- Title
- Palm Drive from Singleton Court looking towards Adams Street, Los Angeles, Cal.
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- 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.
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- Physical description
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Streets--California--Los Angeles; Palms--California--Los Angeles; Dwellings--California--Los Angeles;
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- Note
- 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.
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- Collection Location
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.); Adams Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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Palm Drive from Singleton Court looking towards Adams Street, Los Angeles, Cal.
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