Building History

Frank Paige Fay (born 09/22/1855 or 1856 in Columbus, OH-d. 10/25/1929 in Los Angeles, CA), President of the F.P. Fay Fruit Company, lived from at least 1900 until 1924 at 743 Garland Street in Los Angeles's Westlake neighborhood. (Fay's birthdate was recorded as 09/22/1855 on his tombstone as related by Find A Grave.com, and was listed as 09/22/1856 in Carlton E. Sanford, Thomas Sanford The Emigrant to New England, Ancestry, Life, and Descendants, Vol. II, [Rutland, VT: Tuttle Company, Printers, 1911, p. 949.)His Fay Fruit Company, a wholesale fruit shipper and distributor, had an office at 309 West 2nd Street in 1899. (See Los Angeles, California, Business Directory, 1899, p. 1061.) By the mid-1910s, voter records indicated that Fay had branched into shipping of lumber in addition to fruit. He resided in this house with his wife, Francis Clark Wheeler Fay (born 08/21/1878 in Georgia, VT-d. 03/17/1953 in Pasadena, CA), and their two sons, Kenyon Tudor Fay (born 07/27/1902 in Los Angeles, CA-d. 04/29/1956 in Los Angeles, CA) and Sheldon Paige Fay (born 01/28/1905 in Los Angeles, CA-d. 11/29/1981 in West Hollywood, CA). In 1900, a Swedish-born servant, Amanda Ranberg, (born c. 1877) lived with the family. A lodger lived with the Fays in 1920, Elizabeth Page. (born c. 1878 in Poland).

Fay made plans for a new residence on Wilshire Boulevard in 1897. The Los Angeles Times reported: "The Builder and Contractor notes that plans are being prepared for a fine residence to be erected on Wilshire Boulevard between Rampart and Coronado streets for Frank P. Fay." (See "Building Notes," Los Angeles Times, 07/09/1897, p. 13.) It is not clear if Fay built this residence, but it seems that he never lived at this new address.

Building Notes

Fay owned an office building at the corner of 3rd and Hill Streets in Los Angeles in the 1910s.

Demolition

The Fay Residence at 743 Garland Street, was demolished.

PCAD id: 22749