page_title: Henricus Wallace Westlake
hierarchical_section_title: Henricus Wallace Westlake
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), showing a horse and buggy, 1900 Photograph of a view of Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park), showing a horse and buggy, 1900. Two men and a woman are leaning against a mesh-wire fence (foreground) staring into the lake. Behind them are two horses harnessed to a buggy parked on a curvy dirt road. In the buggy there are two women holding umbrellas (one in the front seat, one in the back seat). To the left and right of the dirt road are dense palms and a variety of other trees. Further down the road, several rooftops to houses are visible. In the center and spanning to the right, many different buildings and houses are visible through the dense trees. To the right is the lake. On the other side of the lake, there is a pole standing almost 50 feet tall with ladder rungs leading up to about midway. In the foreground, near the shore of the lake is a gazebo with a model or sculpture of a sail boat perched on top of the roof. People are seen scattered around the lake, particularly near the shores. Call number: CHS-5058 Legacy record ID: chs-m3724; USC-1-1-1-3800 Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 Filename: CHS-5058 Coverage date: 1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 5058 Microfiche number: 1-91- Archival file: chs_Volume43/CHS-5058.tiff Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs&#160;: glass photonegative, photoprint, b&amp;w&#160;; 21 x 26 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): parks Project: USC Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: 1900 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Parks -- Westlake Park (MacArthur Park) Format: glass plate negatives Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles Geographic subject (roadway): 7th Street; Alvarado Street; 6th Street Subject (lcsh): Parks; Lakes; Carriages and carts; Horses Subject: Westlake Park (later MacArthur Park)
context_page_description: Henricus Wallace Westlake was a Canadian physician who moved to Los Angeles, California, around 1888, settled in the rolling hills west of the city and gave his name to both a municipal park and a neighborhood in the city.
  Westlake was born in either Canada or England in June 1858. He was a graduate of the medical department of McGill University in Montreal and also earned diplomas in Edinburgh and Vienna. He moved to Los Angeles in 1888, where he pioneered in building a large home on Burlington Avenue in the empty, rolling hills west of the city. He developed a large medical practice and was also president of the California-Corsica Citron Company and the Westlake-Rommel Oil Company, besides owning mining interests in Arizona. He was also the inventor of at least one medical device.
  He was known as a generous philanthropist who gave large sums to charities. He donated to the city an "unsightly gully" which in the winter filled with storm water and became stagnant, and the land was later developed into Westlake Park, now known as MacArthur Park.
  In 1885 or 1889 he was married to Fannie Farquhar of Canada, who was his only survivor when he died on May 12, 1905.
context_section_description: Henricus Wallace Westlake (June 1858 – 12 May 1905) was a Canadian physician who moved to Los Angeles, California, around 1888, settled in the rolling hills west of the city and gave his name to both a municipal park and a neighborhood in the city.
  Westlake was born in either Canada or England in June 1858. He was a graduate of the medical department of McGill University in Montreal and also earned diplomas in Edinburgh and Vienna. He moved to Los Angeles in 1888, where he pioneered in building a large home on Burlington Avenue in the empty, rolling hills west of the city. He developed a large medical practice and was also president of the California-Corsica Citron Company and the Westlake-Rommel Oil Company, besides owning mining interests in Arizona. He was also the inventor of at least one medical device.
  He was known as a generous philanthropist who gave large sums to charities. He donated to the city an "unsightly gully" which in the winter filled with storm water and became stagnant, and the land was later developed into Westlake Park, now known as MacArthur Park.
  In 1885 or 1889 he was married to Fannie Farquhar of Canada,  who was his only survivor when he died on May 12, 1905.
caption: Westlake Park around 1900
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