Whittier (Leland K.) Residence Collection, approximately 1936-1945

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Summary

Title:
Leland K. Whittier residence collection
Dates:
approximately 1936-1945
Abstract:
Correspondence, documents and garden design drawings related to a house built for Leland K. Whittier in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1936. Correspondents include architect Roland Coate and landscape architects Florence Yoch and Lucile Council.
Extent:
3.2 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 oversize folder)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Leland K. Whittier residence collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence, documents and drawings related to a residence built in 1936 for Leland K. Whittier and his wife, Laura L. (Pike) Whittier, in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California. Includes correspondence from architect Roland Coate and landscape architects Florence Yoch and Lucile Council, along with drawings of the garden plan. Also included are invoices and receipts for china, silverware, rugs, light fixtures, furniture and other household decor. The invoices are chiefly addressed to Laura L. Whittier and include receipts for several fur coats. Some notes refer to a decorator, Miss Gordon Kaufmann. Three black-and-white snapshot photographs show the house exterior in 1940, which was an example of American Colonial Revival residential architecture. The house later gained renown as the home of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart from 1952 until Bogart's death in 1957.

Biographical / historical:

Leland Keech Whittier (1903-1984) was the second of four children of American industrialist Mericos H. Whittier (1867-1928) and Joanna E. Williams (1872-1923). Mericos H. Whittier was an American real estate developer and a pioneer in the early California petroleum industry. Leland K. Whittier was born in Los Angeles and was a businessman and philanthropist. He married Laura L. Pike (1902-1979) in 1925.

Acquisition information:
Provenance unknown. In library as of 1999.
Processing information:

Processed by Suzanne Oatey in January 2025.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Suzanne Oatey
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-01-17 16:19:30 -0800 .

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Leland K. Whittier residence collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2129
reference@huntington.org
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