Los Angeles's Chester Place
Author's note: Los Angeles's Chester Place, as is typical of books of photographs, does not contain a bibliography or footnotes, based on the theory that they are a distraction to the general reader and the pictures speak for themselves. To provide for those individuals interested in further study, this WEB page contains a selected Bibliography. Footnotes on a WEB site raises copyright issues, and are, therefore, not included. For anyone pursuing scholarly research who is seeking specific source information, please contact the author at Book@Sloper.org
Selected Bibliography
January 8, 2007
Books
Ansell, Martin R., Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1998.
Belloli, Andrea P. A., ed. Wallace Neff 1895-1982: The Romance of Regional Architecture. Santa Monica, CA: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1998.
Davis, Margaret Leslie., Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1998.
“Edward Laurence Doheny” California of the South: A History: Biographical Volume IV. Chicago-Los Angeles-Indianapolis: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Inc., 1933: 431-435.
Fontanini, Steve, Sister Anne Marie. Chester Place, Mount St. Mary’s College, Doheny Campus, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA: Mount St. Mary’s College, 1982
Gebhard, David and Robert Winter. Architecture in Los Angeles: A Compleat Guide. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs-Smith, 1985.
Gebhard, David and Robert Winter. Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs-Smith, 1994.
Gleye, Paul. The Architecture of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA: Rosebud Books, 1981.
Guillermo-Vidaurri. A Brief History of St. Vincent’s School. Los Angeles, CA: May 1999.
Gumprecht, Blake. The Los Angeles River. Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Hancock, Ralph. Fabulous Boulevard. New York, NY: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1949.
Hill, Laurence. La Reina: Los Angeles in Three Centuries: A Volume Commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles, February 11, 1889. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Security Trust and Savings Bank, 1929.
Kaplan, Sam Hall. L. A. Lost and Found. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1987.
Kirker, Harold. Old Forms on a New Land: California Architecture in Perspective. Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1991.
Knowles, Ruth Sheldon. The Greatest Gamblers: The Epic of American Oil Exploration Second Edition. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.
La Botz, Dan. Edward L. Doheny: Petroleum, Power and Politics in the United States and Mexico. New York, NY: Praeger, 1991.
McGroarty, Steven, ed. History of Los Angeles County Volume I. Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1923.
Moore, Annette, USC’s First Ladies: A Trojan Family Album. Los Angeles, California: Figueroa Press, 2005.
Moore, Charles, Peter Becker and Regula Campbell. The City Observed: Los Angeles, New York: Vintage Books, 1984.
Murray, Carolyn, ed. Chester Place: Mount St. Mary’s College, Doheny Campus, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA: Mount St. Mary’s College, undated.
Neff, Wallace, Jr. editor. Wallace Neff: Architect of California’s Golden Age. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1986.
Nunis, Doyce B., Jr. The Founding Documents of Los Angeles: A Bilingual Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Historical Society of Southern California and the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles, 2004.
Nunis, Doyce B., Jr. Southern California’s Spanish Heritage. Los Angeles, CA: Historical Society of Southern California, 1992.
O’Donnell, Terence M., C. M. St. Vincent de Paul Church. Los Angeles, CA: Bob Plunkett, c. 1968.
O’Flaherty, Joseph S. An End and a Beginning. Los Angeles, CA: Historical Society of Southern California,1992.
O’Flaherty, Joseph S. Those Powerful Years. Historical Society of Southern California,1992.
O’Neill, Owen H. History of Santa Barbara County, State of California: It’s People and It’s Resources. Meier, 1939.
Ovnick, Merry. Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Balcony Press, 1994.
“Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, Mexican Petroleum. New York, N. Y.: Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company 1922.
Pederson, Barbara L. A Century of Spirit: Unocal 1890 – 1990. Los Angeles, California: Union Oil Company of California DBA (doing business as) Unocal Corporation, 1990.
Regan, Michael. Mansions of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA: Regan Publishing Company, 1965.
Ritchie, Ward. The Doheny's of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1974.
Roseman, Curtis C., Wallach, Ruth, Taube, Dace, McCann, Linda, DeVerteuil, Geoffrey, Zachary, Calude. A University and A Neighborhood: University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1880 – 1884. Los Angeles, CA: Figueroa Press, 2006.
Taylor, Frank J. and Welty, Earl M. Black Bonanza: How an Oil Hunt Grew into the Union Oil Company of California. New York, N. Y.: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1950.
Watson, Jane Werner The Seaver Story. Claremont, CA: Pomona College, 1960.
Weber, Msgr. Francis J. Southern California's First Family: The Doheny's of Los Angeles. Fullerton, CA: Lorson's Books and Prints, 1993.
White, Leslie T. Me, Detective. New York, N. Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
Who’s Who in the Pacific Southwest. Los Angeles, CA: Times-Mirror Printing, 1913.
Wilson, J. Albert. History of Los Angeles County. Oakland, CA: Thompson and West, 1890. (Reprinted: Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1959.)
Workman, Boyle. The City that Grew. Los Angeles, CA: The Southland Publishing Co., 1936.
Youngs, Bill. The Legacy of Frank Roger Seaver. Los Angeles, CA: Pepperdine University Press, 1976.
Monographs / Pamphlets / Other
Addresses at a Meeting of the Zamorano Club, May 6, 1950, Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California. Los Angeles, CA: Anderson & Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press, October, 1950.
Art and Architecture Notes. Los Angeles, California: St. John’s Episcopal Church, undated.
Burns, Donald W. PhD and Baum, Alice S. The Dohenys and Capistrano Beach: The Untold Story. Prepared for the Dana Point / Capistrano Beach Historical Society. October, 1999.
Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, Annual Report, 1999. Fifty Years 1949-1999, Portraits of Giving.
Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, 2003 Annual Report.
The Estelle Doheny Collection, Lace, Exhibited at the Pasadena Art Institute April 17 to June 1, 1951. Pasadena, CA: Castle Press, 1951.
The Estelle Doheny Collection of the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library. Camarillo, CA: St. John’s Seminary, undated.
For Release: Monday, March 2, 1987. Los Angeles, CA: Archdiocese of Los Angeles, 1987. (Note: The press release by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced the decision to sell the Carrie Estelle Doheny Collection at the St. John’s Seminary Library and use the money to create a fund to support the seminary.)
Marie, Sister Anne. A Heritage Tour of Chester Place and Chester Place Souvenir Map-Ticket. Los Angeles, CA: Mount St. Mary’s College, September 28, 1975.
Municipal Reference Library. City Officials: Theodore Augustus Eisen, May 14, 1935, amended December 30, 1936.
Municipal Reference Library: City Officials: Sumner P. Hunt, December, 1934, amended August 21, 1936.
Powell, Ruth and Chuck Powell. Chester Place: on the occasion of a tour of the Downtown Campus of Mount St. Mary's College. Los Angeles, CA: Historical Society of Southern California and Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, October 24, 1964.
Periodic Articles
Builder and Contractor XIII, February 20, 1913: 9.
Builder and Contractor XIII, no. 311, February 8, 1899: 2.
Builder and Contractor XIII, no. 319, April 5, 1899: 3.
Builder and Contractor XIII, no. 329, June 14, 1899: 2.
Builder and Contractor XIII, no. 330, June 21, 1899: 3.
Builder and Contractor XIII, no. 361, January 24, 1900: 4.
Builder and Contractor XIII, no. 365, February 21, 1900: 3.
Crowley, George T. “Edward Laurence Doyen”, Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review Dublin: December, 1935: 631-641.
“Edward L. Doheny”. Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 37.1, March, 1955: 76-78.
“For Los Angeles Explorers, Chester Place is a Special Treat”. Sunset Magazine, April, 1966: 34.
Jacobs, Joy. “New Docents Reveal Hidden Treasures”, Mount St. Mary’s College Magazine Los Angeles, CA: Summer, 2003.
Lockwood, Charles. “The Oil of L. A.”, New West, September 10, 1979: 96-97.
“Los Angeles Landmarks”, Westways, August, 1965: 25.
Miller, Lucille V. "Edward and Estelle Doheny: Memorial Issue", The Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly VI.1 November, 1960.
Miller, Lucille. “In Memoriam. Mrs. Edward L. Doheny”, California Historical Quarterly XXXVII.3 September, 1959, 278-279.
“Reinforced Concrete Their Theme”. The Architect and Engineer of California, December, 1905: 59.
Rosenheim, Alfred F. “The Architect – Commentaries on the Profession.” Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer, January 24, 1914: 8+.
Shaffer, Ellen, “Reminiscences of a California Collector: Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny 1875-1958” The Book Collector Volume 14, No. 1, London, England: Shenval Press Ltd., 49-59.
Southwest Builder and Contractor, February 15, 1924: 51.
Southwest Builder and Manufacturer, January 11, 1913: 16.
Southwest Builder and Manufacturer, October 30, 1909: 7.
“Some of the Work of Sumner P. Hunt and A. Wesley Eager, Architects”. The Architect and Engineer of California, November, 1907: 34-47.
St. John’s Episcopal Church: Parish Survey List, Volume I, A – E, Baptisms June 13, 1920 to March 19, 1939, Family List of St. John’s Parish, April, 25, 1923.
Sunset Magazine, July, 1918: 21-23.
Sussman, M. Ha. “Russell Murals Unveiled”. Southwest Art, May 1989: 60-63.
“The Piano Perfect”. Architectural Record, March, 1905: 261-263.
Weber, Frank. “A Tour Through the Estelle Doheny Collection”. Evangelist, Camarillo, CA: Vol. XIX, Number 3.
Newspaper
“A New Era for Chester Place”. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner May 27, 1962.
“Big Green House Poses Problem for Wrecker”. Los Angeles Times June 10, 1960.
Bronius, George. “Chester Place Revisited”. Home Magazine, Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 1975.
Burr, Alice Hicks. “Chester Place Beauties Stir Memories”. Los Angeles Times July 19, 1942, Page D3.
“Chester Place Mansion Stays – It’s Use Changes”. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner May 27, 1962, 14.
Danielson, Vera. “Veteran architect to be remembered for his showplaces”. Pasadena Star-News June 10, 1982, Section A, 1.
“Doheny Rite Conducted: Notables Lead in Services”. Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 1935, Section II, 1.
“Doheny Murder Inquiry Discloses Controversy”. Los Angeles Times Feb 18, 1926, Part One, page one.
“Doheny’s Colorful Rise to Oil Fame Outlined.” Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 1935, 1.
“E. L. Doheny, Oil Man Dies of Long Illness.” Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 1935, 1.
“Edward L. Doheny Widow Dies at 83”. Los Angeles Times or Los Angeles Examiner.
“For Sightless: Mrs. Doheny Creates Light”. Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 1954, Part III.
Giovanni, Joseph. “Architect Shaped a California Tradition”. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner June 14, 1982, Sec. B, 1.
Guswiler, Mert. “Mount St. Mary’s Marks a Milestone”. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Oct. 14, 1975, Section B, 1.
Guthierrez, Ava. “Learning In an Oasis in Downtown Los Angeles”. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner California Living Section, June 27, 1976, cover, 7, 11.
Harris, Alene. “Old Property Archives Tell Rare L. A. History: Secrets of Mansions Revealed”. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Aug. 24, 1960, Section D.
Hamilton, Denise. “Curator Turns Pages Back to Era of Doheny Archives” Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 1988.
Lockwood, Charles. “Oil Boom Fueled Growth of L. A.: But Entire Neighborhoods Vanished Under Forest of Derricks”. Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 1985.
Los Angeles Examiner Jan. 17, 1904, 49.
Los Angeles Examiner June 6, 1906, 13.
Los Angeles Times 1905, Section V, 1.
Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 1899, Section 2, 3.
“Mrs. Doheny Wills Riches to Charities”. Los Angeles Examiner Nov. 6, 1958, Section I,
Murray, Carolyn S. “A Special Kind of Perfection”. Home Magazine, Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 1975.
Murray, Carolyn S. “Inside Home”. Home Magazine, Los Angeles Times Sep 14, 1975, 7.
“Oil Greases the Los Angeles Economy”. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Jan. 30, 1969, Section A, 6.
“Oil Mansions Get New Life”. Los Angeles Times 20 May, 1962, Section H, 8.
Pool, Bob. A New Drill for the Lavish Home of an Oil Tycoon”. Los Angeles Times July 3, 2003, Section B, 2.
Rasmussen, Cecilia. “Doheny Home Was His Castle, Is Their Campus”. Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2003, Section B, 4.
Rasmussen, Cecilia. “Sifting Myth from History at the Bradbury”. Los Angeles Times May 21, 2000, Section B, 3.
Regardie, Jon. “The Old College Try”. Los Angeles Downtown News Oct. 14, 1996.
Reich, Ken. “Gas Leak Blast: Eight Hurt; Many Flee Nearby Homes”. Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 1967, 1.
Riccardi, Nicholas. “USC Fraternity House Winds Landmark Status”. Los Angeles Times Nov. 8, 1994, Section B, 10-11.
“Rites Today for Doheny”. Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 1935, 1.
“Times Woman of the Year”. Los Angeles Times December 5, 1954, Part III
“1200 Attend Funeral for Mrs. Doheny” Newspaper unknown.
Weber, Francis J. “Carrie E. Doheny, Servant of God”. The Tidings June 30, 1972.
Woutat, Donald. “Oil of L. A.: There’s Plenty of Crude Yet to Be Pumped From This Giant Urban Patch, but Drillers Face Intense Opposition”. Los Angeles Times Part IV, page 5, Feb. 15, 1988.
Unpublished Studies
Flanagan, C.S.J., Sister Mary Irene, “The Historical Development, Design and Furnishings of Doheny Hall, the Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Doheny, Now the Campus of Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, California." unpublished Master's Thesis San Jose, CA: San Jose State College, 1967.
Christie’s Catalogs
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles October, 1987 to May, 1989
The extensive collections donated to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for the libraries at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California, were auctioned by Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. 502 Park Avenue at 59th Street, New York, New York 10022. The items in the auctions were printed in the following series of catalogues. Boldface Italics has been added to clarify the items in each catalogue.
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Sold on Behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Index An Alphabetical check-list, with prices realized, of the six sale catalogues of Printed Books and Manuscripts, October 1987 to May 1989.”
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Sold on Behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Part I Fifteenth-Century Books including the Gutenberg Bible which will be sold on Thursday, October 22, 1987”
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Sold on Behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Part II Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts which will be sold on Wednesday, December 2, 1987”
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Sold on Behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Part III Printed Books and Manuscripts including Western Americana which will be sold Monday and Tuesday, February 1 and 2, 1988”
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Sold on Behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Part IV Printed Books and Manuscripts including Early Printing, Literature and Fine Bindings which will be sold Monday and Tuesday, October 17 and 18, 1988”
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Sold on Behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Part V Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana, Literature and Fine Bindings which will be sold on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 21 and 22, 1989”
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Sold on Behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Part VI Printed Books and Manuscripts concerning William Morris and His Circle which will be sold on Friday, May 19, 1989”
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library Sold on Behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California Wednesday and Thursday, February 3 and 4, 1988 Nineteenth Century European and American Paintings, Prints, Furniture, Porcelain, Oriental Jades, Renaissance and later Works of Art, Lace, Parasols and Fans, Paperweights”
St. Mary’s of the Barrens, Perryville, Missouri, December, 2001
The collections donated to St. Mary’s of the Barrens, Perryville, Missouri, were auctioned by Christie’s, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10020.
The items in the auctions were printed in the following series of catalogues. Boldface and Italics has been added to clarify the items in each catalogue.
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from St. Mary’s of the Barrens, Perryville, Missouri Antique Glass Paperweights and Decorative Arts Monday 17 December 2001
“The Estelle Doheny Collection from St. Mary’s of the Barrens, Perryville, Missouri Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts 14 December 2001
Letters
Posey, J. V. G. Letter to Chuck and Ruth Powell. Portland, Oregon, November 12, 1964.
Miller, Lucille V. Letter to Ruth Powell, August 17, 1964.
Videotape / DVD Disk
“Welcome to the Estelle Doheny Collection”. Donated by Rita S. Faulders to the Ventura County Museum of History and Art, Ventura, CA. VHS tape 1987.
Additional Sources
Ventura County Museum of History and Art, 100 East Main Street, Ventura, CA 93001.
The library contains papers donated by Rita S. Faulders of Camarillo, CA who was a curator of the Estelle Doheny Collection at the Library of St. John’s Seminary. Her documents include short articles on elements of the collection:
A Guide to the Paperweights
Furniture
Pianos in the Doheny Collection
San-Carved Windows
Bookplate History
Personal Interviews
Durand, Elizabeth Posey. Grand daughter of Oliver and Sarah Posey, who build #8 Chester Place and sold the house to Edward and Estelle Doheny in 1901. (Conducted August 19, 2004, at 8 Chester Place, Los Angeles, California, by Don Sloper.)
Faulders, Rita S. Fourth and final curator of the Doheny Collection at St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California. (Conducted October 28, 2004, at Camarillo, California, by Don Sloper and Mary Sloper.)
Nador, Kay. Personal secretary to Frank Roger and Blanche Ebert Seaver for more than 30 years before Blanche Seaver’s death in 1994. (Conducted Sept. 27, 2004, at 8 Chester Place, Los Angeles, California, by Don and Mary Sloper.).
Villanua, Mel A. Escort of Blanche Seaver and helped clean her house after her death in 1994. (Conducted Sept. 27, 2004, at 8 Chester Place, Los Angeles, California, by Don and Mary Sloper.)