Architectural Ramblings, March 5, 1911

236 Adelaide Drive via Google maps’ street view.

March 5, 1911: The Times features the new home of Los Angeles capitalist Isaac Milbank at 236 Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica. According to the clips, Milbank, a former executive of the New York Condensed Milk Co. (later Borden) and Union Oil, only lived here a few years before building an even bigger home at 3340 Country Club Drive, where he was living at the time of his death in 1922 at the age of 58.

Comments

[Steve M.]

I wonder, what ever happened to the chimney?

[lrh]

@Steve: I've looked at quite a few 100-year-old homes in Los Angeles and virtually all of them have lost their brick chimneys in an earthquake.