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Haufe family collection on Hildreth Mansion

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7144

Scope and Contents

The Haufe family collection on Hildreth Mansion contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and other material documenting the Hildreth Mansion, a Victorian house built in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles between 1886 and 1889 and restored by John and Mabel Haufe in the late 1940s as a rooming house named Hopecrest. The house, formerly located at 357 S. Hope Street, was designed by Joseph C. Newsom and built for Dr. Edward T. Hildreth, a retired Clergyman from Chicago. John and Mabel Haufe owned the Hildreth Mansion from 1946 to 1952. The house was demolished in 1954 and the parcel was subsequently purchased by the Redevelopment Authority and eventually incorporated into the Security Pacific Bank headquarters, which later became the Bank of America Plaza. The collection holds photographs taken by the Haufes during their residence at Hopecrest, as well as newspaper clippings about the house and the demolition of the Bunker Hill neighborhood. The collection also includes a brief history of the Hildreth Mansion and its restoration written by John Haufe in 1976.

Dates

  • Creation: 1945 - 1976

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Extent

0.98 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Carroll Leone (née Haufe), March 8, 2022.

Title
Finding aid for the Haufe family collection on Hildreth Mansion
Status
Completed
Author
Bo Doub
Date
2023 April
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States