About a block west from Gelson’s market on Franklin, across from the Bourgeois Pig cafe the Villa Carlotta is now painted… an interesting array of hues and surrounded by foliage. The apartment building was designed by Arthur E. Harvey and built in 1926 by Eleanor Ince (Thomas Ince’s widow) for an upscale Hollywood clientele. Former residents include famed director George Cukor and mogul/producer David O’Selznick.
L.A., I often tell people who say “I hate Los Angeles”, is a city of hidden treasures. To see it properly you have to go on a tour with a natvie. This is one of those treasures. Lovely post Miss Lester.
Do you remember what’s kinda across the street? Another Eleanor Ince building, completed in 1929, a French Normandy Second Empire inflected apartment house that now belongs to…
….to who? Don’t leave me on tender hooks! No I don’t remember it but I am going to look it up.
is it the Chateau Elysee owned by the Church of Scientology!
Spot on!
We’re a couple of swells… When the revolution comes, the Bourgouis Pigs (Cafe) will be first against the wall! Bwahahaha!
I just realized I set a scene from my book there!
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