1900 LA City Directory:
fold3.com
1950 Sanborn Map, with north at the top:
ProQuest via LAPL
10 Chester Place, November 2010. You can see a tiny bit of the octagonal Garden House behind the left edge of the residence:
Kansas Sebastian @ flickr
Here's a good look at the Garden House:
Kansas Sebastian @ flickr
And here's one more view of the front:
Kansas Sebastian @ flickr
For a contemporary aerial view of 10 Chester Place,
click here.
1907 Sanborn Map:
ProQuest via LAPL
10 Chester Place, c. 1902, with the Garden House apparently under construction at left. I've read elsewhere that
Theodore Eisen was the architect for this house; I don't know who should be credited:
The Inland Architect and News Record, Feb 1903 Vol 41 No 1 @
Hathitrust
More information on 10 Chester Place:
Chester Place Historic District Contributor
This building includes “[f]eatures associated with the Shingle style … in this large, 2-1/2 story house.
In the large, front-facing (west) gable a squared Palladian vent is set over a third story balcony. The
balcony is recessed behind a slightly pointed archway, and has a shingled railing with square cutouts.
Shingles face the gable, which is jettied on brackets over the second story, and are laid in curving
courses around the balcony. Sawtooth edged shingles outline the gable. The shingle siding of the
upper story contrasts with the rusticated stone of the lower story and the chimney. In the porch
stretching across the north section of the front façade, stone piers, wood brackets and a lattice
railing define the space onto which a handsome wood door opens.
The porch continues over the driveway to become a porte cochere. Dentils and leaded glass distinguish
the house, which also features segmented and squared bays and a tower like bay on the rear (east)
elevation. Overlap siding is used on the lower story on the sides and rear. A lamppost illuminates the
front of the house which is located within the landscaped grounds of Chester Place.”
The William Bayly Residence retains integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and
association. Character-defining features of the building exterior include the large, front-facing (west)
gable with a squared Palladian vent set over a third story balcony, shingled siding, brackets, dormer,
Palladian window with a pointed arch, rusticated stone on the lower story and the chimney, porch,
porte cochere, and a tower like bay on the rear (east) elevation. The building is considered to be a
contributor to the historic district.
Historic Resources Group, 2009 (see p. 24) @
LA City Planning Department