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An article, "Mrs Posey's New Residence," published in the Los Angeles Times on 01/15/1903 indicated that a "two-story cement and plaster residence of the Moorish style of architecture" would be located "on the southwest corner of Figueroa and Adams Streets." The article described the residence: "The principal entrance to the building will be on the corner of [Figueroa and Adams streets]. Spacious steps lead through wide portals surmounted by a curved roof to a reception room, whose exterior curves vary between a circle and an elliptical figure. This is flanked by conservatories of ample proportions, whose semispherical roof is supported by Moorish columns and arches.... The central portion of the structure is to be surmounted by a dome. Near the northwest portion of the house is a hexagonal tower. Toward the south and near a room all the lines of whose curved exterior are lines of beauty, stands a smaller square tower, as if to bid defiance to all trespassers who would dare to enter this enchanted domicile. The building, as planned, is really one of the most strikingly unique and tasty pieces of architectural work yet undertaken here....A portion of the roof will be used as a roof garden; the burnished tiling peculiar to the Moorish style of architecture, and like those used in the Palace of the Alhambra, will be used for the remainder, and several carloads of material for this purpose will be shipped here from Spain. In its exterior dimensions the dwelling will be 112 x 115 feet. It will contain about twenty rooms, which will comprise, in addition, to the living rooms and bed chambers, a large music room, reception room, parlor, library, a large den, smoking and billiard room, dining-room, breakfast room and kitchen. They are all to be supplied, of course, with the latest modern conveniences, and will be arranged in a manner worthy of the fine mansion of which they are to be a part. Work on the building is to begin within the next few months, The dwelling will cost about $75,000." (See "Mrs. Posey's New Residence," Los Angeles Times, 01/18/1903, p. A1.)

It is unclear if this house was built.

PCAD id: 17371