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The first orphanage operated by the Los Angeles Orphans' Home Society, opened just after 1880, and was located in what was then Downtown Los Angeles. It moved to a more rural, 3.5-acre property in the booming neighborhood of Hollywood in 1912. Senator Cornelius Cole (1822-1924), the founder of the Republican Party in CA and the owner of the Spanish land grant rancho that became Hollywood, provided the site located across from the Paramount Pictures lot. The orphanage's name was changed to the "Hollygrove Home for Children" in 1957. The facility, once the home of Marilyn Monroe, closed as a residential treatment option for abused or neglected foster children in 2005. In 2014, according to its web site, "Hollygrove provides a range of counseling and crisis services to at-risk children in their homes, at school and on our campus in Hollywood. We’re now able to help these children before they’re removed from their families, or help them reintegrate into their communities when they return from out-of-home placement." (See "History,"Accessed 03/04/2014.)

The front facade has undergone drastic alterations since 1912; nothing is recognizable of the original residence. A arcaded brick facade with a mansard roof has replaced the original Colonial Revival Style house topped by a hipped roof.

PCAD id: 7187