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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
This what I see: below the red line = Wills home; yellow line = Baker carriage house; green line = Mary Banning home;
purple line = Hancock Banning home @ 416 N. Broadway; above the orange line is the Mary Banning stable/carriage house:
Enlargement of CHS.J3927 at Denver Public Library
Although Milo Baker is listed at the SW [sic?] corner of Fort and Rock in the 1888 city directory, maybe the Baker
home was being built when the 1888 photo was taken? Otherwise, I think we'd see it, as we do below at center.
The 1888 photo seems to show that the pointy-towered Baker carriage house, to the left of the home, was built
first (I've marked the three buildings from the other photo with their same color):
LAPL 00061421 previously posted by me
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The Wills home is at the upper right of this enlargement from an 1888 photo looking west over the plaza toward Fort Hill.
To the left of the Wills home is Milo S. Baker's home under construction at the SE corner of Fort and Rock Streets (later
Broadway and Fort Moore Place):
UCLA/Islandora ("Gated entrance to the plaza, Los Angeles, 1883" [sic])
Also, from far left we see the Andrew Glassell home (round balconies, single tower flanked by chimnies) at 42 (later 352)
Buena Vista, then 44/356 Buena Vista (with the north-facing balconies), and 46-48/362-64 Buena Vista (double hats).
Here's the full photo:
The south side of the Glassell home is near the upper left corner of this enlargement from a c. 1900-02 (?) view
looking north from the court house. The other two Buena Vista homes mentioned above are partially visible to
the north of the Glassell home. A bit of the Plaza and the Pico House can be seen below the upper right corner:
CHS.J3208 at Denver Public Library (previously posted)
The Glassell home was one of four projects on Fort Hill by architect C. H. Brown listed in the August 24, 1886,
Los Angeles Times:
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