Tag: early hollywood
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2075 Watsonia Terrace
2075 Watsonia Terrace 2075 Watsonia Terrace was built in 1937 by owner Eleanor Kinsey De Witt by Meyer & Holler. Meyer & Holler, was also known as the Milwaukee Building Company was known for building both the Grauman’s Chinese and Egyptian theaters, Cafe Montmartre, First National Bank of Hollywood, Hollywood Athletic Club and several homes,…
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1825 N. Highland Avenue
1825 N. Highland Avenue 1825 N. Highland Avenue was built in 1902 on the southwest corner of Highland Avenue and Franklin Avenue (now a parking lot due east of the Hollywood United Methodist Church) for Llewellyn James Beynon, who was in the insurance business. Below, the residence could be seen from the hills of Whitley…
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6616 Iris Drive
6616 Iris Drive 6616 Iris Drive was built in 1930 by Edwin G. Bowen Company, a well-known contracting company who had built the St. Andrews Bungalow Court in 1920 and then worked with screenwriter Zane Grey when he started his own production company in 1932. Bowen traveled to Australia in 1936 with Grey to produce…
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6681 Whitley Terrace
6681 Whitley Terrace 6681 Whitley Terrace was built in 1938 by contractor Herman Hemming for an insurance salesman named Sidney Wooley. The two-story Early American house with a Georgian entrance has access both on Whitley Terrace (shown above) and on the second floor in the rear at 2056 Grace Avenue. Since the Los Angeles County…
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1959 Whitley Avenue
1959 Whitley Avenue 1959 Whitley Avenue was built in 1932 by contractor Chester M. Williams who rebuilt the Hollywood Cemetery entrance in the early 1930s. This two bedroom, two bathroom Spanish style home has 1,226 square feet and was built by Nellie Allport for her son, Harold. Nellie and her husband, John, a well-known medical…
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St. Francis Court
St. Francis Court In 1917, the St. Francis Court bungalow courtyard was built 100 feet north of Hollywood Boulevard between Cherokee and Whitley Avenues. Twenty-four bungalows were built composed of Mission and Colonial design that were finished in cement stucco with 8 of the units in chalet style. What was unique about St. Francis Court…
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1979 Grace Avenue
1979 Grace Avenue 1979 Grace Avenue, known as “Whitley Townhomes”, consists of 9 units that were built in 1979, before the Whitley Heights Historic District was adopted by City Counsel in 1992. Unfortunately, the oldest house in Whitley Heights was demolished in order to build the townhomes. This property is located on a large lot…
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6611 Hollywood Boulevard
6611 Hollywood Boulevard A December 7, 1902 article in the Los Angeles Times promotes “The Hollywood Ocean View Tract” indicating that sales have broken all records and that the tract “has no rivals, it has no competitors, only imitators”. Besides putting a photograph of H.J. Whitley’s house in the center, a “high grade mission home”…
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What happened to Whitley’s Hollywood Blvd. house?
What happened to Whitley’s Hollywood Boulevard house? Hobart J. Whitley was known of the “father of Hollywood” and the mastermind behind the creation of Whitley Heights. Hobart, his wife, Margaret, and his son, Ross, moved to Los Angeles from Minnesota in 1894 and stayed at the Westminster Hotel on 6th Street where their daughter Grace…
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2047 Grace Avenue
2047 Grace Avenue 2047 Grace Avenue was built in 1936 by architect John A. Murrey who not only built the City Food Mart that was once located at the corner of Yucca and Argyle in Hollywood. Murrey also secretly built a home for actress Mary Astor and her husband out in Toluca Lake in 1933.…
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