Location: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) / Subject: Dwellings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: A small single-story house stretches across the image. It is viewed close-up and at a slight angle from the front. Just left-of-center, a small porch extends towards camera from the front door. A pitched roof caps part of the house. The roof flattens as the house extends out-of-frame at right. A barren lawn stretches in front of the dwelling.
Date:: [circa February 4, 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The small house in the photograph was an adobe built by Don Tomas Urquidez in 1853, later purchased by Harrison Gray Otis. He renamed it "The Outpost" and frequently held social gatherings there. It was located on twelve acres of land at approximately Franklin Ave and Sycamore Ave, adjacent to an area known today as the Outpost Estates.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection