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Originally Posted by Chuckaluck
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The short of it is that this is actually the first house in Chester Place, built by Nathan Vail, set back from and facing Adams Street--Vail also built the present Chester Place gates on Adams as his entrance. In 1885 Vail sold the house to his business partner Charles Silent, who went on to develop part of the property into
St. James Park, and, later, after moving his house out of the way and extending to driveway to 23rd Street, creating Chester Place (named after Silent's son). The ambitious ex-telephone operator Estelle Doheny, apparently fanatical about controlling her environment, eventually bought up all the houses built on CP. She tore down the Vail/Silent house, which had became #4. (One poster here in 2010 has it that the house was torn down to make way for the driveway-turned-street, but this is incorrect.) More info in prior posts.