Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: [unspecified]

6424 Yucca Street
Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA 90028

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Overview

The Hollywood banker, real estate developer and physician Edwin O. Palmer lived at 6424 Yucca Street, in Los Angeles, CA, from at least 1913 until 1920. Palmer, originally from New York, moved from New York to Hollywood, CA, in 1900. He married his wife, Genevieve, on Valentine's Day, 1903. The physician became an influential civic leader shortly after arriving.

Building History

Edwin Obadiah Palmer (born 06/171872 in NY-d. 10/191959 in Los Angeles, CA), his wife, Genevieve O'Brien (born 08/14/1875 in VT-d. 11/28/1954 in Los Angeles, CA), daughter, Katherine Palmer Kline (born 1905 in CA-d. 1998 in Los Angeles, CA), son, William (born 01/08/1909 in CA-d. 03/09/1978 in Los Angeles, CA), and two servants--Lillian (born c. 1897 in TX) and Ben Nicholson (born c. 1896 in TX) lived at this address according to the US Census of 1920. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Los Angeles Assembly District 63, Los Angeles, California; Roll: T625_106; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 162, accessed 03/19/2018.) According to Who's Who on the Pacific Coast (1913), Palmer served as the President of the Hollywood National Bank and the Citizens Savings Bank of Hollywood in that year, as well as being a physician and surgeon. (See Franklin Harper, Who's Who on the Pacific Coast,[Los Angeles: Harper Publishing Company, 1913], p. 441.)

Palmer moved to this residence sometime between 1910 and 1913. Prior to 1911, they resided at 126 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California; Roll: T624_84; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0276; FHL microfilm: 1374097, accessed 03/19/2018.)

28 Nov 1954

PCAD id: 21853