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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I know we've discussed the Friday Morning Club in the past but I don't remember this particular building.
N.E. corner of Adams and Hoover Streets?
http://hdl.huntington.org/
So what to make of that Julia Morgan note card ? What stood at the N.E. corner of Adams & Hoover?
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Progressive Caroline Severance (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Severance), abolitionist and suffragist, started the Friday Morning Club in 1881 at the old Hollenbeck Hotel (SW corner of Spring & 2nd). Severance and her husband lived in a little house at 806 W Adams (now at the SE corner of Severance St). That's only two blocks from Adams and Hoover, so the club may have met in a building there. Severance also started the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles (the Church of the Unity) in 1877 in her home (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_U...of_Los_Angeles), which has been covered extensively on this thread, mostly in excellent posts by
GW
The Church of of the Unity/ First Unitarian Church was moved to the same block as the Friday Morning Club, but facing on Flower, both established there in 1900. The Hotel Figueroa, "the largest project of its kind to be built, financed, owned and operated by women." (
http://losangelesrevisited.blogspot....reet-name.html), was built across from the Friday Morning Club in 1926, two years after the clubhouse had been rebuilt as the Variety Arts Center. Irving Gill, a strong supporter of Progressive causes, including women's rights, had his offices on the west side of Figueroa, opposite the Friday Morning Club. (
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11815) from 1913 to 1928.
There's been a strong Progressive tradition in Los Angeles all along, supporting democracy, including civil rights and equal rights for all. The leaders in the earlier days included Francisco Ramirez, John Frémont, Pio Pico, Hugo Reid, Luis Vignes, Agustin Olvera, Henry T. Hazard and many, many others. They were in conflict with the reactionary contingent, the Chivalry Democrats (mostly settlers from from the American South and the "pure-Spanish-blood" ranch-owning elite), who favored a patriarchal system consisting of an small, self-styled aristocracy and a vast peonage (without a middle class) based on the system in force in Dixie.
Sorry, that really didn't answer your question did it? But you know how I get.
There's another of those guides up on ebay and Abe Books carries them quite often