1534 East Adams Boulevard

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  • Built in 1907 on Lot 63 in Harbert & Butterworth's Adams Street Tract by the Banner Real Estate Company
  • The house appears to have been rental property until acquired in 1910 by retiree John P. Goode and his wife Louise, who until recently had been living in La Cañada. During August 1912, Goode ran a classified advertisement in The Morning Press of Santa Barbara offering 1534, valued at $4,000, in exchange for property in Santa Barbara or Carpenteria. There seem to have been no takers before Goode died in Los Angeles on December 4, 1912. Mrs. Goode left the house soon afterward
  • Following the departure of Louise Goode, 1534 appears to have been occupied by renters, which included John B. Mathews, a Pacific Electric conductor, and, by 1918, the family of Flemon Napoleon Miller, a car cleaner with the Southern Pacific
  • By mid 1922, 1534 East Adams had been acquired by the family of Louisiana natives Lee McPherson and his wife Rosa. McPherson was employed by the city's engineering department, enumerated at 1534 in the 1930 Federal census as a street patcher. Lee McPherson was a widow by 1940 and, still living at 1534, died in Los Angeles on October 9, 1945. The McPherson family retained in the house until 1954
  • The owner cited on a permit issued by the Department of Building and Safety on February 8, 1955, was a C. Nelson; the work permitted was for a new foundation and mudsills
  • Emile and Elizabeth Raine lived in the house from 1955 to 1965, after which it appears to have been unoccupied for some years. It is well maintained as of 2019  
  • 1534 East Adams Boulevard currently has the distinction of being the easternmost residence on the street, which continues through the replacement by industry, largely in the 1960s, of a neighborhood of similar cottages running along two short blocks to Nevin Avenue and, after jogging a block south, along another block to the eastern terminus of Adams Boulevard at Long Beach Avenue



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