Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-24
BUILDING IS RAPID
IN PALMA HEIGHTS
Solid Home Development Beyond
Boyle Heights in Delight
full Section

So remarkable has been the substan
tial development in the northeastern
part of the city, keeping pace with all
other localities, that those people who
rode out on the East First street car
line, through Boyle Heights and Bel
Vedere to Palma Heights, adjoining
Belvedere at the foothills, three months
ago, they would hardly recognize it as
the same locality.
The Home Builders of Los Angeles,
who style themselves as the Original
home builders" have greatly added to
the progressiveness in this particular
locality. This organization, with offices
in the Douglas building, Incorporated
in 1905 and survived the recent panic.
The operations of this company have
been chiefly directed to the purchase
and selling of real estate and the build
ing of homes. With this incentive the
company is now equipped with force
of men, each one expert in his particu-
lar department of building, as so far
all homes built by the company have
been along a definite class of substan-
tial and artistic workmanship. The
homes built by these people according
to their own and other peoples plans
are mostly from four to six-room bun
galoWs that are equipped with closets,
screened porches bath room, instan-
taneous heater, fireplace, closets, toilet,
basin, buffet, gas and electric connec-
tions, electric fixtures, and in fact all
the modern conVeniences desired by the
particular housewives. These homes
are sold from $500 to $2500, according
to location and the same as rent plan
has kept the company continually busy
supplying the great demand for homes
that is adding to the growth of a
Greater Los Angeles.
The lots in their Palma Heights tract
average 50x1321b feet. They have ce-
ment sidewalks, and the streets are
curbed. Immediately after a home is
completed the front is leveled or sloped
to serve as a lawn. The streets in this
company's tract show an artistic bor-
der of palm, pepper and other trees
that have been placed here to add to
the attractiveness and value of this
particular locality.
The car service, one Of the best, one
block east of the tract, beginning at
Michigan avenue and extending to the
foothills, enables one to reach First and
Main streets in twenty-three minutes,
and one has not long to wait for a car.
Many physicians claim that from a
climatic standpoint this is the health
lest locality in Los Angeles.
TEN HOMES BUILT
During the past three months, Home
Builders of Los Angeles has built and
sold ten houses valued at the total of
$21, ,495. These sales were made to
Maria Ohmstede, four-room bungalow,
4005 East Michigan, $3.50; John Heden-
berg, five-room bungalow, 21S North
Townsend, $1,000; G. G. Stockton, five
room bungalow, 222 North Townsend,
$4,000; Henry Guenthart, five-room bun
galow, S19 North Townsend, $2445; Ruth
Schaefie five-room bungalow, 344 North
Townsend, $1,000; W. N. Mowatt, four
room bungalow, 355 North Townsend,
$4,000; NJ. S. Franklin, four-room bum
galow, 359 North Townsend, $2150;
Joseph Berger, five-room bungalow, 315
North Hicks, $21OO; B. F. Loviner, five
room bungalow, 351 North Rowan,
$3.50; e. M. Walker, five-room bunga-
low, $40 North Townsend, $240O.
Home Builders of Los Angeles, be-
sides these sales, has under construc
tion a five-room bungalow at $40 North
Hicks street, five-room bungalow at
S67 North Townsend street, five-room
bungalow at 1926 North Hicks street,
four-room bungalow at 329 North Hicks
street and five-room bungalow at 1886
North Hicks street. Several prospec
tive purchasers are waiting to close
deals as soon as these jobs are COM
pleted.
Well sanded and oiled streets, bor-
dered by trees and flowers, gradually
slope from the foothills south. The
company has about twenty more lots
in this tract on which they will build
as soon as the present active operations
are completed. 1t is significant that
the Home Builders of Los Angeles has
never been obliged to take back a
house since being in business during
the past five years. The purchasers
are a respectable class of people who
love homes and are ambitious to get
along in the world and eventually be
able to call home their own. Occa-
sonally the company is called upon to
build on lots owned by people in other
localities. Several of their homes are
shown to give an idea of the actual |
appearances of these attractive resi- |
dences.
1t is not generally known that a |
strict policy of this company is that |
it will not sell home to a drunkard |
or one who is not of the best standing. |
Every buyer is invited to look into the |
thorough construction of the home |
while being constructed. 1t sells on |
long time contracts or terms same as
rent. The monthly payments include |
taxes, interest, fire insurance and all |
assessments. 1t protects buyers by |
remedyng without charge any roof |
leaks or other defects which might |
develop in it's houses, and thereby
guaranteeing it's construction in those
particulars.
Among other features in the con-
Struction of it's homes are white enamel |
in bath room, plastered walls and cell
ing tinted in colors desired. and other
such as bookcases shelly
ing and buffets. There is an inside |
walk leading to and about each house
and a hydrant in the front and rear.
The water consists of pure artesian and |
is far superior to the ordinary city |
water generally consumed.
Close to the tract is school, |
churches, stores. and in every way this
particular locality is so well favored |
that it is not surprising to note the |
greatly increased demand for homes |
in the Palma Heights tract.
The greatly increased building opera
tions of a pumber of other companies |
beyond and not far from this exclusive |
tract handled by the Home Builders of |
Los Angeles greatly adds to the new
ness and picturesqueness of this local |
ity, as no improvements are stinted and |
every building in course of construction
is adding to the value of the homes al
ready purchased by others.
1t will not be long before the foot
hills to the north of the Palma Heights
tract will be built up, and Home Build
ers' purchasers of homes will naturally |
enjoy an added pleasure in their own |
Even now there is common
talk about the Brooklyn avenue carline |
having to be extended to this locality |
in order n accommodate the OidlU in