Name/Title
ANDREW BOYLE HOUSE, CA. 1860sEntry/Object ID
2000.217.1.21Description
Color: Black; White
A reproduction black and white photograph of the home of Andrew Boyle, ca. 1860s. The brick structure has a simple wood porch on which are several persons, including a man in white clothing who is probably Boyle. the entrance to the home and several shuttered windows are in this area and there appears to be benches along the wall. The shingled roof has four brick chimneys projecting from it, two on each end. Just below the peak of the roof at the end facing the camera is an open access with the grille resting against the house. Below this is a room projecting from the main structure and a ladder leans against a wall of this section to provide access to the attic. A rounded open entrance at a corner of this projecting room was access to a cellar where wines were manufactured and kept. A door is to the right of this, perhaps indicating a kitchen or work area. Three men, probably employees stand near this area, one of them holding the reins of a white horse. At the center, seemingly a focus of the image, is an unidentified object covered in a white sheet or tarp, though there is a hay-like projection out a hole at the top. To the far left is a dark-colored horse and some animals, probably ducks or geese. Boyle Heights was a community subdivided around this structure by William H. Workman in 1876. It has been said the house in image .20 contains this structure in the back, but the roofline and size of the projecting room clearly indicate this is not so. See, however, item .22 for a later view of this home remodeled. As a newly produced photograph, the artifact is in mint condition.
Number-Units: 1Lexicon
Search Terms
Two-dimensional, Photographs, Architecture, Domestic--Los Angeles (Calif.), Dwellings--Los Angeles (Calif.)