Can anyone identify this 1920's house

[jspott]

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/fourmounds&CISOPTR=514&CISOBOX=1&REC=2 I have been trying to find more information on this house all that I know is that it was in Hollywood California, owned by John Vincent Rider in the 1920's and early 1930's and is no longer standing and looks a lot like a Greene and Greene house but I cant find any reference to a rider owning a Greene and Greene house.

 

[Vintage Betty]

What are you looking for?

Not sure if you are looking for the individual or the house??

Try this link and the bottom image on this page, specifically this link - the house looks similar

Vintage Betty

 

[TM]

You might want to contact Pasadena Heritage to see if they have anything about the owner or the house. I agree that it has a Greene & Greene look to it, or maybe just California Craftsman.

http://www.pasadenaheritage.org/

Tony

 

[GWD]

I agree, Pasadena would be the place to start.

 

[jspott]

hollywood blvd.

I meet with the great-great grandson of john rider today and found the address of the house 7218 hollywood blvd. I have a local newspaper article that references john rider as living in hollywood and the los angeles city directory also lists 7218 as his home. His home(mansion) in Dubuque was donated to the city and demolished for a park in 1914, so the house in california was most likely built in 1913 or 1914. The family (rider or burden)was also said to be involved in the early realestate devolepment of hollywood but I have not been able to find any proof of this. I am researching the family history for the one hundred year anniversary of the family estate http://www.fourmounds.org/ where I live and work as the property manager and youth programing director. Thanks for your help.

 

[TM]

Maybe you should try these people:

http://www.hollywoodheritage.org/

Looks like the house is long gone.

Tony

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Well the house was there in 1922.

Mrs. Viola G. Rider appears with that address in the 1922 Who's Who Among the Women of California.



http://www.calarchives4u.com/women/whotxt/400-408.htm

 

[Miss Neecerie]

and having just trolled through about 3 different Greene and Greene archive sites and looked at all the outside drawings for any of the houses they built in Los Angeles (and not in Pasadena or elsewhere) if the picture is indeed the Hollywood Blvd house, its -likely- not a Greene and Greene. Not impossible for it to be, but they have multiple sketches of almost every project they worked on, including -additions- so it would seem odd to have a house that large be completely off their documentation radar.

Another idea, is that this picture was taken in front of a -different- house Mr. Rider lived in in California. Is that possible? The house does -look- so very Greene and Greene, but they built maybe 3-5 houses in Los Angeles and Hollywood and none of them look like a match for this one.

 

[Vintage Betty]

I noticed that too, but you said it better than I ever could.
The Gamble house I posted looks like a modified version of a similar house.
Nice job!

Vintage Betty