Tag: celebrities
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2045 Highland Avenue
2045 Highland Avenue In the early 1900s before the Hollywood Bowl existed, houses existed up and down Highland Avenue near the Cahuenga Pass. 2045 Highland Avenue was actually situated where Chateau Camrose, 6824-6842 Camrose Drive, a 10 unit apartment complex was built in 1939. The American Legion building is just south of where this house…
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2201 Fairfield Avenue
2201 Fairfield Avenue 2201 Fairfield Avenue was a 6 room duplex built in 1915 by owner Edward Delaney who hired architect Henry Hayward to design the building. Unfortunately, Delaney passed away a year later at the age of 39 from tuberculosis. During the 1930s, a screen porch was added to the rear of the property.…
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1824-1826 Grace Avenue
1824-1826 Grace Avenue Welcome to Edmary Court-well that is what owners Edward and Mary Hibbert used to name this 12 unit apartment complex when they built it in 1924. Now called “Gracewood Court”, this Spanish Colonial Revival complex has 2-story buildings which are eligible to be designated as a historic monument. Each apartment has built…
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1830 Grace Avenue
1830 Grace Avenue Right before the legendary El Cabrillo apartments were built on the corner of Grace and Franklin Avenues, Garland Moorhead constructed a 8 unit apartment building right next door in 1926. The good news is the building still exists and qualifies to be designated as a historic building. Simply named “Grace Apartments”, the…
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Esther Ralston
Esther Ralston Cahuenga Boulevard is what divides Whitley Heights and the Hollywood Dell. Before Cahuenga Boulevard was widened in the early 1930s, it was hard to tell where the two neighborhoods split. As a result, many Hollywood reporters got it wrong and often disclosed a celebrity was living in Whitley Heights when they were actually…
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1850 Whitley Avenue
1850 Whitley Avenue What is now the location of The Ardmore, a multi-unit apartment building, which was built in 1962, used to be a 12 bungalow court called Pearl Court which was built in 1916. Architect Lee Campbell, who was responsible for building the Highland Camrose Bungalow Village, was hired by Stephen T. Willis to…
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1747 N. Las Palmas Avenue
1747 North Las Palmas Avenue This 2-story 14 room house was built on the southwest corner of Las Palmas Avenue and Yucca Street in 1913 by owner James W. Dolan by architects Large & LaCasse, where the Dolans lived until Mr. and Mrs. Dolan’s death. Both died a month apart from one another in early…
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1920-1928 N. Highland Avenue
1920-1929 N. Highland Avenue While the French Village used to be located on the northwest corner of North Highland and Cahuenga, on the perimeter of Whitley Heights. On the southwest corner of North Highland and Franklin, was the Highbourne Gardens & Cottages, located at 1920-1962 North Highland Avene. In 1915, Egerton Shore built 22, one…
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2019 Grace Avenue
2019 Grace Avenue 2019 Grace Avenue is a 2,685 square foot mid-century traditional house which was built in 1950 by owner Eva Taweal. Taweal had previously built another Whitley Heights home located at 1987 Whitley Avenue in 1939 with her husband, Louis. Taweal hired engineer E.R. Quam to build this 2-story, 3 bedroom, 4 bathroom…
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1920-1922 Whitley Avenue
1920-1922 Whitley Avenue On Tuesday, April 29, 1919, a fire swept through a residence at 1920 Whitley Avenue, destroying the home, which was built prior to 1913, and all of its contents. The property sat vacant for several years before Lila Jenks purchased the lot and built a triplex in 1921. The building consisted of…
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