Women sitting on the porch of Lucy[?] Longstreet's home at Palm Avenue and West Adams Boulevard, ca.1895/1900

Photograph of women sitting on the porch of Lucy[?] Longstreet's home at Palm Avenue and West Adams Boulevard, ca.1895/1900. At center, two young girls and two women sit on the steps to the porch of the large mansion, while two other women can be seen in chairs on the porch behind them. The home, whose column at left is overgrown with vines, was built circa 1884. The area later became Singleton Court and then Orthopedic Hospital. 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...".