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Title: William Powell residence
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Originally built for actor Hobart Bosworth as a Spanish Colonial Revival style residence in 1926, William Powell hired architect James Dolena in 1934 to remodel it into a Georgian style "Hollywood Regency" estate.
Front garden and residence at 809 N. Hillcrest Road in Beverly Hills.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00061547
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (7056) 4x5; L.A.-Residences-Powell, William.
CARL0000065915
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/106352
Subject: Powell, William,--1892-1984--Homes and haunts
Dwellings--California--Beverly Hills
Estates--California--Beverly Hills
Colonial revival (Architecture)--California--Beverly Hills
Gardens--California--Beverly Hills
Lawns--California--Beverly Hills
Trees--California--Beverly Hills
Dolena, James E.,1888-1978
Beverly Hills (Calif.)

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