Tag: hollywood
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2300-2302 Fairfield Avenue
2300-2302 Fairfield Avenue 2300 Fairfield Avenue was built in 1920 on lot 19 of Lockland Place Tract, close to Cahuenga Blvd. Retired dentist Julia Carman decided to build the 10 room duplex, where each unit had 5 rooms, with 2 bedrooms upstairs. A common chimney was shared for both residences that had their own fireplace…
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Whitley Heights Sets Pace For Hillside Home Builders
Whitley Heights Set Pace For Hillside Home Builders Hollywood Daily Citizen, Monday, April 24, 1922 (page 7) A General View of Whitley Heights together with special views of a few of the 50 splendid residences which help to make this section of Hollywood one of the choicest residential spots and add to the fame of…
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2119 Fairfield Avenue
2119 Fairfield Avenue 2119 Fairfield Avenue was built in 1920 by M.G. Norris, of the R.E. Whitley Company, the sales agent who made “Whitley Heights Famous” according to local newspapers in the 1920s. Norris hired a local carpenter named Bartley S. Crammer to build a 34 x 44, one story Mediterranean house on lot 24,…
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6662 Odin Street
6662 Odin Street 6662 Odin Street was built in 1916 by banker turned real estate broker Earl Dietz who built a 6 room bungalow on the northwest corner of Odin Street which intersected Fairfield Avenue at the time. Above, Fairfield Avenue (originally called Oakwood Avenue) started at Cahuenga Blvd., intersected through Odin Street, near Highland Avenue,…
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2135-2137 Whitley Avenue
2135-2137 Whitley Avenue Dentist turned broker Ernest Long and his wife, Kathryn, built this two-story Spanish duplex in 1924 and had architect Nathan Coleman design the 2,656 square foot residence. 2135 Whitley Avenue is a two-story unit on the right (above the entry is the first door below the cable dish) and 2137 Whitley Avenue is…
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Majestic Heights
Majestic Heights Majestic Heights Tract was located on the 6000 block of Odin Street, west of Highland Avenue, below the High Tower elevator, and across the street from Whitley Heights. In 1919, four people bought this plot of land: Mira Hershey (owner of the Hotel Hollywood), A.E. Houghtelin, Edith H. Teele, and Herbert H. Teele. There were…
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Greta Garbo, Whitley Heights and her homes
Garbo Slept Here The term “Garbo Slept Here” came about in 1941 when a real estate agent listed a house in Brentwood and hung a huge sign in the front of the house stating “GARBO SLEPT HERE”. He eventually took the sign down to ward off the throngs of sight-seers driving by. Today, that phrase is still…
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6613 Odin Street
6613 Odin Street “The Dog and Pony Show” 6613 Odin Street was one of the first homes built in the area of Whitley Heights (before it was the heights) in 1914. Before this area was bulldozed to make way for the Hollywood Freeway, Odin Street used to run from Whitley Terrace (near Cahuenga Blvd.), cross over…
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2214 Fairfield Avenue
2214 Fairfield Avenue 2214 Fairfield Avenue (center above) was built in 1919 by a builder named George Harris who sold the 7 room bungalow to a widow and her family by 1920. Harris described the house in 1920 as: The house was situated in the Lockland Place tract on lot 22 on Fairfield Avenue near Odin…
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1965-1967 Whitley Avenue
1965-1967 Whitley Avenue 1965-1967 Whitley Avenue was built in 1925 by architect L. R. Hubbard for George Taylor (pictured below), who used his long-time friend, Frank H. Walker, as the contractor. In 1923, Taylor had hired Walker and architect, G.R. Evans, to built the 8 unit apartment complex to the right of this property. Taylor,…
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