60 Fremont Place

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WILSHIRE BOULEVARD   BERKELEY SQUARE    ST. JAMES PARK   
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By the mid 1950s, the last holdouts of West Adams were beginning to throw in the towel; while some Old Angelenos had hung onto longtime family homes in the vicinity of St. James Park and soon-to-be-obliterated Berkeley Square, the last of them were finally starting anew on the far-flung Westside, or where lots were still available in the Mid Wilshire district, somewhat closer to their old haunts. There were still vacant parcels in Fremont Place, which languished for its first nine years or so, filled up rapidly during the '20s, and then settled into its maturity along with the trees planted on its barren parkways in 1911. Two houses rose in the subdivision within a few years of each other in the mid-'50s; while in 1954 Addison Harth's #112 followed the attractive mid-century horizontal ranch-house model prevailing in Brentwood, for instance, Harry F. Brown's #60, completed four years later, made more an effort to fit in with the gables and hip roofs of an older neighborhood. Brown received a permit to begin construction of the house on the southerly portion of Lot 60 from the Department of Building and Safety on November 18, 1957.

 The full story of 60 Fremont Place will be told in due course.

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