Redevelopment is coming perilously close to the Victorian house at 1314 Wilshire Blvd (the oldest home left on Wilshire) with its Wilshire Special out front:
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Here's No. 1314 in the late 70s, when I first remember it. It was appreciated then and the Wilshire Special looks terrific too:
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The Isaac Lowmans (who may have been the original residents) entertained at home in April of 1900:
la herald 3 April 1900
In 1903 the Lowmans engaged Hudson and Munsell to build them a new home on the West side of Elden between 10th (Olympic) and 11th Streets on the Westmoreland Tract:
Los Angeles Herald, Number 15, 16 October 1903
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A 1989 three-story apartment building is now at 1029 Elden)
There was a
pretty wedding at No. 1314 in 1904 when it was the Black home. Next, from 1905, up until the early 20s, The Los Angeles Herald carried many ads for furnished rooms, including the attic, to let at 1314 Orange. This is the first of those:
la herald 8 jan 1905
Things got a bit fraught on the evening of 11 January 1908:
la herald
I cannot tell from the
curbed LA article if the apartment building at 1316 and the commercial building at 1330 are coming down too or just the false front masking two homes at 1324. Every since the developers named the "wrong" side of the Harbor "City West", there's been enormous pressure on Westlake. All these buildings were moved back in 1932 to widen what-once-had-been Orange St into Wilshire Blvd. The homes lost their front yards, steps and porches and the apartment building had to be rolled back 15 feet:
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'Round the back:
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La Parrilla at No. 1300 has been discussed here before, so I'm skipping it now.
The scene in 1910:
baist 1910 plate 8
DTLA rolls ever westward. It did it before and is doing it again. A Wilshire Blvd address is still a huge selling point:
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Residential development a block west looks pricey (and uncaring about what happens beyond those trees):
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