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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
The BP for the Kerckhoff Bldg. (558-62 S. Main) that GW noted is dated July 25, 1907. So, e_r, my guess
is that your photo is either from 1906 or c. May-July 1907. How many parades did LA have in the spring
and early summer of 1907? |
So it seems that the Lindsay became the Rosslyn...then the Hart brothers entered the picture, combining the Rosslyn and the Lexington in mid-1906--this is what I found when writing about George Hart's house house at 107 Fremont Place:
"In July 1903, [the Harts] added the original Hotel Rosslyn on Main Street to their holdings. Three years later, they bought the adjacent Hotel Lexington to expand the Rosslyn. Their big move came when they bought the prominent corner just to the south, most recently the site of one of William H. Clune's theaters. Here the Harts built the New Hotel Rosslyn, designed by John Parkinson and opened on November 9, 1914, George's 44th birthday. A proposed northward expansion three years later to replace the old Lexington structure and the original Rosslyn was delayed and then changed in 1922 to instead jump across the street when the Harts leased the southwest corner of Fifth and Main. The New Rosslyn Annex would be connected to the main hotel by passageways under Fifth Street, including one lined with marble for hotel guests. The Harts again called on Parkinson, now partnered with his son Donald, to duplicate the details of the 1914 building. When the New Rosslyn Annex opened on December 29, 1923, it took the title of largest hotel on the Pacific Coast...."
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107 Fremont Place
The Hart brothers making alterations to the Lex/Rosslyn during 1906 would seem to support the 1907 parade date...
A few related items:
Times, April 15, 1906
From the Herald, May 2, 1907
LAHerald May 2, 1907
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