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Description
Photograph of the Santa Monica Boulevard entrance to Hollywood Cemetery, ca.1902-1903. The mission-style stone Otis Carillon building dominates the entrance. A wooden fence surrounds the cemetery at right, a wire fence at left. A dedication engraved below a cupola on a short tower next to an open gate reads "Hollywood Cemetery, 1902", below that "Hollywood Cemetery Association [...] officers".... The carillon was presented to the Cemetery by General Otis in memory of his wife, Eliza A. Otis. Additional information: The tower was dramatically reconfigured in 1904 to house the Eliza Otis (1833-1904) Memorial Bells commissioned by her friends. Circa 1932, the tower, covered porch and gatepost were demolished to make way for a new cemetery wall (the bells were moved to a new bell tower at a new cemetery entrance). The chapel was used as a shed to house the mechanical plant for the irrigation system for more than 60 years, until 1998. The chapel has now been rehabbed as a venue. C. C. Pierce is buried at this cemetery, now called "Hollywood Forever". He was married to Hattie Gower, the youngest of John and Mary Gower's five children (the whole family is buried at Hollywood Forever). In 1899 Mary Gower sold part of the Gower Ranch, which the family had owned since 1869 to James Lankershim (a family friend) and Issac Van Nuys to establish the cemetery.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 20 x 25 cm., 20 x 25 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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