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Arthur O. Hanisch was the President of the Stuart Company, a pharmaceutical concern with headquarters in Pasadena, CA. He commissioned local architects Eggers and Wilkman to design this residence; Eggers (1911-1987) was an accomplished architect, educated at Cornell University, who was friends with Myron Hunt, Harwell Harris and other notable Los Angeles architects. Hanisch's firm, The Stuart Company, originally had Eggers and Wilkman prepare a design for its corporate headquarters in the mid-1950s, but its proposal was rejected. Instead, the company chose the high-profile Edward Durrell Stone (1902-1978) to design it, working with the prominent Bay Area landscape architect, Thomas Dolliver Church (1902-1978).

The Hanisch House was written as "Hamish House, Oak Knoll, Pasadena" in Gebhard and Winter, Los Angeles Architecture: The Guide, [Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith Incorporated, 1994], p. 390. In 1955, Arthur O. Hansich lived at 940 Hillcrest Place with his wife, Marian, and their son, Shaler Hanisch (born c. 1926); they resided at 445 Prospect Square in Pasadena in 1947.

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