Residence of Lucy[?] Longstreet, West Adams Street, Los Angeles, ca.1900

Photograph (streetscape; horizontal photography) of a close-up of the front porch of the residence of Lucy[?] Longstreet, Los Angeles, ca.1900. Two women, a man and a child are being served tea by a female servant standing behind them. The group sit around a table with the exception of the child who sits near a column. The man is in a rocking chair. A dog sits at the side of one of the women. Four tall columns of the portico entry are in the image. Part of the house is visible at left. Trees are visible in the background. The residence has been mistakenly[?] associated with Confederate General James Longstreet probably based on a letter to the Herald Express (1940 February 5): "About 1875, Confederate General Longstreet acquired the 40 acres on the northeast corner of Figueroa and West Adams streets. He did what was possibly up to that time the most extensive grading job done in Los Angeles. He made a pleasing slope up to where the house was to be built, a slope such as we used to read about in southern love stories. He built a mansion of Southern grandeur and elegance and made the entrance from West Adams, between the palms which he planted, a southern romance. He planted the whole place with orange trees and it became the showplace of Southern California...".