Joseph Cather Newsom Archives

#257: San Dimas Hotel / Walker House (San Dimas)

May 20, 2025

In its original incarnation as a hotel, this exuberant 30-room Queen Anne mansion never had a paying guest. But it would house six generations of the Walker family, pioneers of the San Dimas citrus industry. Its upper floor is now occupied by the San Dimas Historical Society, which helps to preserve all the history that happened here.

#166: Miller & Herriott House (University Park)

August 3, 2023

Architecture

The Miller & Herriott House is a primo Eastlake Victorian, built ca. 1890 as a model home for the North University Park neighborhood, near USC. As the oldest standing home in the Harper tract, it has a lot to teach us about how the area has developed over time.

#147: Seaman-Foshay House (University Park)

April 12, 2023

Architecture

This exuberant Queen Anne-Eastlake style Victorian home from 1887 was one of the earliest houses built in the fashionable St. James Park neighborhood, just north of USC. We're not 100% sure who designed it, but we know it was home (at different times) to two of LA's most eminent educators, whose professional lives intertwined in a number of ways.