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6733 wedgewood place

6733 Wedgewood Place, was built in 1921 and the architect who was listed on this property was H.J. Whitley, himself. The two-story Mediterranean home has an Italian court with a fountain, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a solarium a one-car garage on Wedgewood Place and another one-car garage in the rear of the home on Whitley Terrace.

One of the earlier homes built in the area, the home was pictured in the newspaper as an introduction to the homes in Whitley Heights.

George S. Green purchased in the home in 1922 and resided there until his death in April of 1946. Green was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1881 and moved to New York in 1905. Green was living in Los Angeles by 1910 and in 1916, he opened the Stratford & Green Bookstore located at 642 S. Main Street which was next door to the Hotel Cecil (opened in 1924). When Green moved to Whitley Heights, he was on his second marriage as his first wife died of uremic poisoning in 1920 and he married again soon after. In 1924, Green opened the Hollywood Stationary Corporation located at 6365 Hollywood Blvd.

Below is the Hollywood Stationary Corporation on Hollywood Blvd. located to the right of the Chop Suey restaurant circa 1930.

One other notable tenant was musician Jerry Luedders (1943-2018) who played the saxophone. Luedders resided in the home in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Trained at the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Harvard University and the Paris Conservatory, Luedders first won critical national acclaim for his premier performances with the Minnesota Orchestra of Ricercari Notturni, a concerto written for him by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. A performance at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., won him a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award. Exceptionally active as a soloist and recitalist, he performed in Japan, China, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Estonia, Russia, Chile, Argentina, France, and throughout the United States. He has also been on the faculty of many colleges and his last position was Chair of the Department of Music at California State University, Northridge.