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Title
Haggarty castle exterior
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1941
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
The J. J. Haggarty Mansion, otherwise known as Castle York, was located at 3330 W. Adams Blvd. in the fashionable West Adams section of Los Angeles. The building, of Norman Gothic architecture, was built at a cost of $100,000. Frontage was of 125 feet on south side of Adams and extended back to a depth of 500 feet. Structure itself was 92x91 feet in size. A tower planned after one of the famous towers of Windsor castle, stood forty feet in height and twenty feet in diameter rising at the northwest corner of the building. A second tower, twelve feet in diameter and fifty feet high, at the northeast corner, was copied after a famous castle in Yorkshire. The interior consisted of living room, organ loft, dining room, billiard room, sixteen bedrooms, servants' quarters, kitchens, pantries and china closets, along with numerous porches, balconies, gardens, and barns. Haggarty Mansion has since been demolished.
Photograph caption dated July 1, 1941 reads, "Here is the red-brick, turreted Haggarty castle on West Adams boulevard, one of Los Angeles' landmark mansions, which was being emptied today with the sale of its rich furnishings from the Old World. The house was the home of J. J. Haggarty, department store owner, and his widow, Mrs. Bertha M. Haggarty."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00096215
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 105.
CARL0005065778
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33514
Subject
Haggarty, J. J.--Homes and haunts
Dwellings--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Gothic revival (Architecture)--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
West Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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