What do you know about Dorothy Brewer Mohr Breese?

Once again looking for info on a property owner.
Dorothy Brewer Mohr Breese married Roy B. Mohr, an officer of an eastern railroad, and divorced him in pretty short order. 
Dorothy then married David B. Breese, an officer of First National Bank in Los Angeles--with Mr. Roy B. Breese  as her best man--and he provided the wedding dinner! A year later she filed for separate maintenance from Mr. Breese. In 1919 she was granted a divorce from him in Reno, Nevada, where he had established residency.
One busy lady!
She owned properties independent of her husband.
It appears that she was born February 22, 1874, most likely in Iowa. She died August 29, 1950, in Los Angeles.
An unrelated, but interesting fact: Her uncle was Justice David Josiah Brewer of the United States Supreme Court.

Question? WITH AN UPDATE!!!

Here's a update to the information which follows. This historian became curious, so I went to the map books of the Los Angeles County Assessor to see how long Jessie D'Arche owned each of these properties. Guess what--she NEVER owned any of these properties! So, why is her name on most of the building permits as the owner? Who knows? If you happen to be in the know, please post an answer here!


Instead, they were owned by the Lilly-Fletcher Company, who served as the developer of nearly three acres of property on which they were the builders of 10 rental apartment buildings and related garages which they constructed on spec and sold mostly to investors.

 Does anyone know anything about the white, female cornetist Jessie d'Arche (also Jessie de Arch) who was born in the 1880s (possibly in Little Rock, AK)? Jessie played with Kuttner's Orchestra in Little Rock and at some later point advanced westward, ending in Los Angeles in 1909 or earlier. Somehow she earned enough money to finance the building of apartment homes designed by architect L. A. Smith in 1919 and 1920.  This is one of seven similar buildings in the Tudor-revival style, named West Adams Gardens which are Historic-Cultural Monument 297 and are located along West Adams Gardens, a private street. Jessie d'Arche died September 3, 1935 and is interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, in an unmarked grave.



Miss D'Arche also financed the building of these buildings:


1155 West 27th Street



2666 Magnolia Street





1133 West 27th Street

This was an investment of nearly $2 million dollars in today's money. She was obviously one very successful cornetist!



 

Linda Scott Residence

The Linda Scott Residence is HCM 963 and was built in the Moorish-Spanish-Italian style. The residence was designed by Frank Tyler in 1906. Here is a photograph of it and text about it from Homes and Gardens of the Pacific Coast.

Here is the home as it appeared at the time of purchase, in 2009.

Mrs Scott was a character and a successful Realtor. Before she divorced her Arizona sheriff/rancher/husband she was deputized to transport prisoners to the state facility by stage coach--which was held up en route by a non-suspecting stage coach robber who got quite a surprise when she pulled a gun, arrested him, and added him to her cargo! She entertained often at her residence and sold a great deal of real estate. There is a slightly blurry photo of her from the Los Angeles Times.

 



The Trianon and Neon Roof Sign

The Trianon and Neon Roof Sign is located at 1750 - 1754 North Serrano Avenue in Hollywood and is Los Angeles HCM 616. It was nominated for monument status by some of the tenants who lived there when CITI bank bought it out of bankruptcy and exposed their plans to fix it up using architectural atrocities to save money--since it lacked architectural protection. The tenants were successful and the bank sold the newly architecturally protected parcel.

Leland A. Bryant designed this French Norman apartment building and its neon roof sign which was erected in 1928. Bryant also designed Sunset Towers, now known as the Argyle Hotel; the Country Club Manor and the Voltaire Apartments, as well as several similar buildings in San Francisco. Bryant was also an inventor who created the Bryant tooling dock, an industrial development pioneered during World War II for the aircraft industry and later adapted for use in the railroad and auto industries to reduce tooling time required in manufacturing. The invention was handled by the Geometric Mastering Corp. of which Bryant was president.

The elevated courtyard of the building has a fountain at its center, geometric walkways and is approached by stairs from Serrano. It is surrounded by an original balustrade with gateposts and lanterns at the entry. There is a subterranean garage, a full basement, an attic and an actual slate roof which was recently fully restored. The apartments in the main wing are approached by elevator and directly accessed from the elevator vestibule at each of the six floors. Each unit also has a rear entry that is stair-accessed. One unit has a private garden. The smaller wing has a three-story penthouse within it, in addition to other apartments in the wing. There are 28 units total in this gracious building.

This historically significant building and neon roof sign is currently on the market for $6,800,000. It enjoys the benefits of the Mills Act historic tax reduction program.