page_title: John Jones and Doria Deighton-Jones
section_title: Buildings legacy
hierarchical_section_title: John Jones and Doria Deighton-Jones / Buildings legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Pico Union Street Scene
context_page_description: John Jones and Doria Deighton-Jones were husband-and-wife landowners and developers in 19th- and early 20th-century Los Angeles, California. John Jones was president of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of that city, in 1870–1871.
context_section_description: Olvera Street
  Doria Deighton-Jones built the Simpson-Jones Building in 1894 at the #1 Olvera Street site of the family's 1840s adobe house on the Plaza, which had been torn down in 1886 when Bath Street was widened to make an extension of Main Street.    It was constructed to house William Gregory Engines, also known as Moline Engines.  Later tenants were the Diamond Shirt Company and the Soochow Restaurant.  To its north is the Machine Shop building, built in 1886 on the site of the adobe's stables.  After Olvera Street became a Mexican Alta California era-themed shopping area in 1930, the shop's main entryway was switched from the Main to the Olvera facade, and is the present day entrance of El Luz del Día restaurant.  Its facade was remodeled in 1960 to resemble a mid-19th century Mexican bank. The name honors the Jones' daughter, Constance Jones Simpson.  She inherited the property in 1908. 
  Alvarado Terrace
  In 1902 Doria Jones subdivided her property in the Alvarado Terrace neighborhood of the Pico-Union district in Central Los Angeles. The lots were sold for only $10 each, but required the buyers to build houses that cost at least $4,000. It was publicized as "The only exclusive Residential Tract in the city. . . No flats, cottages or stores." It is the present day Alvarado Terrace Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places.
  Doria Apartments
  Around 1905 the Doria Apartments building was built by Doria Jones at 1600-1604 West Pico Boulevard. It was designed in the Mission Revival style by Gotfred Hanson. It is a registered Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
caption: The Historic Doria Apartments,
  West Pico Boulevard.
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