Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, 1890

Photograph of the Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, 1890. The three-story Victorian-style mansion stands at center, obscured to the left by some plant growth. The foundation is made of mortared brick, on top of which the mansion sports a porch and balcony identical to one another, held up by decorative colonnade. To the right, the mansion bears a cylindrical tower full of windows, annexed to the corner of the houses main structure. Gingerbread shingles cover the roof of each tier of the house. In the background at right, wooden steps can be seen leading up to a hill on which a stack of lumber is resting.