208 East Adams Boulevard

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  • Built in 1908 at 538 North Berendo Street (Lot 21 in the Pioneer Investment and Trust Company's Windermere Park Tract); in 1949, after condemnation for the construction of the Hollywood Freeway, the Craftsman cottage was moved to 208 East Adams Boulevard (Lot 12 in Block A of Shafer & Lanterman's Subdivision of the Montague Tract)
  • The original builders of 538 North Berendo Street, Howard M. and Lottie B. Donnell, had added a two-story, three-family addition to the house in 1922 to create a multi-unit dwelling; this addition was also moved to 208 East Adams Boulevard in 1949, the original complex re-erected there alongside another being moved at the same time from North Ardmore Avenue
  • On December 3, 1948, the Department of Building and Safety issued Helen Ow and Nora Jung, housewives living in the neighborhood who were working with Jewel Homes, an investment firm specializing in the relocation of buildings, a permit to move the two structures at 538 North Brendo Street to 208 East Adams Boulevard. The buildings would sit on the westerly 40 feet of the original 50-by-145-foot Lot 12, its easterly 10 feet having been annexed to Lot 13 to provide a parcel that is today occupied by 214 East Adams, a three-story apartment house moved to the site in 1930. The development of Lot 11 on the west side of 208 East Adams was part of Ow and Jung's plan to create a new apartment complex at 200/208 East Adams. On the same day they received permits to relocate buildings to 208 East Adams, Ow and Jung were issued permits for the relocation of two duplexes from North Ardmore Avenue, also being condemned for the Hollywood Freeway, to Lot 11. These remain in place today alongside 208 East Adams


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