Interior view of the art studio or gallery of the Paul deLongpre residence, Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, ca.1905 (CHS-5048)

Interior view of the art studio or gallery of the Paul deLongpre residence, Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, ca.1905
Photograph of an interior view of the art studio or gallery of the Paul de Longpré residence — at Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, Hollywood, ca.1905.
The decorative inlaid wooden floors are partially covered with fancy rugs of the Moorish-style residence. The furniture includes a love seat, coffee table, chairs, a rocking chair and a piano. The crown molding incorporates detailed circular tracery. DeLongpre's paintings of floral still lifes are hanging on the walls, leaning against the walls, and sitting on easels, the floor, or the furniture. Numerious lightbulbs are installed in the grid of the panelled ceiling. Three wood stairs step up into an adjacent room at left.
"A famous French and American flower painter, Paul DeLongpre was the most significant watercolor specialist to arrive in Los Angeles in the late 19th century and became the city's first major still-life painter. It is likely he was the first southern California painter to earn a major national reputation. In 1899, he moved his family to Southern California because he was so impressed by the floral landscapes and flowers he saw. He paid only ten dollars for a huge lot at Cahuenga and Hollywood Boulevard, now part of downtown Hollywood. He built an extravagant Moorish style mansion surrounded by a three-acre lot on which he grew four-thousand rose bushes. This site became the first tourist attraction in Hollywood, and from the gardens, he found many floral still life subjects." -- unknown author.

Call number: CHS-5048
Legacy record ID: chs-m3253; USC-1-1-1-3325
Photographer:


C. C. Pierce
 (1861–1946)  


Alternative names

Charles C.

Description
American photographer

Date of birth/death

22 November 1861 
7 November 1946 

Authority control

: Q61995887
VIAF: 68114291
LCCN: n91108254
WorldCat



creator QS:P170,Q61995887
Filename: CHS-5048
Coverage date: circa 1905
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Hollywood; Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5048
Microfiche number: 1-31-35
Archival file: chs_Volume40/CHS-5048.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): housing areas
Project: USC
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1905
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs; art
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Architecture -- Domestic -- DeLongpre
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Geographic subject (roadway): Hollywood Boulevard; Cahuenga Avenue
Subject (lcsh): Dwellings; Architecture, Domestic; Interior decoration
Subject: DeLongpre, Paul