PCAD - Round House, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles, CA 90012

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The Round House occupied a space bounded by Main Street on the east, Spring Street on the west, 3rd Street on the north and 4th Street on the south;

German immigrant, George Lehman, opened a beer garden on a piece of property that had a round adobe on it in the late 1850s; it became a favorite social center known as "The Round House." After its closure, the property served as Los Angeles's first kindergarten, operated by Kate Douglas Wiggin; the building was in use from c. 1850 - 1887.

Demolished in 1887;

PCAD id: 3334

Publications

Rasmussen, Cecilia, "L. A. Scene: The city then and now; a garden spot in dusty old L.A.", Los Angeles Times, B3, 5/12/1997. Guinn, J.M., "Historic Houses of Los Angeles", Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California., 68-69, 1896.