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411 E. Olive Ave.

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Description

This property has a long history of ownership which makes it difficult to say which person was the original landowner:  Mission San Gabriel? Andreas de Duarte? J.D. Bicknell or Thomas Wardall?  For information on Mission San Gabriel and Adreas de Duarte, see the entry for Rancho Azusa de Duarte in the Subdivision Category.  For information on John D. Bicknell, see Addition No 2 to the Monrovia Tract.  Because the last subdivision of the property was by Thomas Wardall, he will be the designated.


The first owner of the house was Montague Graham.  By 1913, many of the empty lots in the subdivision had been filled in with houses.  The footprint of the house at 411  house with the original porch can be seen.  There is no garage or stable on the property.


By 1927, the Graham family have a garage backing up to the alley, but there or no other changes made to the exterior of the house.


The house is a two-story Craftsman house with a steeply pitched roof and one front-facing gable and one side-facing gable.  The exterior siding on the first floor is clapboard, as is the side-facing gable.  The front-facing gable is sided with wood shingles.  There is a shed-roof dormer, facing the street, that has a small pair three-over-one double-hung sash windows and clapboard siding.  Other roof elements include the typical Craftsman elements of exposed rafter tails and overhanging eaves.




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14

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1907

Craftsman

Unknown

Unknown

Yes

No

Thomas Wardell

No

Thomas Wardall's Orange Grove Subdivision

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