The Belmont Hotel was located where Belmont High School is now, on the SE corner of Beverly Blvd. and Loma Drive
(north of Beverly, Loma turns into Belmont Avenue). The building opened in September 1884 as Ellis Villa College,
reopened as the Belmont Hotel in July 1886, and it burned down on December 16, 1887.
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
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HossC did a great job
merging two 1886 views from the Belmont Hotel into one panoramic photo.
That's Belmont Avenue running north from the cable cars, next to the grocery store:
This is the full left-hand photo from the panorama. If you look at the extreme left edge of the photo, starting in the
lower left corner and working your way up, the first thing you see is sort of a small dark blob (a bush?) with two little
white dots underneath it. There are two lighter blobs/bushes to its right. Directly above the dark blob/bush and just
below the road is the rear half of a horse:
1989-0628 @
CA State Library
Now check out the right edge of this 1886 photo . . . there are the same three blobs/bushes and above them the
whole horse. The house above the horse, across the road, also matches, as do the mountains in the background.
So now we have an even wider 1886 panoramic view from the Belmont Hotel:
1989-0699 @
CA State Library (The Seaver Center has the same photo,
gpf.4871)
At this point I'll ask you to please go back up one photo, to the one with the rear end of the horse at the left edge, and
look at the dark house in the foreground, closest to the camera. Don't worry, I'll wait here until you scroll back down . . . .
In the c. 1890 photo below, you'll see that same house in the lower left corner, to the left of the light pole. I can't read
what's on the pennant on the three-story building, but it sits on the NE corner of what is now Beverly and Belmont:
1989-0456 @
CA State Library ("View in Los Angeles, Cal." by William Henry Fletcher)
That three-story building is not on the 1888 Sanborn, but here it is in 1894, with that distinctive "slice" taken out
of the top two stories. At far left is that dark house (1621 W. 1st Street, as it was then known), and at far right is
the little store that we see in the above photo with its porch sticking out into the street:
ProQuest via LAPL
There are at least two more views from the Belmont Hotel. One of them,
here, doesn't seem to connect
to the left edge of the photo two images above. There is another photo that connects to the left side of
e_r's linked photo, but I can't find it at the moment.