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Originally Posted by Godzilla
Thank you for your efforts.
On the continuing subject of mystery edifices, while looking for liveries, I noticed this shell of a building that is alleged to have been at Griffith Park. Undated, of course.
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The only mention I could find of a possible match was the Don Antonio Feliz Manor House here:
http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=123 (fourth to last paragraph) which was supposedly demolished in 1921. (this is just a guess - where'd you get the photo?))
The extant Griffith Park adobe (now Park Ranger HQ) was apparently only an outbuilding to the manor:
2012:
the city project/flickr
1900 (hmmmm...this pic looks like it could have been taken the same day as yours):
waterandpower.org
More info:
http://www.laokay.com/halac/RanchoLosFeliz.htm
http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/curse.html
http://mimlay.com/blog1/2007/06/17/t...griffith-park/
BTW, the Griffith family memorial is at the old entrance to Hollywood Forever Cemetery (obelisk at lower left below). Notice how the old administration building (upper right in the photo) got clipped by the "new" wall when the entrance was moved and the present Stiles O Clements-designed administration building was constructed.
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"New" Administation Building:
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There used to be a grand lawn along the whole length of the cemetery wall facing Santa Monica Blvd. The land was sold off (in the 90s?) for a strip mall.
Westwood Memorial Park did this too, only they moved actual
graves back from their Wilshire and Glendon frontages, which is how the cemetery became isolated in the center of the block:
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