Wattles Mansion: Hollywood’s Last Remaining Estate
- Feb 26, 2024
- 6 min read
The gardens of Wattles Mansion was a dreamscape of roses, chrysanthemums, orange blossoms, tulips, dahlias, palms, and citrus trees right in the middle of Hollywood.
In 1905, Omaha banker Gurdon Wallace Wattles purchased 90 acres north of Hollywood Boulevard (“back into a spur of the Sierra Madre Mountains”) between Vista and Curson and commissioned architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey to build his winter residence, a seven-bedroom Mission Revival mansion he named “Jualita.”
On the north elevation, concrete terraces and brick pathways created a formal garden backing upward into the canyon.
