Stimson House | |
Location | 2421 S Figueroa Street Los Angeles, California |
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Coordinates | 34°1′47″N 118°16′30″W / 34.02972°N 118.27500°W |
Built | 1891 |
Architect | Carroll H. Brown, E.D. Elliot |
Architectural style | Richardsonian Romanesque, Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 78000690[1] |
LAHCM No. | 212 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | March 30, 1978 |
Designated LAHCM | May 16, 1979[2] |
Stimson House is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Built in 1891, it was the home of lumber and banking millionaire Thomas Douglas Stimson. During Stimson's lifetime, the house survived a dynamite attack by a blackmailer in 1896. After Stimson's death, the house has been occupied by a brewer who reportedly stored wines and other spirits in the basement, a fraternity house that conducted noisy parties (causing consternation among occupants of neighboring mansions), as student housing for Mount St. Mary's College, and as a convent for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.