Just ran across this shot from the
Times of July 25, 1926. Having always been a fan of John Parkinson, and fascinated by the '20s boom in house moving, I did a double-take. Here is the architect's own house, which wasn't demolished after all. Seems it was
moved. But to where? It's a long haul to Windsor Square/Hancock Park along 6th Street. It's possible, I suppose, but if it still stands, it's probably somewhere along the 6th Street corridor but closer than WS/HP.
USCDL x2
I wrote about this house a while back in
post #6942. Since then I've learned that Parkinson was living at 600 St. Paul Ave by 1901; he was at 688 Wilshire Place by 1915 (later a house that would be in the shadow of his Bullock's-Wilshire) and in Santa Monica by 1921. (Could he have taken his St. Paul house to Wilshire Place?--the picture above maybe be older than the date of the paper it appeared in.) Anyway... I'll be optimistic that it might still stand. Dinner at Romanoff's on me for you and a hundred of your closest friends to the first person who can find it... dead or alive. A couple of other notes--if Parkinson didn't take it with him, 600 became the Liberty Club in 1918, apparently for servicemen. Or maybe something else went up, something multi-unit, say.... another mystery: What was on the lot between Parkinson's house (whenever it was moved off of St. Paul) and the Westinghouse building? Forgive me for thinking out loud here....
EDIT: The house was found, but it's gone again, this time for good: http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.co...tories_12.html