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Originally Posted by rcarlton
858 North La Fayette Park Place, Los Angeles CA. 858 N La Fayette Park Pl is in the Silver Lake neighborhood in Los Angeles, CA and in ZIP Code 90026.
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I knew that street name rang a bell. As I've mentioned here before several times, my mother worked for Utter-McKinley Mortuaries in the 1930s and '40s as Maytor H. McKinley's personal executive secretary.
The grand McKinley mansion was located at
310 Lafayette Park Place. I remember visiting that house many times as a toddler. (My mom and the McKinleys remained good friends all the rest of their lives.)
Here are some excerpts from a magazine article about MHM from 1946. It contains the only picture I have of the now-vanished McKinley mansion (other than the one in my mind's eye). The place was a real palace inside. It was certainly the biggest house I had ever been in, at that age.
Does anyone here have a better/larger picture of this house? I'd guess the most likely candidate for this would be
GaylordWilshire!
Mom at UMM's flagship Viewpark chapel at
3719 West Slauson, in 1941.
I still have the Winton wristwatch Mother is wearing there. It was a gift to her from Mr. McKinley.
-Scott