Lucy E. Wheeler/Martin E. Weil House
- Architect
- Greene and Greene
- Year
- 1905
- Style
- Craftsman / Bungalow
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
- Collection
- greene & greene’s pasadena
Designed in 1905 by brothers Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene, this two-story, 2,620-square-foot Craftsman home is the only Greene and Greene house left standing in Los Angeles. It was commissioned by Lucy Wheeler, a stenography and mimeograph business owner whose clients included the Greenes themselves.
the building
The 1917 porch. Architects Robert F. Train and Robert E. Williams altered the house in 1917, adding a full-length front porch to the original Craftsman design.
the style
The house is a textbook example of American Craftsman design as practiced by the era's leading firm, Greene and Greene — and today it is the last one of theirs standing in the city of Los Angeles.
More on Craftsman / Bungalowthe architect
Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene were the architect brothers behind this house, one of their few Los Angeles commissions; it survives today as the only Greene and Greene building left in the city.
significance
Designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 991, the house sits in Harvard Heights, part of the West Adams District, a neighborhood that declined after the Santa Monica Freeway cut through it in the 1960s.
nearby
- Frederick Hastings Rindge House
- Ramsay-Durfee Estate
- Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building
- Eugene W. Britt House
- Engine House No. 18
- Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre