Photo taken from Orange Street and shows an exterior front view of two Queen Anne style houses built around 1892, on a hill at Bixel and Orange Street (later Wilshire Blvd). The corner house, at 1213 Orange Street, was the residence of George R. and Clara Shatto, and later became the site of Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. George Shatto, a real estate speculator from Michigan, purchased Santa Catalina Island in 1887 for $200,000 and created the settlement that would become Avalon. He was the first owner to try to develop the island into a resort destination at the height of the real estate boom, and can be credited with building Avalon's first hotel and pier. The owner of the house shown on the left of this photograph is unknown.
Shatto, George R.,--1850-1893--Homes and haunts Streets--California--Los Angeles Queen Anne revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
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