Anyone have anything on 555 S. Hope St.?
On my return from yet another, and unexpected, sojourn in Hollywood (I go completely incommunicado when I travel), I found in my mailbox this plaintive message: "Would you know if 555 South Hope Street, LA was a private residence or a hotel in 1896?," the cause of her question being family research concerning a relative in Indianapolis and his travels.
My research could only come up with a listing of May 1, 1904, in the
Los Angeles Times telling us, and anyone else who would listen, that "Dr. Emma L. Horton on Friday evening entertained a large number of friends at her residence, No. 555 South Hope street. The decorations were roses, calla lilies and smilax. Solos were rendered by the celebrated singer, Mme. Felkamp, of Chicago and by Mrs. Stewart of Denver," making it seem likely to me that the address was probably a private residence eight years before. --(Oh, yes, there was one other mention of the address in the
Times in the era, but it was somewhere in a long long disordered listing of folks and addresses of the sort which makes me want to gouge my eyes out, which I didn't feel like doing at the moment.)
Here I think, from the 1909 panoramic map of L.A., is the area in question.
555 is perhaps the structure above the "ON" in "DILLON"?