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Title
Exterior view of Paul deLongpre residence and garden, Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, ca.1910
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Paul deLongpre residence and garden, Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, ca.1910. The Moorish-style house stands about three-stories tall with features such as semicircular arches in the arcade, multicurved parapets, and tracery in the balcony rail panels and round eave windows. Plants grow from second-floor window planters at right. There are two towers capped with domes and tall poles that stand high above the roof. Narrow walkways circumnavigate the towers. In front of the house is a well-manicured garden rich with flowers, trees and other vegetation. A dirt road cuts its way through the garden and leads to the house.
"A famous French and American flower painter, Paul DeLongpre was the most significant watercolor specialist to arrive in Los Angeles in the late 19th century and became the city's first major still-life painter. It is likely he was the first southern California painter to earn a major national reputation. In 1899, he moved his family to Southern California because he was so impressed by the floral landscapes and flowers he saw. He paid only ten dollars for a huge lot at Cahuenga and Hollywood Boulevard, now part of downtown Hollywood. He built an extravagant Moorish style mansion surrounded by a three-acre lot on which he grew four-thousand rose bushes. This site became the first tourist attraction in Hollywood, and from the gardens, he found many floral still life subjects." -- unkown author.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3247
USC-1-1-1-3319 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-5041
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3247
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-5041.jpg
Subject
DeLongpre, Paul
Dwellings
Architecture, Domestic
Gardens
Los Angeles--Hollywood--Architecture--Domestic--DeLongpre
Housing areas
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
California
Hollywood Boulevard
Cahuenga Avenue
Hollywood
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-31-30 [Microfiche number]
5041 [Accession number]
CHS-5041 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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