Singleton Court photograph album photCL 270
Suzanne Oatey
The Huntington Library
April 2021
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
reference@huntington.org
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library Photo Archives
Title: Singleton Court photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 270
Physical Description:
1 Volume
(50 photographs)
Date: 1900
Abstract: Photographs of the residence of mining
businessman John Singleton, in West Adams, Los Angeles, California, 1900.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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John Singleton photograph album, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Duncan Andrews, 1984.
John Singleton (1847-1914) was born in Tennessee and later went to California and began a
career in mining. He made his fortune as a partner in the Yellow Aster Mining Company in
Randsburg, Kern County, California, where the Yellow Aster mine was discovered in 1895. In
1900, he purchased an estate in the fashionable West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles,
which he called "Singleton Court." He married Stella Graham in 1901. In 1906, the house
burned down in a fire, leaving only the brick stable building. Singleton died at Yellow
Aster in 1914.
An album of 50 photographs of Singleton Court, the residence of mining businessman John
Singleton, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, California. The home was located at
2400 South Flower Street and was designed by architect Carroll H. Brown in 1887. After
buying the house in 1900, Singleton hired Pasadena photographer William H. Hill to
photograph the house, stable, and garden, and had the 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch prints mounted into
this album. The leather cover is embossed "Singleton Court" and the first page is inscribed:
"A memento, to Stella, from Singleton." The photographs include house exteriors and
furnished interiors, landscaped grounds with tropical plants, a clock tower, a summer house,
a palm-lined driveway, one view of a Mexican employee, a carriage, and one image of
Singleton in formal attire with his two dogs, in front of the house. Singleton's handwritten
captions are throughout the album.
Processed by Huntington Library staff, late-20th century. In 2021, Suzanne Oatey created a
finding aid.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architecture, Domestic -- California -- Los Angeles
Dwellings -- California -- Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
West Adams (Los Angeles,
Calif.)
Photographs
Photograph albums
Andrews, Duncan
Singleton, John, 1847-1914
Hill, William
Henry, 1845-1925
Brown, Carroll H., 1861-1920
Box 1
Singleton Court photograph album