1910) * - Carriage drawn by six horses in front of the Hollywood Hotel. In the far background are the Hollywood Hills. The Hollywood Hotel is seen on the north side of Prospect Avenue (Hollywood Boulevard). 1907) #** - View looking north from the field behind Hollywood High School. Under Anderson's management, the hotel expanded to 250 rooms and became well known in the area, but the two women had a contentious relationship and Anderson left to move to the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1912. Anderson who had worked for her at the Darby and the Fremont Hotels, which Hershey owned, as the manager. She was so impressed with the Hollywood Hotel she decided to buy it. In 1906 the heiress Almira Hershey, who was then living in a mansion on Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, took a horse and buggy ride to see the hotel that was being advertised in the Los Angeles Times. The original building can be seen on the right. (1906) * - View of the Hollywood Hotel just after it was enlarged to cover the entire block. The whole place, including the gardens took up three acres. and 125 guest rooms, was constructed running along Prospect Ave (later Hollywood Blvd.), stretching west to Orchid Drive. The hotel was so successful that in 1906 a huge addition, which included a new entrance, chapel, ballroom, etc. Prospect Avenue (later Hollywood Boulevard) is still unpaved. (1906) *– Postcard view of the Hollywood Hotel after new addition. He operated the establishment as a country resort hotel as the developing community of Hollywood first established itself. Whitley surrounded the hotel with 3 acres of cultivated gardens. Guests can be seen standing on the front porch while horse-drawn wagons are parked in front of the hotel and along the curb of an unpaved Highland Avenue. (1905) ^* - A closer view of the Hollywood Hotel. Increasing business compelled the building of an additional 40-room wing onto the hotel in 1905. Whitley was instrumental in improvements to Prospect Avenue, which in 1910 was renamed Hollywood Boulevard. The hotel was sited among lemon groves then at the base of the Hollywood Hills, part of the Santa Monica Mountains in the area. Located on the west side of Highland Avenue, the elegant wood structure with Mission Revival style stucco facades and broad verandas also fronted on unpaved Prospect Avenue, lined with California pepper trees. It was developed on property owned by Harrison Gray Otis, George Hoover, and Whitley. Whitley, to support selling residential lots to potential buyers arriving from Los Angeles by the electric Balloon Route trolly of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad. It was built by early Hollywood developer H.J. The Hollywood Hotel opened in December 1902. Only the original portion of the hotel had been built at this time. showing a gathering of people, fronted by five identical open-air automobiles. (later Hollywood Blvd.) and Highland Ave. (1903) * - View of the Hollywood Hotel at northwest corner of Prospect Ave.
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