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The parlor of Emmie H. and Alice Parsons' House hosted the first meeting of the Ebell Club, dedicated to coeducation, in 10/1894. (See "The Special Centennial Edition of the Ebell of Los Angeles,"Accessed 06/13/2011.) Growth of the club was rapid, necessitating permanent meeting quarters. Property was purchased on South Broadway near 7th Street, on which a clubhouse, resembling a Greek temple, was erected. This Ebell Temple housed the club until 1905, when the 2nd Clubhouse, designed by architect Sumner P. Hunt (1865-1938), was erected. The Ebell Clubs across California were named in honor of Dr. Adrian John Ebell (1840-1877), a physician who set up the International Academy of Natural Science with campuses in New York and Berlin, Germany, whose programs were geared to the education of young women. In 12/1876, Ebell lectured on the importance of women's education in Oakland, CA, to an enthusiastic crowd; shortly after his talk, a group formed calling itself the "Oakland Chapter of the International Society for the Advancement of Art," Science and Literature, affiliating itself with Ebell's International Academy of Natural Science. After his premature death, the Oakland society renamed itself in his honor. From its roots in Oakland, members of the first club established others, largely in Southern California. (See Alberta Beckelheimer, The Ebell Club of Anaheim, "Dr. Adrian John Ebell, M.,D., (1840-1877)"Accessed 06/13/2011.)

In 10/1898, the 2nd Church of Christian Science, then a controversial religion for its rejection of conventional medicine, used the Ebell Hall as a meeting hall. The first brick and mortar church for the 2nd Church of Christ, Scientist, designed by A.F. Rosenheim (1859-1943), opened in 1908 at 948 West Adams Boulevard.

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