Stimson House

Lumber magnate Thomas Douglas Stimson hired L.A. architect Carroll H. Brown to build his three-story, 30-room Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in what is now the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1890. When Stimson House was completed in 1891, the L.A. Times described it as “the costliest and most beautiful private residence in Los Angeles.” After Stimson’s death, the house has been occupied by a brewer who reportedly stored wine and spirits in the basement, a fraternity that conducted noisy parties to the consternation of residents of neighboring mansions, Mount St. Mary’s College students and nuns of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. It is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Image by Andrew Schmidt