Added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1991

There’s no shortage of drool-worthy homes in West Adams. In the neighborhoods just north and west of USC, you’ll find half a century’s worth of architectural history straddling the turn of the 20th century, all laid out on walkable streets. There are fine examples of 1880s Queen Anne Victorians and oodles of early 1900s craftsman homes, plus Spanish colonials and Mediterranean revivals from the 1920s. Many were once occupied by the city’s most prominent citizens before the upper crust began crumbling into enclaves like Beverly Hills and Hancock Park. 

Even in the historic house lover’s dream that is West Adams, few collections of homes are as cohesive and intact as the 20th Street Historic District. These 10 residences, comprising nearly the entire south side of the 900 block of 20th Street, were all built in the first decade of the 1900s when the area was at its most fashionable. 

All of these homes were developed by a businessman-builder named Wayman W. Watts (or W. Wayman Watts, according to some records). There’s not too much background info available about the fellow, other than the fact that he’s a Missouri native, but a glowing blurb in the September 3, 1905 issue of the Los Angeles Herald extols the W.W. Watts Improvement Co. as “one of the most useful concerns in the city” for its construction capabilities and low-interest real estate loans. Watts himself is singled out as “one of our most honored and progressive citizens.” He was also an autophile, and made headlines in 1908 for challenging motorists to best his record of traveling 50,000 miles in a 1904 Rambler, with just $200 in upkeep. 

Watts’s company handled the real estate deals concerning the houses in the district. In addition, most of the original building permits for these houses note Watts as both architect and contractor. That combination wasn’t necessarily uncommon at the time. It was uncommon to find a grouping of houses this fine, all developed, designed and built by the same person. While each home’s floorplan and facade is unique, the whole district feels unified thanks to similar setbacks and heights, and the craftsman or shingle style features that they all share.

The National Register nomination for the 20th Street Historic District focuses on the architecture of these 10 homes, and rightly so. But there were also some fascinating characters living there early on, and stories connected to some of these houses that deserve telling. So let’s take a tour of the 900 block of 20th Street, from east to west.

Rogers-Lott House | 912 West 20th Street (1903 / 1908)

We start off with a house that diverges from the pattern of the other nine on the block. This one is the only single-story home in the district, and it’s the only one that fits in with the low, broad “prairie style” model that originated in the plains of the midwest. From the street, all we see is clapboard siding and dingy windows, attached to a deeply-recessed porch, supported by Tuscan columns. It looks like this front part of the house is being used for storage – because there is so much stuff stacked up on the porch, I can’t imagine anyone’s living in there.

The main bungalow section of this house was completed in 1903 for a Mrs. L.L. Rogers and the pianist and music teacher Miss Blanche Rogers (I’m guessing L.L.’s daughter?). Miss Rogers specified a large music room with a small elevated studio space that she could use for chamber music performances and piano lessons; by the end of 1903, the papers were advertising a series of concerts by Rogers held at her studio, the first accompanied by three string players in a program of chamber trios by Mozart and Rubinstein. 

By 1908, Blanche Rogers had married Harry Clifford Lott, a vocalist and choir director, and Wayman W. Watts built the couple a new studio at the rear of the lot. Blanche’s regular concerts continued for decades, and as late as 1931, you could find ads in the paper for Blanche and Harry’s services as voice and piano teachers, with all lessons taking place at their home. 

An extra historical tidbit for my fellow lovers of music and tiles: Blanche Rogers Lott wasn’t the only woman pianist with a long-running series of chamber music salons in LA. Another was Alice Coleman Batchelder, the wife of the famous Pasadena tile maker Ernest A. Batchelder. Blanche and her husband both performed multiple times in Alice’s “Coleman Chamber Concerts” series, which is still running in Pasadena today, over 120 years after Alice Coleman Batchelder founded it.

James Marsh House | 916 West 20th Street (1904)

Here’s a classic two-story craftsman, with shingles on the top floor, clapboard siding on the bottom, more porch columns, and some nicely-carved knee braces supporting the wide overhanging eaves of the roof. Me, I’m a big fan of the tripartite bay window on the top left, a motif that recurs in several of the Watts-designed houses on the street. 

This one was purchased by James Marsh and his wife Catherine in 1905; their daughter Edith Marsh sadly passed away here in 1917, at just 29 years old. Over the years the house was divided into a duplex. The Compass listing shows some signs of remodeling inside, and I gotta imagine that the stucco-covered boxes in the backyard weren’t part of the original plan. But there’s still some nice molding and decorative flair on the door/window frames – it’s a nice mix of now and then. 

Arthur C. Thorpe House | 920 West 20th Street (1905)

This mostly-symmetrical craftsman, styled like a Swiss chalet, boasts not one but TWO sets of bay windows on the top floor, with not just three but FIVE sections on each set. Plus a decorative diamond between the sets, like it’s the house version of Vision, from the Avengers. Take THAT, every other house on the block! The cross-gabled roof gives this one some extra girth, and the imitation stone piers on the porch make it feel earthier, like it’s coming out of the ground. 

Originally this was owned by Dr. Arthur C. Thorpe, a wealthy surgeon who became a captain in the Medical Corps towards the end of WWI. The year before he moved in, Thorpe separated from Anna, his wife of seven years, and in 1908 she sued him for refusing to support her financially despite an agreement that he would. The nasty court case that ensued brought to light a number of alleged indiscretions and odd behaviors on the part of Dr. Thorpe, including the revelation that he treated his patients through hypnotism: 

Thorpe’s second marriage to Mrs. Florence Thorpe fared better, though she had some legal issues of her own. In 1916 Florence bought a black velvet suit from a local clothier called Koenig & Collins. She had to return several times to have it altered, and after it was still not adjusted to her liking, she refused to pay for the final alterations. An arrest warrant was issued, she was charged with petty larceny, and posted the $25 bail. Later she sued Koenig & Collins for $75,000 in damages for tarnishing her reputation, and was granted $1250 for her troubles. So yes. A lawsuit about…a suit. 

George Steckel House | 924 West 20th Street (1905)

Big red here is another chalet-style craftsman like several of its neighbors. This one shares the steep-pitched gables, knee braces and offset entrances of 916 and 920 West 20th, and even has a diamond amidst the second-floor singles just like 920 (though it’s kind of hard to tell, since it’s painted the same color as the rest of the house). The unique feature here is a balcony that seems to interrupt the diagonal roofline that points to the street. I can imagine kids rolling their Hot Wheels down there onto the lawn. 

The first occupant of this home was George Steckel, a prize-winning portrait photographer who the Los Angeles Herald called “the best known and most eminent authority on art photography and color reproduction in Southern California” in a 1906 editorial. 

There is a notice of real estate transfer from Steckel to Wayman W. Watts in a 1905 issue of the Los Angeles Herald, just a few days after Watts filed a building permit for the construction of Steckel’s house. You’d think it’d be the other way around, with Watts transferring the real estate to Steckel, since Steckel was planning to move into the house after it was ready. This may be evidence for the suggestion made in the 20th Street Historic District’s NRHP nomination form, that Steckel had some kind of financial arrangement with W.W. Watts regarding the property in the district.

Steckel moved into the home in late 1905, just a month after marrying his second wife Evangeline Buck, an employee at his photography studio. Evangeline was reportedly a fine singer and frequent soloist in the Trinity Methodist Church choir. The Steckels eventually moved to Covina, and by 1915 the papers were reporting a “Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rowlett Williams” residing at 924.

Ellen I. Lacy House | 928 West 20th Street (1905)

The eight-room, two-story home at 928 West 20th Street follows the same patterns of its neighbors to the east: horizontal clapboard siding on the bottom, shingles up top, with a three-section bay window right in the middle of the gable, supported by some neck braces and an offset porch. The inside really seals the deal on this one: the thing is loaded with old wood beams and built-ins, hardwood floors and multiple fireplaces. Either most of the wood is original, or a new owner spent more on carpentry than they paid for the house – it looks divine, just look at these interior pics.

This one was last sold in 2020 for $1,100,000. Sounds like a nice place to ride out the pandemic. Back in 1905 though, it cost its first owner $6,500. That owner was one Mrs. Ellen I. Lacy, whose family owned the Lacy Manufacturing Company, successful maker of giant industrial pipes and steel tanks. One of Ellen’s relatives was Richard Lacy, the mayor of San Marino for 18 years, after whom Lacy Park is named.

932 West 20th Street (1903)

So here’s a baffling one: the few references to this address in old newspapers suggest a couple mysterious connections to characters we’ve met elsewhere on the block. One story suggests that Mr. & Mrs. A.C. Thorpe, of 920 West 20th Street, also resided at this house just three doors down – there’s a story from January 1906 about a servant at 932, who was charged with theft for stealing an automobile coat from Mrs. Thorpe. And then in 1909, a tiny little death notice pops up for Wayman W. Watts, the developer of the whole district, who supposedly died of tuberculosis at this very house. The following year, whoever’s living there at the time put out an ad for “two young men or young couple” to rent a room in the home. By the ‘60s it was listed on permits as a two-family dwelling.

Could the Thorpes’ address from that 1906 story have been a typo? If indeed they did live at 932, could Watts have been a patient of Dr. Thorpe’s and died while under his care? Or was Watts living at the house just before his death? 

The mystery of this house extends to its lopsided, saltbox-style roofline, as if the right side of it were lopped off in a carpentry accident. Aside from that we’ve got some of Watts’s signature design moves here, with the knee braces below the eaves, a tripartite bay window projecting out, and that asymmetrical porch on the left. There’s also a balustraded balcony on the left side of the second floor for all of your Cyrano de Bergerac-inspired romance needs.  

Stevens-Brown House | 936 West 20th Street (1903)

With its jumble of shapes and volumes, this “transitional Victorian” house sticks out amongst Watts’s creations. The clapboard cladding really accentuates the rigid horizontal aspect of the house, but there’s a playfulness in the shapes of the octagonal turret, and that combo ellipse/triangle pediment atop the porch, that give so much more depth to the facade. To me it looks like a mass of computer-generated polygons, like how a Victorian home would be rendered in Tron.

Here lived the family of Otheman & Elizabeth Stevens. Otheman was a journalist for 40+ years, described in his 1936 obituary as a “war correspondent, drama critic in the theater’s mellow days, and reporter.” He was one of the Los Angeles Examiner’s first journalists, and also wrote for other Hearst publications. His wife Elizabeth Stevens was a pioneering worker in the Red Cross, the originator of the organization’s “salvage department.” Her idea was to collect waste paper, aluminum foil and other recyclable materials, re-sell them at stations around the country and raise money to support America’s involvement in WWI. After her death in 1919, a tree was planted in the Victory Memorial Grove in Elysian Park to honor her efforts in the war.

Otheman Stevens died in 1936 and left his entire estate to his daughter Clarisse. Presumably that included the house at 936 West 20th, as Clarisse and her husband Eltinge Brown are listed as living there with their kids in the 1940 census.

Sarah Roome House | 940 West 20th Street (1904)

When Carson Anderson submitted the 20th Street Historic District for National Register consideration back in 1991, he noted that this house was “largely obscured by a tree and shrubbery in its front yard.” That’s no longer the case: the sight lines are terrific now, and the house holds its position as the grand dame of the district. The shingles are crisp, and cover nearly the entire facade in dark chocolate feathers, even the cylindrical columns supporting the balcony. The dark brown paint is so rich it looks like it just finished drying. The ends of the two front gables flare out like they’re about take off, and the balcony (added in 1915) and varied window projections on both floors complement each other beautifully. Even the tropical landscaping seems carefully considered. This thing is an adventure to look at – and according to a neighbor I spoke with, this household always does up the house for the holidays. Good show. 

The house at 940 West 20th had eight rooms, and also many Roomes: its original occupants were William G. Roome, an electrical engineer, his wife Sarah and their kids. Daughter Beatrice made the paper in 1907, for being injured in a Santa Fe train wreck that killed several people. 

Then in 1911, their son Harry V. Roome got swept up in a dramatic story connected to LA’s highest echelons of power. Harry was an amateur telegraph operator with a home setup. On the evening of July 28, 1911, he got a call from his friend Kenneth Ormiston, also a teenage telegraph enthusiast, who told Harry that he had intercepted an alarming wireless telegraph from the Los Angeles Examiner’s wireless station. The telegraph provided direct evidence that Harrison Gray Otis (publisher of the Los Angeles Times) and William Randolph Hearst (owner of the Los Angeles Herald and Los Angeles Examiner) were colluding to defame Edwin T. Earl (owner of the competing papers the Los Angeles Express and Los Angeles Tribune) with a series of supposed exposés. It’s a pretty incredible story, and of course it was given a full page spread in Earl’s paper the Express:

Must have made some pretty awkward over-the-hedge conversations between Harry Roome and his next-door neighbor Otheman Stevens, a longtime journalist for the Herald, yes?

Harry Roome’s record in the LA papers took a sad turn a couple years later. In 1917 he was included in a list of LA residents joining the Liberty Army, as part of the first group of soldiers drafted into WWI. Then in fall 1918 we learn that he died of his wounds and pneumonia while serving with the Signal Corps in Epinonville, France.

By the mid-1920s, it would seem that the Roomes left the house at 940 West 20th Street. There are stories of another family, the Arredondos, having a baby there in 1927; and throughout the late ‘20s, we see stories of various organizations holding their regular meetings there: a local chapter of the Philanthropic Educational Organization, the Daughters of the Revolution, the Ladies’ Auxiliary, Aerie 312, Fraternal Order of Eagles…it goes on. Never a dull moment at 940. 

Julia R. Young House | 944 West 20th Street (1905)

Here’s another handsome chalet-style craftsman that jumbles the elements we’ve seen further east on the block. From top to bottom, we’ve got the top gable with customary knee braces, and and attic window surrounded by shingles; a clapboard-clad second floor, with a tripartite bay window and a roof terrace that seems to wrap around the west side; diamond-pattern shingles on the decorative band above the porch; and a bottom floor lined with clapboard to each side of the wide entrance door. It’s an architectural parfait! 

Given that this house is named after Julia R. Young, she’s not well-represented in the public record related to this house, but other residents pop up in all sorts of interesting ways. Here’s a brief rundown: 

• 1906: George N. Turner, son of a Standard Oil executive and assistant cashier at the Union Bank of Savings, admits to stealing nearly $20,000 from the bank and falsifying bank records to cover his tracks. One reason he gave for the thievery was “that he had to pay to build his wife a home”a sumptuous residence to build for his bride at No. 944 West Twentieth street.”
• 1907: Walter Hoff Seely, listed in city directories as a manager in the real estate department of The Burck-Gwynn Co., lends his car to a local bond election drive. His given address is 944 West 20th Street.
• 1907: An ad from the July 28, 1907 issue of the Los Angeles Times offers the house for sale by The Burck-Gwynn Co. Hmmm…. 
• 1908: A “lawyer and promoter” named Edmund Burke, residing at 944 West 20th, is accused of embezzling three gold bricks from the Nevada miner A.H. Deahl, after telling Deahl he “wanted to show them to E. L. Doheny.” Burke defends himself in court with every trick in the attorney’s playbook, and claims that a man in his office sold it under an assumed name, without Burke’s knowledge or consent. He is released on his own recognizance and, from what I can tell, never went to jail. 
• 1909: Three assailants attempt to shoot and kill W.B. Elms, manager of the chinaware department of the Broadway Department Store, on his way back to his home at 944 West 20th. Elms escapes, but a coachman named Peter “Guy” Widell is shot four times and killed (presumably by the same attackers) while heading back to his home nearby.
• 1910: Mrs. G.H. Gillons, whose husband manages the LA Oil Refining Co., accidentally bumps into a couple pedestrians while swerving to the curb to avoid two streetcars on Estrella Street. Mrs. Gillons’s address is given as 944 West 20th Street. Three years later, Mr. Gillons’s car is stolen from 6th and Broadway.

• 1914: In better news for the Gillons, the Carlton Music Co. prints an ad in the paper, happily reporting that Mrs. Gillons has purchased one of their competitively-priced ukuleles. The fact that a freakin’ ADVERTISEMENT would print a customer’s address is just beyond my understanding. 
• 1924: Mrs. Mary Young of 944 West 20th Street (no relation to Julia R. Young, as far as I can tell) is quoted in a roundtable on how Los Angelenos feel about women smoking cigarettes. Also quoted: the noted mystic Manly P. Hall, founder of the Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz.

Edson House | 950 West 20th Street (1903)

Like the Rogers-Lott House at 912 West 20th Street, the house at 950 West 20th bucks the craftsman-style norm of the rest of the block. This was one of the first homes built on the W.W. Watts tract, and it exhibits some of the characteristics of an American Foursquare house, with a boxy, mostly symmetrical facade and simple horizontal siding. There are some vestiges of the Victorian era in the balustraded balcony on the top floor, but they’re blended with craftsman touches, like the very wide eaves canopying the second floor and the dormer sticking out of the roof, reminiscent of the “airplane bungalow” type of craftsman home. It’s very much a transitional style, pointing to several different building traditions at once. 

Also like the Rogers-Lott House, this one often had music resounding throughout it. The first occupants were the Edson family, headed up by Charles Farwell Edson, a vocalist of some repute. As a composer, Farwell may be best known for participating in the Art Competition at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles (Czech composer Josef Suk won the only medal that year, for his march “Into a New Life”). He and his wife Katherine Philips Edson held Sunday salons at their home (dubbed “featureful” by the Los Angeles Times in 1911), and also offered up their digs for local music teachers to meet up and organize. 

Katherine Philips Edson made a major impact in politics, as an influential suffragist, labor activist and social reformer. She spent nearly 18 years as an executive officer of the California State Industrial Welfare Commission, working to improve the wages and conditions of women and children in the state. She helped to organize the LA branch of the League of Women Voters, and was a charter member of the Women’s Republican Study Club of LA. She also co-founded the second LA Political Equity League, which ran out of the house at 950 West 20th until it found a permanent home in the Story Building downtown. Among her circle of supporters was President Warren G. Harding, who named her to the advisory committee to a Disarmament Conference in 1911.  

One final story worth sharing about this house, and it’s strange enough that I’ll just share the thing in its entirety: 

Mystery continues to enshroud the identity of the principals in the rather startling incident at the home of Charles F. Edson, 950 West Twentieth street, when two women and a man entered the house and forcibly removed a sixteen-year-old girl who had concealed herself in the house, unknown to the occupants.

“I noticed a woman emerge from the cellar and join a man and woman who were standing in the rare of the house. In answer to a question as to what they desired, they replied that they were searching for a girl who had run away from home, and was seen to enter the house,” said Mrs. Edson today. “One of the women claimed to be the girl’s mother and the other a nurse. The man appeared to have no particular interest. The nurse said the girl, who was suffering from nervous prostration, had been strangely affected by an overdose of medicine. The search through the house provide futile. As they were driving away, to my great surprise I found the girl upstairs. I then called them back. The girl, who carried a heavy cane, refused to go with them. She hung back, and slipped to the floor. Her resistance was so vigorous that finally the woman who claimed to be a nurse took hold of her hair and slapped her twice. 

“Evidently fearing that the girl would use the cane on them, they tied her hands and led her downstairs.”

The police have not been asked to investigate the case. 

– “Unknown Girl Seized by Mysterious Trio,” Los Angeles Evening Express, May 18, 1907

Much about the physical landscape of West Adams has changed in the decades since W. W. Watts developed the 20th Street Historic District. In the ‘60s, numerous homes were taken by eminent domain and demolished to make room for the 10 Freeway, which changed the character of the entire area. On a more local level, all the houses on the north side of the 900 block of 20th Street were demolished in the late 1970s or early 1980s to make way for an industrial facility. At least one home developed by Watt, at 935 West 20th, was among the casualties. A landmark Victorian house on the north side of the street, the Hartman residence at 919 West 20th, burned down separately in 1978 (perhaps a better way to go than being knocked down for a food service facility and parking lot). Over the years many of the wood exteriors of the nearby houses have been covered with stucco, with characterless aluminum sash windows added.

The demographics of West Adams have shifted over the years, too. Originally an enclave for affluent white families, West Adams (or at least, parts of it) became havens for wealthier Black families moving away from Central Avenue after the Supreme Court struck down racially restrictive housing covenants in the late 1940s. Today, the district’s makeup reflects LA’s gradual shift to a majority-Latino city. Look at this 1999 list of owners of historic houses in the West Adams Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. Almost all of the ones on West 20th Street have Spanish surnames. 

With all this change, it’s a minor miracle that the 20th Street Historic District has preserved so much of its early-1900s appearance. Of course the integrity of these homes is just one part of what makes the neighborhood special. The more I researched the district, the more I was struck by how interconnected the families on the block were. The newspapers reported on a 1905 program of madrigals as part of the Lott-Rogers chamber concert series, featuring Charles F. Edson, George Steckel and Harry Clifford Lott on bass; and a visit by Steckel’s sister-in-law, the respected vocalist Lotte Buck-Porterfield, where the Steckels invited over the Lotts and the Thorpes for dinner; and that time that Edson threw himself a birthday party, and his neighbors Harry Clifford Lott, George Steckel and Otheman Stevens were all on the guest list. 

Nowadays, social engagements between neighbors aren’t often covered by the local papers. But I’d like to think that the current residents of the 20th Street Historic District still hang out like the original owners of their houses. I imagine them gathering on the porch, swapping contact info for their favorite shingle manufacturers, maybe harmonizing on a madrigal or two. 

Thanks to Rina Rubenstein and Laura Meyers of the West Adams Heritage Association for confirming the historic boundaries of West Adams

Sources & Recommended Reading

All historic articles via Newspapers.com, unless otherwise noted

+ “25 Years Ago Today – From the Express, April 16, 1906” (Los Angeles Evening Express, April 16, 1931)

+ “916 West 20th Street” (Compass.com)

+ “928 West 20th Street” (Compass.com)

+ “1904 Rambler Car Has Covered Fifty Thousand Miles” (Motor Field, vol. 21, February 1908 – via Google Books)

+ “A Brief History of the Coleman Concerts” (Colemanchambermusic.org)

+ “About West Adams” (West Adams Heritage Association) 

+ “Accused Engineer Evades the Coroner” (Los Angeles Evening Express, March 25, 1907)

+ “Additional Sales Noted” (Los Angeles Evening Express, July 7, 1905)

+ Anderson, Carson: 20th Street Historic District’s NRHP nomination form 

+ “Born.” (Press-Telegram, January 30, 1923)

+ “Burke Makes Grave Charge.” (Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1908)

+ “Chapter AX, P.E.O. Meets in Los Angeles (South Pasadena Courier, April 12, 1927)

+ “Charged with Grand Larceny” (Los Angeles Evening Express, January 30, 1906)

+ “Charles Edson” (Olympedia.org)

+ “Coleman Chamber Concerts Chronology (1904-2023)” (Colemanchambermusic.org, June 16, 2023)

+ “Deaths.” (Los Angeles Times, December 17, 1909)

+ “Deaths with Funeral Announcements” (Los Angeles Times, November 6, 1917)

+ “Fire Chief’s Auto Stolen” (Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1913)

+ “FOR SALE – THERE’S A HANDSOME home at 944 West Twentieth street.” (AD – Los Angeles Times, July 28, 1907)

+ “Forty Vehicles Still Needed” (Los Angeles Herald, June 10, 1907)

+ “Four Shots by Thieves Kill Widell” (Los Angeles Evening Express, November 13, 1909)

+ Frank, Myra & Associates: “University Park HPOZ Historic Survey” (LACity.org, attached to a “Communication from Public” by Jim Childs on 5/31/2023)

+ “George Steckel Marries Miss Buck” (Los Angeles Evening Express, October 6, 1905)

+ “Harry V Roome – Bootlegger/Hero” (Video – RoaringTwentiesRadio on YouTube, February 2, 2025)

+ “He Confesses to the Bank.” (Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1906)

+ “Here’s Sidewalk Jury’s Verdict” (Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, June 10, 1924)

+ “Judges in the Express Amateur Photographic Contest” (Los Angeles Evening Express, June 27, 1905)

+ LA Department of Building and Safety permits (https://ladbsdoc.lacity.org)

+ Los Angeles City Directories (various dates)

+ “Madrigal Concert” (Los Angeles Evening Express, October 21, 1905)

+ “Mrs. Edson Active” (Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1921)

+ “Mrs. Porterfield Sings Tomorrow Night” (The Pomona Daily Review, February 28, 1907)

+ “Music and the Drama” (Los Angeles Evening Express, October 22, 1903)

+ “News in Brief: On Titanic Memorial Committee” (Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1912)

+ “No. 179 – Hartman Residence” (Big Orange Landmarks, September 4, 2008)

+ “Officers of Eagles’ Auxiliary Meet Tuesday” (News-Pilot, September 26, 1928)

+ “Otheman Stevens Rites Set for Tomorrow” (Daily News, May 25, 1936)

+ “Other Sales” (Los Angeles Times, September 6, 1903)

+ “Patriotic Lecture Given” (Pasadena Star-News, May 4, 1927)

+ “Picturesque City Additions” (Los Angeles Herald, September 3, 1905)

+ “Prominent Clubwoman Passes Away” (Evening Vanguard, May 22, 1919)

+ “Rambler Makes Big Mileage Score” (The San Francisco Examiner, January 19, 1908)

+ “Real Estate Transfers” (Los Angeles Herald, March 14, 1905)

+ “Real Estate Transfers” (Los Angeles Herald, June 8, 1905)

+ “Remembering Those Fallen at Victory Memorial Grove” (www.elysianpark.org)

+ “San Francisco Bureau of the Times, March 15” (Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1916)

+ “Society.” (Los Angeles Times, December 17, 1911)

+ “Sues for Divorce on Broken Promise” (Los Angeles Herald, July 4, 1908) 

+ “The Southwest.” (Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1904)

+ “Their New Home” (Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1903)

+ “To Let for Two Young Men” (Ad – Los Angeles Times, September 4, 1910)

+ “Tour of the World for Herald Readers” (Los Angeles Herald, March 19, 1906)

+ “Ukuleles Selling Fast” (Ad – Press-Telegram, July 23, 1914)

+ “Unknown Girl Seized by Mysterious Trio” (Los Angeles Evening Express, May 18, 1907)

+ “Voice” (ad in the Los Angeles Evening Express, March 21, 1931)

+ “Wife Keeps Tab on Husband and Rival” (Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1909)

+ Winship, Sian with Christine Lazzaretto, Kari Fowler, and Heather Goers, Historic Resources Group: “SurveyLA: Los Angeles Citywide Historic Context Statement: Women’s Rights in Los Angeles” (PDF – LACity.gov, October 2018)

+ “Wireless Telegram Exposes Hearst-Otis Plotting” (Los Angeles Evening Express, July 31, 1911)

+ “Woman Vindicated; Gets $1250 Damages” (Los Angeles Evening Express, April 3, 1917)

+ “Women Hit by an Automobile” (Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1910)

+ “Wounds Prove Fatal” (Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1919)