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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
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I just discovered where these two houses above were. The home in the distance was 2707 (later renumbered 3507) W. Washington,
on the NW corner of 5th Avenue. The home in the foreground was 1901 S. 4th Avenue, on the SW corner of Washington. The
image above shows the front (with the porch) and left/south (with the chimney) sides of 1901, so the photographer must have
been standing near the lower right corner of the map, looking toward 2707 Washington:
1907 Sanborn @ ProQuest via LAPL (The north and south sides of Washington are on two different maps, which I've edited
together. That's why Washington looks narrower than 5th Avenue.)
While researching something else, I came across a July 1906 article on 2707 Washington Street (later Washington Boulevard).
The article has one interior and one exterior photo of the house:
Here is a close-up of 2707 Washington from the HDL photo, followed by the images of 2707 Washington from the article. When I
saw the grainy image of the outside of 2707 with the article, I compared it to the HDL photo and realized it was the same house:
July 1, 1906,
Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL
This is Mr. Neeland, who first appears on Washington in the
1906 LACD and who last appears there in the
1920 LACD
(he's at 4016 Wilshire in the 1921 and 1922 LACDs):
Integral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911 by William Schell (Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2001), p. 110 @ Google Books
In addition to his railroad activities, Mr. Neeland was also involved in banking, as
we see in the March 1909
Bankers Magazine.
I was unable to find the resolution of this case:
June 10, 1911,
Los Angeles Herald @
CDNC
Anyway, by 1921 the Arlington Heights Methodist Episcopal Church had moved into Neeland's former home. I last found that
church -- at any address -- in the
1926 LACD. The demolition permit for 3507 W. Washington is dated March 29, 1929:
1921 Sanborn Map @ ProQuest via LAPL
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As for 1901 S. 4th Avenue, it was built by Charles P. Coslett, whose first appearance there is in the
1906 LACD; his last is
in
1918 (he's at 711 Westlake in 1920).
Here is 1901 S. 4th Avenue on the 1921 Sanborn (the next building south of 1901 is 1919-1921, just across the alley):
ProQuest via LAPL
About six years after Coslett departed 1901 S. 4th Avenue, his old home -- which rightly or wrongly is numbered 1907
on this September 4, 1924, permit -- was moved to 901 S. Victoria Avenue:
LADBS
So this house (1901 S. 4th Avenue, c. 1907) . . .
photCL_555_06_357 at
Huntington Digital Library, Ernest Marquez Collection
. . . is now this house, 901 S. Victoria Avenue. The overhanging roof is gone, the second floor has been redone, there's an
addition to the left/south side, and most of the front porch has been filled in. But the window pattern to the left of the front
door is the same as before, and there are other similarities:
May 2009 GSV -- The house looks largely the same in the most current view
(March 2018), but a hedge blocks some of the view from the street
This aerial view shows that the chimney and art glass on the left/south side of the house (visible in the photo at the top of this post)
are gone, perhaps removed when the addition to the house was built. I hope some of the
rest of the interior has been preserved:
Google
This looks at 901 S. Victoria from 9th Street. The second floor windows bear a strong resemblance to those in the c. 1907 photo
three images up. That image shows the corner of the open porch at the rear of the second floor which we see here partially enclosed
(it's now totally enclosed). There is a November 22, 1924, building permit for a 16 x 20 wood-and-stucco garage at 901 S. Victoria,
and I'm confident that's what we see here:
May 2009 GSV
In researching this post, I found that if you're traveling west on Washington Blvd., as you cross Arlington Avenue you're in the
2500 block of Washington, and the next street west is 3rd Avenue. However, mid-block, the numbers on Washington change
from 25XX to 32XX, and west of 3rd Avenue is the 3300 block. West Washington Blvd. has no 2600 through 3100 blocks.