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Originally Posted by Beaudry
Cool! Yes, the large shape to the left and down a bit from the pointy tower ( Berke Mansion, up at 2nd and Bunker Hill Avenue) is the Rowan apartment hotel at 122 S Hope. |
1886 LA City Directory @ fold3.com
The building's address was changed to 145 South Bunker Hill in 1890. It was apparently later known
as the Warncliffe Apartments, but I'm not sure when that was. In 1942 it was known as the Anderson
Apartments:
http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...004%2f00000001 (see page 2749)
Here's the complete 1956 photo of the old Berke Mansion at the NW corner of 2nd and Bunker Hill
Avenue that
Beaudry linked to:
001382551 @ CA State Library
This is the old Berke Mansion in June 1954:
411128 @ Huntington Digital Library --
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/8692/rec/1
By February 1, 1957, it was boarded up. That's 137 South Bunker Hill next door:
411248 @ Huntington Digital Library --
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/8812/rec/2