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!