I could not resist looking at
dannywa01's "new" neighborhood, S Wilton Place from Pico to Venice in Mid-City:
This is the place in 1910 when Pico Blvd was "Pico Street", W 15th through here was "Dorchester" and Venice was still called "16th Street". Three institutions then dominated the neighborhood:
Baist, plate No. 17, 1910 (detail)
dannywa01's two blocks of S Wilton Place:
Baist, plate No. 17, 1910 (detail)
The Los Angeles Country Club (mentioned
many times on the thread, this is just a tiny recap) was started as the Los Angeles Golf Club in 1897 on land that is now centered on Alvarado Terrace. Too cramped, LACC briefly moved to 16th (Venice) and Hobart, then on to the nearby premises shown on the map below, at the NW corner of Pico and Western, where they built their first 18-hole course. In 1911 LACC decamped to West LA, to a parcel just north of 20th-Century Fox studios, where they remain. The grounds of the club's former premises were platted into house lots and built out.
Baist, plate No. 17, 1910 (detail)
Eleven years later (compare with the map immediately above):
Baist, plate No. 17, 1921 (detail)
This photo taken looking north towards Hollywood up Western from Pico in 1898 gives an idea of the lay of the land before anything was built. Just two years later, LACC will take over an irregularly-shaped parcel on the left, siting their clubhouse near the intersection. After the club departed, this area was converted to residential use and became known as Country Club Park:
cc pierce/usc dl
The same view today:
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"Harvard College", later "Harvard School" and now Harvard-Westlake, (the school has also come up multiple times on the thread) was established, originally as a military school, in 1900 at the site shown on the first map above, at W 16th St (Venice Blvd) and Western. Thirty-seven years later, thwarted in their attempt to move to Westwood, they relocated to the defunct
Hollywood Country Club grounds at the Valley end of Coldwater Canyon. The school's former location is now Western Plaza Shopping Center. There's a big Food 4 Less there, a CVS, a Factory 2U and some other shops.
The original Harvard College/School building, "Harvard Hall", by Arthur Burnette Benton (1900), faced on Western Avenue:
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Originally Posted by Chuckaluck
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Today the site is Western Plaza Shopping Center:
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The Good Shepherd House is a Catholic charity which provided, and still provides, services to women and their children. As part of their mission, they ran
Pelletier Catholic High School for Girls on the northern end of their property from 1905 until 1977. When the school ceased operations, the land was sold to LAUSD.
Pio Pico Middle School is there now and uses two of the historic structures from the former high school. Good Shepherd retreated to the southern end of the property at the corner of Arlington and Venice behind a big hedge. The Sisters continue to maintain a shelter for victims of domestic violence:
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Good Shepherd (SW corner with pool below) now shares its original site with Pio Pico Middle School:
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The streets surrounded by Good Shepherd, LACC and Harvard School were built with large homes of wood and stucco during the first two decades of the last century. Good brick apartments and 4-plexes provided infill in the 1920s. More modern apartments have replaced many of the homes. About twelve of the original houses remain on S Wilton Place, between Pico and Venice, most in good repair.
This one, for example, from 1910 is at No. 1422:
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Another at No.1527, also from 1910, features an unusual roof line:
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One of the 1920s apartments is No. 1310 (1927):
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A generous four-plex (1922) at No. 1321:
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Originally Posted by Tetsu
Thanks to t2 for digging up the building permit.  |
All thx go to
Beaudry. He's the one who so generously gave us the info re building permit searches. I put that one up so he'd know I
do pay attention....sometimes :-)
(now if the city would just cross-reference them by architect & contractor!)