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Title: Celebration at de Longpre´ residence
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Paul de Longpre´'s home, art galleries and gardens, located on the west side of Cahuenga Blvd. at Hollywood Blvd., were a popular tourist destination for a several years. The artist had at one time an extensive garden of 4,000 roses, which were the subjects of his well known floral paintings. The home was demolished in 1927.
A conductor leads a musical ensemble playing to a large crowd of visitors outside the Mission Revival/Islamic style Hollywood residence of artist Paul de Longpre´. This well attended event celebrated the completion of the Hill Street tunnel in downtown.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00072903
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Hollywood-Residences-De Longpre; N-003-626 8x10
CARL0000076408
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/114715
Subject: Longpre´, Paul de,--1855-1911--Homes and haunts
Dwellings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Parties--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Audiences--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Architecture, Domestic--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences
Architecture, Domestic--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)--Islamic influences
Musical groups--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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