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All Roads Lead to Whitley Heights On July 13, 1935 the Los Angeles Citizen News indicated that Paramount Studios screenwriter Jack McDermott “has a house near Whitley Heights, Hollywood which can be entered only by a tunnel leading up through a trapdoor beside the master’s bed”. Back then, it was understandable many locations would be…
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Motion Picture Star Auctions Whitley Heights Residence 1928 In June 1927, an L.A. Times advertisement read “SACRIFICE–Motion picture star going to Europe. Must dispose of his beautiful home in Whitley Heights. Must also sell Rolls Royce car and 1 acre in very exclusive section in Beverly Hills”. Six months later, the above advertisement appeared in…
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Hillview’s History
Hillview Apartments In 1917, the Tifal Brothers acquired a building permit to construct a 4-story, 53 unit apartment building on Hollywood Boulevard, just down the hill from Whitley Heights. Originally named “The San Marcos” in 1917 and later “Chester Court” in 1918, William Tifal was loaned $100,000 by a mortgage company to build the new…
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2050 N. las Palmas Avenue
2050 N. Las Palmas Avenue 2050 North Las Palmas Avenue was built in 1933 for owner Amelia Eastman who had been a frequent visitor to Los Angeles and decided to permanently moved to Tinseltown. While there was no architect or contractor listed on the original building permit, she built a 2 story Spanish style duplex,…
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2110 Fairfield Avenue
2110 Fairfield Avenue 2110 Fairfield Avenue was built in 1922 by contractors Blair & Mackinga for owner Eugene Bradley near the end of Fairfield Avenue, just below Rudolph Valentino’s residence (house on left pictured below) on Wedgewood Place. The house sat directly across the street from 2109 Fairfield Avenue where director Louis Lewyn & his…
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6705 Franklin Avenue
6705 Franklin Avenue 6705 Franklin Avenue was described as the first bungalow home to be built in Hollywood by the Los Angeles Times by architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Gray in 1907. The house was the second house to the right of the intersection of Franklin and Highland Avenues and next to the famed WR…
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2104 Las Palmas Avenue
2104 Las Palmas Avenue 2104 Las Palmas Avenue was the oldest home built in Whitley Heights, even before Whitley Heights existed. In 1911, 35 year old Henry Tracy and his wife, Miriam, moved from Berkley where Tracy was a college professor, and rented a house in Hancock Park. Tracy was hired as a science teacher…
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6692 Whitley Terrace
6692 Whitley Terrace 6692 Whitley Terrace was one of the homes that sat on Whitley Terrace near Wedgewood Place that was moved when the Hollywood Freeway was being constructed in the early 1950s. This house was built in 1937 at the location of 6796 Whitley Terrace by architect John Peterson and started as a one…
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