Tag: old hollywood
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2020 Grace Avenue: Gone but not forgotten
2020 Grace Avenue: Gone but not forgotten 2020 Grace Avenue (listed at 6737 Whitley Terrace) was built in 1914 by Charles Kent and his son, Ray Kent as real estate investor, Minnie S. Jewel, purchased 5 acres of land from the Hollywood Grand View Tract on the very top of the hill in Whitley Heights.…
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2014 Grace Avenue
2014 Grace Avenue was built in 1921 by architect A. Burnside Sturgis and retired banker, Charles M. Walworth. Walworth was a bank officer at the First National Bank in Chicago and retired to move to Hollywood and build this house on top of the hill next to actor Francis X. Bushman. The 2-story Mediterranean 1,722…
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6734 Wedgewood Place
6734 Wedgewood Place was built late 1921 and finished in 1922. The Mediterranean three story house has three bedrooms and three bathrooms in which the two lower stories are build on the side of a hill. Actor Edward J. Flanagan (1880-1925) and his wife, Charlotte Ravenscroft, built the six room residence in the 1921 with…
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Las Palmas Trio
2002, 2006 and 2008 Las Palmas Avenue Pictured above, 2006 Las Palmas Avenue is lower left, 2008 Las Palmas is right above (peach colored house) and has no road access, and 2002 Las Palmas is the house on the right. The are a trio of homes that was build by one woman in the 1920’s.…
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6711 Whitley Terrace (1921)
6711 Whitley Terrace (1921) 6711 Whitley Terrace was built in 1921 by architect Arthur S. Barnes and the original owners Richard and Beatrice Green. Richard Green moved to Los Angeles in 1913 and married Beatrice Hansen in 1915. Richard was born in Great Valley, NY and was a civilian representative for the US Government in…
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2041 Grace Avenue
2041 Grace Avenue (1921) 2041 Grace Avenue was built in 1921 by architect H.L. Wilson and owner, Harriet Corey, originally as a 6 room, 2-story home. Below is an advertisement in October of 1922 auctioning the recently built home. The house was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Bennett who added a bedroom and a…
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6611 Emmet Terrace 1921
6611 Emmet Terrace (1921) 6611 Emmet Terrace started to be built in 1921 by Thompson & McMillen. The Mediterranean 2-story home started with three bedrooms and one bathroom. In 1923, the garage was added. In 1928, a bathroom was added to one of the downstairs bedrooms. Finally in 1954, a den was added to the…
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2014 N. Las Palmas
2014 N. Las Palmas Avenue (1921) 2014 N. Las Palmas Avenue, another early home in Whitley Heights, was built in 1921 by architect Arthur S. Barnes. The 2-story, 6 room Mediterranean home, has a square tower overhanging from the lower floor and carved wooden chalet balconies. In 1928, the next owner added one bedroom, one…
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All the Fairfield drama
2139 Fairfield Avenue is another residence that was built in 1920 by architect Arthur S. Barnes. This is one of three homes on Fairfield Avenue that exist today as the others were either relocated or demolished during construction of the 101 Freeway in the 1950’s. The 1,656 square foot 2-story Spanish Colonial home has three…
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If you build it, they will come
If you build it, they will come In the 1920’s, as the entertainment, housing and transportation industries continued to develop in Hollywood, more people moved to the “city of angels”. In 1923, the sign “Hollywoodland” was put up in the Mount Lee, Beachwood Canyon area of the Santa Monica mountains to promote a new housing…
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