Building contractor Edward Paul Dentzel designed the Mediterranean Revival style house for Mmes. W.P. Darby and Louse D. Boyer in 1927. The house is located at 906 North Whittier Drive in Beverly Hills, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Contractor Edward P..Dentzel designed and built the Mediterranean Revival style house for Wesley E. Compere in 1927. Compere was born in Texas on December 7, 1888. He was a purchasing agent in the oil business. He lived in the house with his wife Agnes and their two children, Ida and Wesley Junior. He died on July 26, 1982.
The house is located at 301 South Hudson Avenue in the exclusive enclave of Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California. Homes in the neighborhood are typically large; the one shown here has six bedrooms and five baths in almost 7,000 square feet. The lot is large too, at least by L.A. standards (over 34,000 sq. ft.)
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Architect-contractor E.P. Dentzel designed the Spanish Colonial Revival style house for himself in 1925. The house is located at 710 North Alpine Drive in Beverly Hills, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Contractor Edward P. Dentzel designed and built the Spanish Colonial revival style house in 1937 for Gertrude T. Reeves. The house was the home of playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director George Brackett Seitz (1888- 1944). Seitz was best known for his screenplays including: The Perils of Pauline (1914); The Exploits of Elaine (1914); The Shielding Shadow (1916); The Black Secret (1919); The Iron Claw (1916); The Phantom Foe (1920) and The Last of the Mohicans (1936).
Seitz was born in Boston, Massachusetts and started his career as a playwright, He directed 107 films, wrote 31 screenplays, and performed as an actor in seven films. He directed eleven of the Andy Hardy series of films of the 1930s & 1940s. He died in Hollywood, California. He was the father of George B. Seitz Jr., a writer/director active in the 1940s and 1950s in films and television.
The Seitz Residence is located at 611 North Arden Drive in Beverly Hills, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architect Robert V. Derrah designed the Colonial Revival style house for building contractor Edward P. Dentzel in 1935, possibly as a speculative venture. Although architect Robert V. Derrah is best known for his body of Streamline Moderne work, the Colonial Revival style house he designed at 816 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills demonstrates his ability to design pleasing architecture in a variety of stylistic expressions.
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