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Palm Drive from Singleton Court looking towards Adams Street, Los Angeles, Cal.
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Identifier
clloy_166
Title
Palm
Drive
from
Singleton
Court
looking
towards
Adams
Street
,
Los
Angeles
,
Cal
.
Creator
Unknown
Date Published
circa
1908
Subject (Topic)
Streets--California--Los
Angeles
;
Palms--California--Los
Angeles
;
Dwellings--California--Los
Angeles
;
Subject (Name)
Singleton
Court
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
Subject (Place)
Los
Angeles
(Calif.)
;
Adams
Avenue
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
Color
;
9
x
14
cm
.
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Country of Creation
DE
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
M
.
Reider
Place of Publication
Los
Angeles
,
Cal
.
Language
eng
Description
A
view
through
an
elaborate
iron
archway
,
looking
toward
the
Singleton
Court
residence
, with its
two
lines
of
palm
trees
lining
the
street
. The
stables
and
clock
tower
,
both
overgrown
with
ivy
, are
just
visible
to the
left
of the
street
.
Historical Background
Singleton
Court
,
located
on
3
1/2
acres
at
2400
South
Flower
Street
in the
West
Adams
district
of
Los
Angeles
, was a
Colonial
Revival
style
home
, and the
residence
of
John
Singleton
.
Singleton
made
his
fortune
as the
president
of the
Yellow
Aster
Mining
Co
. in
Randsburg
,
California
.
Sometime
before
1918
, the
house
was
destroyed
by
fire
,
leaving
only
the
brick
stable
building
. A
later
owner
,
John
Brockman
,
deeded
the
property
to the
Los
Angeles
Orthopaedic
Foundation
, and the
stables
were
converted
into a
clinic
. The
clock
tower
was
removed
to
Brockman's
estate
in
Glendale
.
Between
1880
and
1925
,
West
Adams
was a
fashionable
neighborhood
for the
very
wealthy
, and
many
of
Los
Angeles
'
finest
architects
designed
homes
there.
During
the
1950s
and
1960s
, the
construction
of the
Santa
Monica
and
Harbor
Freeways
resulted
in the
destruction
of
many
historic
buildings
, but in the
1990s
,
three
areas
of
West
Adams
were
designated
as
Historic
Preservation
Overlay
Zones
by the
city
of
Los
Angeles
,
preventing
further
destruction
.
Publisher's Identifier
Publisher's serial number: No. 4415
Additional Notes
Approximate
date
from
postmark
;
Made
in
Germany
.
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
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Collection
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