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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Haufe family collection on Hildreth Mansion
Creator:
Haufe, John H.
Creator:
Haufe, Mabel
source:
Leone, Carroll
Identifier/Call Number: 7144
Physical Description:
0.98 Linear Feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1945-1976
Language of Material:
English
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Container: 1
The Haufe family collection on Hildreth Mansion contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and other material documenting
the Hildreth Mansion, a Victorian house built in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles between 1886 and 1889 and restored
by John and Mabel Haufe in the late 1940s as a rooming house named Hopecrest. The house, formerly located at 357 S. Hope Street,
was designed by Joseph C. Newsom and built for Dr. Edward T. Hildreth, a retired Clergyman from Chicago. John and Mabel Haufe
owned the Hildreth Mansion from 1946 to 1952. The house was demolished in 1954 and the parcel was subsequently purchased by
the Redevelopment Authority and eventually incorporated into the Security Pacific Bank headquarters, which later became the
Bank of America Plaza. The collection holds photographs taken by the Haufes during their residence at Hopecrest, as well as
newspaper clippings about the house and the demolition of the Bunker Hill neighborhood. The collection also includes a brief
history of the Hildreth Mansion and its restoration written by John Haufe in 1976.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Carroll Leone (née Haufe), March 8, 2022.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Haufe family collection on Hildreth Mansion, Collection no. 7144, Regional History Collection,
Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Archival resources
Historic buildings -- California -- Los Angeles -- 19th century -- Archival resources
Lodging-houses -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Newspaper clippings
Photographs
Haufe, John H. -- Archives
Haufe, Mabel -- Archives
Leone, Carroll