Designed by architect John Hall and erected in 1886, the ornate residence was built at a cost of $45,000 for Mrs. Margaret E. Crocker, widow of Edwin Bryant Crocker, a California Supreme Court Justice. Later is was called the Crocker Mansion Rooming House and became the site of the Elks Club, and finally the Moose Lodge. 3rd Street, looking west, with a close-up view of a streetcar near the 3rd Street Tunnel in Bunker Hill. The conductor stands outside on the streetcar steps as a woman carrying a parasol and a young boy walk by. Edwin B. Crocker's mansion is seen above. Angel's Flight has not yet been built.
Crocker Mansion (Los Angeles, Calif.) Streets--California--Los Angeles Tunnels--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Electric railroads--Cars--California--Los Angeles Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles Hall, John Third Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Third Street Tunnel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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