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Tetsu! It's nice being on the Durand's lawn. I feel like I'm about to do some trick or treating :-)
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Looking again at
e_r's posts on Curlett and Beelman's 1926
Mayflower Hotel on 7th & Witmer and 1905's fairytale
La Parrilla on Witmer and Wilshire caused me to googlemobile around there a bit.
I keep a close watch on the 1901 house at 1314 Wilshire (two doors west of La Parrilla), as I've said before. I can't think of another Victorian home on Wilshire (with a Wilshire Special no less). I'm unaccountably fond of it. I'm convinced it looks Flemish or maybe Swedish (?) Only Wadsworth Chapel in WLA, built in 1900, can lay claim to being an older survivor on Wilshire:
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The Orange Heights home, by then a rooming house, lost its front lawn and porch to street widening in 1932. It also had to be moved back 30":
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South of the Mayflower Hotel there's block-long Linwood Avenue (between Columbia and Hartford) that's got a nice set of houses on it of the 1895-1915 era, plus some newer infill. The big one on the left was built in 1895. Great views of DTLA (& the back of the L-shaped Mayflower Hotel):
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The Westlake and Pico-Union neighborhoods went up quite quickly, once they got going. Farmland turned into gracious middle-class suburbs where the norm was to have several children and a live-in, plus a man to look after the horses. The hammering to put together these big frame homes must have been constant, one can almost hear the echos. (It's been said BTW that stripping so many trees out of the San Gabriels for LA housing added greatly to LA's flooding problem).
This handsome 1895 effort is just around the corner at 762 Columbia. Lots of brackets. Romanesque Revival in wood. It shares an alley with the ACLU on 8th:
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The one on the left is one of the later original ones, built in 1915, at 1316 Linwood. The next one along is 1903 at No. 1322. Someone got the next one over for $135K in 2000 (I've got all the hot RE tips if you happen to be a time-traveler):
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749 Columbia (1900), at the top of the block, is condemned:
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I have a slim hope that the city will make a commitment to save the Westlake/Pico-Union turn-of-the-twentieth-century houses, by giving landlords a break for basic maintenance, rehab and landscaping. They really do make great multi-family homes (two of my kids rent rooms in big, old Pico-Union houses). However, less than ten years ago, these places went for $250K or less. Now, on the whole, they seem to be in the $650K-$950K range, which I'm guessing is land value. They'll probably vanish as quickly as they appeared.
Well, I never. Would you just look at that
https://www.google.com/maps/place/74...4d-118.2696322
A couple of real estate sites on 749 Columbia. A bit of a 'before & after'
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angele...7/home/6932877
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7...20625122_zpid/
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I remember visiting the building when it was a restaurant. I was not well versed in the building's history but knowing a little about the area, it was obvious to this layperson that the building had historical significance. Sadly, I could not tell authentic from set dressing. The table wait was so long that our hosts took us to Victoria Station at Universal City, another "quasi-authentic" theme restaurant/bar. Wonder if anything proceeded that structure. Neither Carl Laemmle nor Victoria Regina were available for comment. 
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