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AKA: Macomber, John Kingsley, Jr., and Pearl Seely, House, Berkeley Square, Los Angeles, CA
Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses
Designers: Hunt and Grey, Architects (firm); Elmer Grey (architect); Myron Hubbard Hunt (architect)
Dates: constructed 1906-1907
Pasadena architects Hunt and Grey designed this residence for Cincinnati, OH-born attorney and politician Walter Ransome Leeds (1879-1940). Leeds married Anna Fay (d. 1928), the granddaughter of the lumber magnate Thomas D. Stimson (1828-1898) and his wife, Achsah Jane Spencer Stimson (1834-1904), in 1903. The Leeds lived here from late 1907-1930. The next owner, J. Kingsley Macomber (d. 02/1970) and his wife, Pearl Seeley Macomber (d. 03/1965), lived in the dwelling until about 1960.
PCAD id: 3223
