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Description
Photograph of the Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, 1890. The three-story Victorian-style mansion stands at center, obscured to the left by some plant growth. The foundation is made of mortared brick, on top of which the mansion sports a porch and balcony identical to one another, held up by decorative colonnade. To the right, the mansion bears a cylindrical tower full of windows, annexed to the corner of the houses main structure. Gingerbread shingles cover the roof of each tier of the house. In the background at right, wooden steps can be seen leading up to a hill on which a stack of lumber is resting.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, transparency, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Crocker Dwellings Architecture, Domestic Los Angeles--Architecture--Domestic--Identified by owner--C-K (2 of 4) Los Angeles--Bunker Hill Residential sites
Time Period
1890
Place
-118.24946,34.05325 -118.24834,34.05232 -118.24929,34.0513 -118.2504,34.05223 Bunker Hill Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles California Crocker Mansion Olive Street & 3rd Street USA
Source
1-57-; 1-13-107 [Microfiche number] 6720 [Accession number] CHS-6720 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-4398 [Identifying number]
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