at far right in the image at top; 2721 for a short time became the property of German-Mexican miner, miller, and banker Miguel Latz, who, perhaps in anticipation of the coming Revolution, appears to have been seeking a foothold in the United States should he decide to leave his home in Magdalena, Sonora.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Latz was arrested on federal charges in July 1918 after correspondence with German officials—as well as a German flag and a picture of the Kaiser—were found in his home. He was long gone from Wilshire Boulevard by this time, however, now living at <a href="http://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2011/10/1200-west-adams-boulevard-please-also.html">1200 West Adams Street</a>, with 2721 Wilshire having by late 1911 come into the possession of Mr. Pearl Hawley Smith, a native Iowan who had made a fortune in coal mining, and his wife Blanche. An auction of the contents of 2721 in April 1920 signaled the departure of the Smiths, and of the house; on October 22, 1921, the Department of Buildings issued </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Rudolf F. Pieper</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> a permit to move it</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> north across the park to Lot 13, Block A of the Occidental Park Tract. Two years later, presumably for investment, Pieper moved a second house to Lot 14 just to his south, this one from Parkview and Seventh streets</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">. Pieper, the president of Peiper Brothers bakery supplies, was still at 517 South Occidental until he died in 1926. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">That year, the Precious Blood Catholic Church had been completed just next door to the south; the institution acquired Pieper's second house for use as its Sunday school. Real estate operator Earl D. Hammack acquired 517, which was renumbered 421 within a few years. Subsequent owners were Miss Florence Crane and then Mrs. Bessie Moore, who converted the house into a duplex in 1949; eventually it was acquired by the church on the corner, which was issued a demolition permit on May 29, 1974, to replace</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> what was once 2721 Wilshire Boulevard with the parking lot for its new parish hall. It was until 2021 that a new building began to be planned for the site; by the fall of 2023 an apartment building, one respectful of the nearly iconic Bryson next door, was nearing completion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">L</span>ocated at the prominent southwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Hoover Street across from Sunset (now Lafayette) Park, 2902 Wilshire Boulevard was the second of five adjacent houses built by developer and contractor S. Tuston Eldridge from 1905 to 1909 and designed by the partnership of M. Paul Martin and Neal D. Barker. Eldridge was issued a building permit for 2902 on January 3, 1906; he then appears to have moved into the house briefly before selling it to real estate operator Amos L. Burbank. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Burbank was himself a developer, in his case of whole towns. In association with Moses Sherman and <a href="http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspot.com/2012/07/please-visit-our-companion-histories.html">Eli P. Clark</a>, he created Hermosa Beach; partnered with Henry E. Huntington, he laid out Huntington Park. H</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">e did not, however, as his 1920 obituary in the </span><i>Times</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> had it, found <i>the</i> city of Burbank.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The family of Amos Burbank and his wife, Mary, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">would occupy 2902 for its entire lifespan, with</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> the couple's three daughters and two sons in and out of the house for various periods of time. Roy Burbank was also in the real estate business, but appears to have operated separately from his father. After Amos died in the house on October 4, 1920, the family retained 2902 even as Wilshire Boulevard commercialized beginning in the early '20s. Tea parlors and dress shops began to open in houses less than 20 years old along Wilshire Boulevard from Westlake Park to at least Vermont Avenue, with towering Bullock's-Wilshire, opening in September 1929, becoming the headstone of the short-lived residential boulevard. Mary Burbank was still listed at 2902 in the 1929 city directory, but by the next year the house was in the hands of Whiting-Mead, a wrecking company, which was issued demolition permits for both it and <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2914-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2914</a> next door on September 16, 1930. A Texaco station would be built on the site almost immediately. In 1936 the station building was moved to the southwest corner of Figueroa Street and Venice Boulevard; by early 1937, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">a Simon's drive-in restaurant opened where the Burbanks' 2902 Wilshire Boulevard had been built 30 years before.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Seen in its very last days before it was replaced by a filling station,<br />2902 Wilshire Boulevard still stands at bottom center above. Bullock's-Wilshire<br />up the street at left and the Town House apartment hotel at right had both opened<br />in September 1929. Appearing at left in the image at the top of the page are the towers<br />of the Hershey Arms, east on Wilshire around the Hoover bend; below is another eastward<br />view with the Bryson and Arcady apartment houses at left on the other side of Lafayette<br />Park, with the Hershey Arms across Wilshire, in early 1945. A Simon's drive-in has<br />now replaced the filling station that had only recently replaced 2902 as well as<br /><a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2914-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2914 Wilshire</a>; <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/2932-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2932</a> is still in place at right, but has only months to stand.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">It appears that William Mines was a man who felt that real estate should never be idle; if even his own home could generate profit above its rising value, he would rent it. Either having moved into a hotel himself if not into an unoccupied listing of his firm, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Mines & Farish, he rented 2914 to Mrs. William E. DeGroot in early 1908. Mrs. DeGroot, the widow of an oil operator, had until recently operated and resided at the exclusive Hinman Hotel downtown, built by her husband five years before. Having sold that building in February for $250,000, she took up residence in the Mines house, but not for long: Adalina Hinman DeGroot, according to the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> "one of the best-known women in this city," died of cancer at 2914 Wilshire on June 10, 1908. D</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">ealing in lots in the many new tracts opening out on Wilshire Boulevard as it was extended and paved toward the sea, Mines wouldn't remain at 2914 for long himself. On June 6, 1911, the </span><i>Los Angeles Herald</i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> reported that he and his wife had sold the house; following fashion, the couple had moved to Normandy Hill and were now domiciled in a new house a half block north of Wilshire at 626 South Kingsley Drive.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The new owner of 2914—yet another short-term-tenant—was Mrs. Melville Hamlin Hudson, widow of a successful Kansas City theatrical manager and theater operator. Mrs. Hudson, as were all recent arrivals in Los Angeles, was confronted with bewildering choices when it came to settling on a new neighborhood. While 2914 Wilshire was barely five years old, its countenance and small lot were already dated by 1911 and traffic was increasing exponentially along the boulevard; b</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">y 1920, the residential development of the westerly Wilshire corridor would be well on its way to eclipsing its easterly reaches and rapidly drawing the local establishment away from the easterly neighborhoods of the West Adams District as well. Two years after moving into 2914, eschewing such developments as <a href="http://windsorsquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/">Windsor Square</a> and <a href="http://fremontplace.blogspot.com/">Fremont Place</a> (both opened in the "West End" in 1911), Mary Hudson settled on gated and glamorous <a href="http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles.com/2011/07/19-mrs-melville-h-hudson-erle-p.html">Berkeley Square</a> in the westerly Adams District.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While there would be single-family diehards such as the Burbanks next door at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2902-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2902</a>, some houses in the old Eldridge row would before long fall to the indignities of being cut up into flats and then becoming commercial; it appears that 2914 suffered the former by 1916, and, eventually, the latter with a chiropractic office known as the Bionopathic Laboratories.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he five houses of similar size and somewhat tardy Victorian character on the south side of Wilshire between Hoover and Commonwealth were all built within a few years of each other by developer S. Tuston Eldridge. The team of M. Paul Martin and Neal D. Barker designed all five; 2920 was the first to go up, building permits for it issued on August 3, 1905. Eldridge built </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2914-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2914</a> the following spring and then his own residence at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/2932-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2932</a> in 1908</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Dr. Edward Rickey Bradley, his wife Virginia, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">and their 10-year-old daughter Gertrude were living in the house by 1907 and would remain for 22 years. Virginia died in 1922, at which point Edward retired from practice and Gertrude and her husband Nicholas Gay moved in. Dr. Bradley died suddenly at home in 1928; the Gays stayed another year before moving to Long Beach. During the '30s, the house at 2920, as with most Wilshire Boulevard houses out toward Western Avenue, was given over to commercial uses. In the case of the Bradley house, this included a chiropractor and an antiques dealer. A permit for its demolition was issued by the city to Simon's Restaurants Incorporated, which had expansion in mind, on July 27, 1945.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Though the commercialization of Wilshire Boulevard had<br />been underway for over 20 years, the Depression and the war years<br />slowed the progress of its turn from residential use on some stretches; a<br />view taken from the Town House at the northwest corner at Commonwealth<br />in 1945 shows the replacement of <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2902-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2902</a> and <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2914-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2914</a> with a Simon's</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">L</span>ocated on the south side of the boulevard between Hoover and Commonwealth, 2932 Wilshire was one of five houses built in a row west from the Hoover corner by developer Septimus Tuston "Tus" Eldridge; a</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">ll five in the row were designed by the partnership of M. Paul Martin and Neal D. Barker. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Eldridge was issued a permit to begin construction of 2932 on August 9, 1906, although work on it did not begin until after the permit was renewed on May 27, 1908. The house was </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to be Eldridge's own home; while it was under construction</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">, he lived two doors east down the row at </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2902-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2902 Wilshire</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">. At the time of his Wilshire project, Eldridge was elected to the first of two terms as a member of the county board of supervisors despite there being some concern over possible conflicts of interest in his refusal to give up his contracting business while in office. Indeed, soon after election, Eldridge was showing signs of corruption, charged with conspiracy regarding the sale of road bonds in 1908 and then investigated for showing favoritism by letting contracts to the Eureka Planing Mill Company, owned by relatives. As with many aggressive city builders of the era, he was defiant, as might be expected of a man whose name appeared on the cornerstone of the old Hall of Records.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Of the Eldridge row, <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2902-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2902</a> and <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2914-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2914</a> had been demolished in 1930. With Depression and war having throttled redevelopment, <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2920-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2920</a> survived until 1945. Postwar, all the action was much farther out on Wilshire and in western Los Angeles, which helped delay the fate of the last two houses of the row; 2932 spent many of these years as a series of voice schools. In 1961, it was the office of a crabgrass-control firm. Finally, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">demolition permits were issued for both 2932 and <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/2942-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2942</a> on the same day, August 23, 1963, and then only a tiny handful of the houses of Wilshire Boulevard's residential era remained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lothier John Bismark Berner bought Lot 10 of the Sunset Park Tract in February 1905, six </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">months after marrying Elizabeth Rath. Train & Williams, one of Los Angeles's top firms, was commissioned to design 2966 Wilshire for the site; the Department of Buildings issued permits to begin construction on October 22, 1906. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Describing "beauty in Elizabethan style"—referring to the house, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">not to Mrs. Rath—the <i>Los Angeles Herald</i> featured it in a story after completion. It was </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">one of many residences on the boulevard and in other new suburban districts that would employ half-timbering; the style, perhaps </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a bid toward antiquity to counteract the newness of the city, became practically a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">boulevard trademark. It was not long after moving in that Mr. Berner was forced to </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">withdraw from his downtown firm, Matheson & Berner, for reasons of ill health. He died of </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a brain tumor at 39 on January 19, 1911. Rather amazingly, Mrs. Berner was still listed </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at 2966 Wilshire in the Los Angeles city directory issued in January 1969, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">giving her the great distinction of having by far the longest tenure on the boulevard by an </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">original builder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Having emigrated from Germany to Iowa before 1870, led by their clergyman father, the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Berner family arrived in Los Angeles in 1893 after years spent at Emanuel F. Berner's </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">callings to Dubuque, Ackley, and Des Moines. Born in 1871, John Berner was employed as a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">shipping clerk at the Des Moines dry goods wholesaler Israel Brothers in the few years </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">before his family's move west. Once in Los Angeles, he joined the well-established and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">highly esteemed Coulter's as a salesman while his father became a pastor with the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Evangelical Association. (Pioneer Los Angeles dry-goods merchant Benjamin F. Coulter was </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">also a minister of evangelical stripe; perhaps there was some sort of evangelical/dry-</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">goods mafia.) In the immigrant clannishness of the day—and today—the Reverend Berner and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">his wife naturally kept their family close. Their children, including John, remained at home </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">well into their 30s</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, first </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at 720 South Olive and then at 942 Wall Street. Kate's widowed sister </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Adelaide Kopp lived with them around the turn of the century, as did assorted nephews. The young men of the family all appear </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to have worked in dry goods or in the furniture business. Emanuel died in 1897; two years </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">later John, sporting a left hand with a crooked finger per the "distinguishing marks" on </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">his voter registration, felt experienced enough after his rigorous Coulter's training to strike out with a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">partner, John L. Matheson, to form the firm of Matheson & Berner, clothiers to men and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">women. Apparently there was more money than you'd think in shirtwaists and suits—or else </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the woman Berner was to soon marry came with a sizable dowry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thirty-one-year-old Elizabeth </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rath was from Iowa herself—Ackley, in fact. The Raths appear to have been</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">considerably </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">richer than the Berners, but given Ackley's tiny size and the closeness of Iowa's German-</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">American community, it seems likely that John Berner knew his fiancée from their younger </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">years. Elizabeth's extended family was in grain and lumber; her father, John, had then turned to </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">banking. In 1891, one of Elizabeth's five brothers, John Washington Rath, had with a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cousin founded the Rath Packing Company in Waterloo, one of the more important and, with </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">its Indian-head trademark, familiar of such American concerns until its demise in 1985. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">John Berner and Elizabeth were married in the summer of 1904, just after his mother </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">died on July 14, and on returning from their honeymoon they moved into their own rather </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">large house at 1356 South Flower Street. Both John and his siblings, and John and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Elizabeth separately and together, bought and sold a number of Los Angeles properties</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;">O</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">ne of Wilshire Boulevard's shyest houses is one that appears loathe to ever having had its picture taken, and one which survives to this day behind a commercial structure put up between it and the curb 40 years after it was built. Following the establishment of Gaylord Wilshire's initial subdivision on the west side of Westlake Park in 1895, the houses strung along the lengthening boulevard would vary in size and grandeur, with some blocks containing as many as five or more houses and others, as in the case of <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/05/2520-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2520 Wilshire</a>, only one. Similarly, the periphery of </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Lafayette (née Sunset) Park saw the building of houses of various sizes; on the south-side block of Wilshire beyond Hoover Street and across from the park was a stretch of five relatively modest, closely spaced late Victorians, after which, from Commonwealth Avenue, the houses got bigger and more varied again. The</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> 75-foot lot in the Sunset Park Tract that businessman Charles R. Hadley bought in August 1904 was the first in the progression west after Commonwealth that was laid out with a larger frontage more in keeping with Mr. Wilshire's original idea of spacious suburban luxury.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Both the towering Bullock's-Wilshire and the Town House (right) were nearing completion in a view<br />west from Commonwealth Avenue. Commerce had taken hold by 1929: The Hadley house at<br />2976 Wilshire, just 24 years old, hides here behind a billboard advertising a Malibu real<br />estate development and other signage, seen close up at top.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Before long, many of</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Charles Ross Hadley, born in Plainfield, Indiana, on January 18, 1868, found his </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">métier </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">in Chicago in what his obituary would describe as the loose-leaf business, a reference to accounting supplies. Once established at Baker-Vawter, an expanding firm dealing in filing devices, printing, and stationery, Hadley married Grace Dodge in Chicago on May 5, 1898, whereupon Baker-Vawter sent him to San Francisco to manage its branch there. Hadley had visited California on business several times previously, including trips to Los Angeles with an eye to further expansion. While the <i>Times</i> reported that he and Grace "took apartments" at the Van Nuys in the winter of 1900, it wasn't until 1903 that a permanent move south was made, now with Charles Jr., born on November 25, 1900, in tow. Managing the Baker-Vawter branch in L.A. for the next five years, Hadley laid the groundwork for his own business, which opened in 1908. In the meantime, he was doing very well as an employee rather than employer; a true Angeleno from the start, he began to invest in suburban real estate. For his own house he chose not only Wilshire Boulevard but a style of architecture popularized in part by another man in the printing trades, Harrison Gray Otis of the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> and <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/2401-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2401 Wilshire</a>. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Buying Lot 11 of the Sunset Park Tract, and, some months later, Lot 12 next door</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to create a larger yard</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">, Hadley commissioned top-tier architects Hudson & Munsell to design a low-profile Mission-style white stucco concoction complete with Alamo gable and arched front porch, a distinct departure from the dark, steeply peaked houses to its east.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Once in their new house, Grace took to entertaining, with newspapers describing her as a charming hostess. Perhaps not unpredictably, it all became a chore after a few years; a young child, a lovely new house in a grand district, parties, and two-month trips to Japan sans husband and son weren't enough for Mrs. Charles R. Hadley of Wilshire Boulevard. Perhaps the hard work involved in building a company kept Charles at the office too much. At any rate, Grace took to locking herself in her bedroom after dinner, and then, according to Charles's divorce petition, she deserted the family altogether in January 1908. After reaching a property settlement out of court in July 1909, Grace was free, and so was Charles, if not their son. Ross, as he was called, stayed with his father, growing up to learn the ins and outs of the Charles R. Hadley Company, which had evolved into a major manufacturing concern producing equipment and systems for the green-eyeshade set. It wasn't all work: Charles acquired "Montgomery Rex" for morning canters around the park, parting with the bay stallion only when an association of Japanese subjects living in America expressed an interest in presenting a gift to Emperor Yoshihito. Nearing 50, Hadley served as an Army captain in France during the Great War. And goodness knows he was into his clubs, belonging to the California, the Jonathan, the Athletic, the Beach, and the Bohemian, to name a few. It wasn't until after 1920 that he remarried.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Sadly, Nell Bradley Hadley would quickly become a widow in 1924 a</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">fter Charles's death of a heart attack at 2976 Wilshire on June 16. Some time after his retreat to Hollywood Cemetery, the house was sold. In line with the beginning of the transition of Wilshire Boulevard from residential to commercial, Mrs. Albert Beck Wenzell, following a stay at <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/w-hile-surprising-number-of-houses-that.html">3002</a>, moved into 2976. Mrs. Wenzell had moved to California from Englewood, New Jersey, after the death of her elder son in 1915 and that of her husband, a painter and noted illustrator of magazines and novels, in 1917. Minnie Wenzell kept the memory of her husband alive in a studio she maintained in the house and, as president of the local MacDowell Club of Applied Arts, entertained frequently with what from their newspaper descriptions sound something like the soporific gatherings of Edward Ryder's in <i>Brideshead Revisited</i> headlined by Miss Gloria Orme-Herrick with her cello and tiny moustache. At Mrs. Wenzell's salons there were sometimes "readings of the Chinese poets" by Mrs. Suzanne Joyce Spear; occasionally things got livelier when strolling musicians and fortune tellers were included in the mix.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Exit Mrs. Wenzell for Wilton Place. Enter the Wilshire Doll House. Still genteel even if turning to trade, this was not the boulevard's first strip club but rather a toy shop and fantasyland where child-size dolls were born. The Stensgaard family—Mary and her grown children, Thorval and Estella—were the midwives, living upstairs. The Doll House moved three doors east to <a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/2932-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2932 Wilshire</a> in 1938; by this time the boulevard was almost purely commercial. The next business to occupy 2976 was a tea room, not in the modern sense but in the mold of the Lady Ann Cavendish, a Prohibition-era speakeasy for society ladies once next door at <a href="https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/3002-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">3002</a>. Presumably not serving hooch, legal or otherwise, Jane Assell's Tea Room served shoppers weary from the rounds of the fashionable clothiers and tailors, florists and art galleries now lining Wilshire, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">some in the old residences that hung on in the face of commerce, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">some in the attractive new retail buildings that were being built on either side of 2976 and up and down the boulevard for miles. Generally these replaced houses that were now barely 40 years old (<a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/2966-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2966</a>, next door to 2976, was a notable exception; it was in use as a residence as late as 1970). In the case of the old Hadley house, however,</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> rather than usurp the entire building itself, the Flam Investment Corporation, its latest owner, stripped off</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> its Mission façade and porch in 1947 and attached the three-story, 75-by-35-foot </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">structure that remains today between house and curb, its blandness not mitigated by its faux dormered roof. (Building to the sidewalk is a pattern that repeats itself in ever-urbanizing Los Angeles today, though with higher, much less charming buildings.)</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And if today you arrive at what has been readdressed primarily as 2974 Wilshire and drive through the opening marked 2978, you will find the 110-year-old house that Charles R. Hadley built, its footprint and bones, at least, largely intact. As for the business-products company Hadley started, perpetuated and grown by his son—it was of substantial enough regional importance to be bought by no less than the Burroughs Corporation—later Unisys—in 1955.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Laura Nash had married Los Angeles window dresser John B. Cornwell in 1898—he would have a number of occupations over the years—which was naturally a factor in her family's move west. Mr. and Mrs. Cornwell and her brother, Arthur, before he married in 1909, all lived at 3001 Wilshire with Mrs. Nash. The </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Times</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Los Angeles Herald</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> reported on the matriarch's social life fairly extensively; she liked to play cards. Aside from bridge parties, the most exciting thing to happen at 3001 over the years was a confrontation with a burglar on April 26, 1911, reported by the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Times</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. John Cornwell, by this time a real-estate salesman, "went to the mat" with the intruder—"that is, the carpet of the best room of the home. They rolled here and there, trying strangle holds, hammerlocks, toe holds, half-Nelsons and plain choke holds." The porch climber fled. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Elizabeth Nash and her daughter and son-in-law were still living at 3001 Wilshire when John Cornwell died on December 21, 1928. Seventeen days later, having played her last game of canasta, Mrs. Nash followed suit. Despite the double blow and the din of trade out front, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Laura Nash Cornwell remained alone at 3001 with servants for several more years. While the commercialization of the boulevard had been under way for a decade, it was after the </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">September 1929</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> opening </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a half-block west </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of Bullock's-Wilshire that the "old" houses along the thoroughfare—most not much more than 20 years old—fell like dominoes. Finally deciding to sell the house as the Depression deepened, Laura moved to a flat at the Wilshire View apartments a few doors up Virgil Avenue, where she remained until at least 1940 (she died in 1963). The commercial interests to whom she had </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">sold 3001 were issued </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">a demolition permit on June 21, 1935, soon after which the house disappeared forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>hile a photographic image of Giles Kellogg—Williams alumnus, attorney, oil-company executive, clubman, and evangelistic Presbyterian—remains elusive, a clear one of his house has been almost as hard to find. The image above, which appeared in the <i>Los Angeles Express</i> on October 28, 1905, will have to suffice to illustrate Hudson & Munsell's design for Kellogg completed that year on Lot 13 of the Sunset Park Tract.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A native of Troy, New York, Kellogg went west in 1879 at the age of 24 for his health, which was apparently unsuited to harsh winters. Starting as an auditor for the Santa Fé railroad, he settled in San Diego. After participating in the development of Coronado Island, he became associated with Union Oil in Los Angeles. As Union's secretary, his place in the world ordained by the tenets of Calvinism, Kellogg lay-preached and served as the head of the city rescue mission as he banked his shekels and invested in real estate. The two-story house he built at 3002 Wilshire for his wife Annabella—also a native of Troy—and their four children would remain his primary residence until he died suddenly at his summer home in Coronado on April 5, 1916. </span>After her husband's death, Mrs. Kellogg began to spend more time near San Diego; she appears to have rented 3002 during 1917 to Chester A. Shephard, a distributor of Stewart trucks and McFarlan automobiles. Mrs. Kellogg's move to her house at 1200 4th Street in Coronado became permanent by 1920; she died there on December 16, 1941. </span>That the residential nature of Wilshire Boulevard was short-lived is demonstrated by the Kelloggs'</span> Los Angeles property, which, apparently retained by the family and rented, was given over to commerce less than 15 years after it was built. The boulevard would become a destination of well-heeled matrons even before Bullock's-Wilshire opened in September 1929; it appears that dealers in art took space in 3002 as early as 1921. By 1923, shops had opened in the many of the houses on both sides of Lafayette Park, as well as tea rooms to feed the flocks of shoppers and gallerygoers. To feed and, as it would turn out, illegally "inspirit" thirsty matrons: The Lady Ann Cavendish Tea Room, in operation at 3002 by the fall of 1923, was busted in March 1926 as a ladies' daytime speakeasy. Rushing in on "Society ladies sipping Oolong," Federal agents seized a sizable still and 4,400 gallons of mash and moonshine. While the fun lasted, </span>Mrs. Albert Beck Wenzell, widow of the painter and noted illustrator, kept the memory of her husband alive in a studio and salon she maintained in rooms at 3002—perhaps capitalizing on the rash purchases of tipsy shoppers—before moving just next door to </span><a href="http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogspot.com/2013/06/2976-wilshire-boulevard-please-see-our.html">2976</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Giles Kellogg's house seems to have gone missing from</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Wilshire </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Boulevard with as little notice as its arrival. A photograph taken in 1927 from the two-blocks distant corner of Hoover Street reveals what appears to be the tiniest peak of 3002's roof, parallel to the street; another from a block closer taken as Bullock's-</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wilshire </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and the Town House were nearing completion in the early fall of 1929 reveals an empty lot. A late-August auction had emptied the Kellogg house; on September 9, the Department of Building and Safety issued a permit for its demolition. Within a few months, construction began on the building that would take up both the lot on which 3002 had stood as well as the Sunset Park Tract's never-built-on Lot 12 just to its east. T</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he Kellogg Holding Company—presumably Giles's family's venture—had </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hired architect A. Godfrey Bailey to design the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pretty store-and-loft structure that still stands today. The deluxe furniture and decorating firm of</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Cannell & Chaffin announced </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Times</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> on April 27, 1930, that the building was being readied as its new home, to be addressed 3000</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Wilshire </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Boulevard.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Cannell & Chaffin </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">would remain in the building for 57 years.</span><br />
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