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Originally Posted by rick m
Lewis Leonard Bradbury has the 35 room manse on Court @ Hill...
His brother John then constructed the city's most costly one at Temple @ Bunker Hill Ave. It is in aerials from the 30s... John's marriage was truncated similar to his wealthier Mexican silver mines baron brother Lewis...
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I think we are referring to 620 W. Temple, which I posted a 1928 photo of two years ago and which you
subsequently identified.
Where did you find that the house was the city's most expensive and that John Bradbury built it?
Anyway, that same 1928 photo is now available in a larger format:
Islandora/UCLA
We can even see a birdcage in the window and the address in the lower left corner:
I found the first listing of 620 W. Temple was in the 1892 LACD. This guy's name was Walter B. (not D.) Cline. In my previous
post on 620 Temple, there is an 1891 reference to Walter Cline's father, William, who seems to have been the first resident of
620 Temple. In 1891 Walter was living at 830 S. Pearl, and appparently after his father William died late that year, Walter moved
to 620 Temple:
1892 LACD @ fold3.com
Walter B. Cline was still at 620 W. Temple through mid-1894:
1894 LACD @ fold3.com
May 18, 1894,
Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL
John Bradbury had moved to 620 W. Temple by November 1894:
November 11, 1894,
Los Angeles Herald @
CDNC
I didn't see John Bradbury in the 1894 LACD, but here he is in 1895:
fold3.com
The 1897 LACD is the last to show John Bradbury at 620 W. Temple. The 1898 LACD does not give his residence address,
and the 1899 LACD shows him living in "Rosario, Sinaloa, Mex."