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Originally Posted by rick m
A quick search at Regional History sources on LAPL.org provides the data- with 2 possibilities - E.A. Forrester home either at no. or so. stretch of Lake Street- # is 1121 - this runs parallel and one block west of Alvarado- so either quite close to Echo Park Lake (though awfully hilly thereabouts for this estate) Or more likely several blocks south east of Macarthur Park- then a tony Westlake neighborhood----His firm was downtown on So.Spring St.--All this easily found in the 1909 City Directory - online---
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This would be E.A. Forrester's house at 949 West 7th Street-- where the Statler/Wilshire Grand is about to no longer be. He moved to 1121 S Lake St between 1905 and
1907, and that house still stands:
Google Street View
It's just down the street from the
Lady in a Cage house we've see here before (1132 S. Lake):
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