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Originally Posted by vjp81955
Stone wasn't the only actor of note with connections to Wilton Place. Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters in 1908) lived for much of the 1920s and as late as 1930 with her mother and two older brothers at 138 North Wilton Place; we know this from U.S. Census records ( http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/81610.html). She left by 1931 to marry William Powell.
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Hollywoodland
138 N Wilton Place, rented by Lombard's mother in the '20s, presumably after moving from 154 S Manhattan Place and the appearance of the ad below in the Times of Feb 24, 1924:
LAT
According to the LA County assessor, it was built in 1953; the assessor's records aren't always accurate, though. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the original house, built before 1921 per real-estate atlases (in one of several Westminster Terrace tracts marketed by the Holmes-Walton Co), perhaps rebuilt after a fire. At any rate, there were hundreds of middle-class Colonials just this size and shape built in L.A. in the 'teens ans '20s.
A little larceny by a later tenant of the Lombard house, or at least of the house in the picture:
LAT Aug 22, 1962