Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; 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 June 27, 1951 reads, "Rippled by heat of flames, this is how part of the famous mansion looks today after fire sped through the showplace. One fireman was seriously hurt while fighting blaze. The big house had been sold by Hagagrty [sic] and converted into a rooming house, the Villa Arlington. But in recent months it was up for sale again."
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Haggarty, J. J.--Homes and haunts Dwellings--California--West Adams (Los Angeles) Fire extinction--California--Los Angeles Fires--California--Los Angeles Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--West Adams (Los Angeles) Gothic revival (Architecture)--California--West Adams (Los Angeles) Living rooms--California--Los Angeles West Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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