Want to explore the Beckett Mansion (John C. Austin, 1905) in Sugar Hill, West Adams, without having to stay up all night shooting a horror movie? Swing by the prop sale Weds./Thurs: https://www.estatesales.net/CA/Los-Angeles/90018/4985664
The landmark used to be rotting in plain sight. https://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.com/2008/02/no-117-beckett-residence.html
Sign up and SEE! https://esotouric.com/event/main-street-vice-summer-2026/
Agenda link: https://ens.lacity.org/lapl/agendas/laplagendas266198512_07092026.pdf
It's available through Genealogy Bank, but LAPL is free!
Some friends of mine have this HCM, Hpoz, hillside house that they are ready to sell in order to finance their medical treatments and take care of their kids and grandkids. I’m afraid the combination of emcumberments plus the cost of getting it habitable and maxing out its value make it a stuck asset.
If preservation minded investors don’t buy it, I’m afraid it could go to someone might scrape the lot in hopes of increasing density.
What precisely happens if someone does that? Do they just have to wait a while?
His son's memorial post: https://joytripproject.com/2026/06/in-honor-of-my-father/
Learn more here: https://esotouric.substack.com/p/east22ndstreet
Street-Porter's photos on Instagram: https://instagram.com/p/DZ0-mpkDpbN
Our public records search that showed Angelenos overwhelmingly opposed this costly demolition: https://esotouric.com/lacma-emails