1262 East Adams Boulevard

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  • Built in 1910 on Lot 123 in Grider & Dow's Subdivision of the Briswalter Tract by real estate operator Adam P. Sippel. The permit issued by the Department of Buildings on March 8, 1910, cites Sippel as the owner, architect, and contractor
  • Adam P. Sippel and his family occupied 1262 East Adams briefly after its completion; the house then appears to have been rented to several other families through 1917, including the produce-dealing brothers Jacob and Samuel Wilk, in residence from 1914 to 1917. On October 27, 1914, the Los Angeles Times reported that early the previous morning, before leaving for market, the brothers were held up in their backyard by a "masked highwayman," robbed of five dollars, and locked in the barn. The day before, the Herald reported the incident as taking place out on the sidewalk and added the curious detail that the mask was a white silk handkerchief
  • Charles R. Watson, a painter employed locally by the Pullman Company, and his wife, Lillie, moved into 1262 East Adams in 1918. They were recent arrivals from their native Georgia. Of their two children, their son, Rufus, was in residence during the '20s. Lillie and Charles Watson may have died as early as 1947 and 1948, respectively, though 1262 East Adams was still associated with the family in Los Angeles city directories into the 1970s



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