Path through Confederate General Longstreet's homestead on Palm Avenue and Adams Boulevard, ca.1886

Description

Photograph of a path through Confederate General Longstreet's homestead on Palm Avenue and Adams Boulevard, ca.1886. The path is pictured at center, lined by palm trees, taken from Adams Boulevard. At left, the porch of a nearby building can be seen, while in the far distance at center, a two-story mansion is visible.
From a letter to the Herald Express (1940 February 5): "About 1875, Confederate General Longstree acquired the 40 acres on the northeast corner of Figueroa and West Adams streets. He did what was possibly up to that time the most extensive grading job done in Los Angeles. He made a pleasing slope up to where the house was to be built, a slope such as we used to read about in southern love stories. He built a mansion of Southern grandeaur and elegance and made the entrance from West Adams, between the palms which he planted, a southern romance. He planted the whole place with orange trees and it became the showplace of Southern California...".

Title:

Record ID:

chs-m1177

Names & Dates

Created:

[circa] 1886

Creator:

[photographer] C.C. Pierce & Co.

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Architecture, Domestic , Palm Trees , Civil War , Longstreet, James, General , [file heading] Trees , [file heading] Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Adams Boulevard , residential sites

Coverage:

[circa] 1886

Place:

[roadways] Palm Avenue & Adams Boulevard near Grand Avenue
[populated places] West Adams
[cities] Los Angeles
[counties] Los Angeles
[states/provinces] California
[countries] USA

Relationships

Part Of:

[collection] Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
[project] USC

Physical

Type:

images

Format:

glass plate negatives
photographic prints
2 photographs : glass plate negative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 20 cm., 15 x 20 cm.
photographs

Access

Rights:

California Historical Society

Repository:

USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu

Ordering:

Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.

Identifiers

Record ID:

chs-m1177

Source:

[record id] USC-1-1-1-1221
[accession no] 63
[call no] CHS-63
[isla id] S-4364