Stimson House
Los Angeles, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Built in 1891 in Los Angeles's University Park neighborhood, the Stimson House is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion constructed for lumber and banking magnate Thomas Douglas Stimson. The residence survived a dramatic dynamite attack by a blackmailer in 1896 during Stimson's lifetime. Following his death, the house passed through varied uses, serving as the residence of a brewer who kept wines and spirits in the basement, a fraternity house whose boisterous gatherings troubled neighboring mansion owners, student housing for Mount St. Mary's College, and eventually as a convent for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
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- Built
- Type
- single-family detached home, historic house
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
- Place
- Los Angeles, United States
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