Charles Fletcher Lummis spent 143 days hiking from Cincinnati to get to Los Angeles in 1885, an odyssey he chronicled in dispatches to his hometown newspaper in Ohio. He would go on to become a reporter at the Los Angeles Times and, with his workaholic nature, was named the papers first city editor. After a stroke left him partially paralyzed, Lummis became the citys librarian, wrote books on the Southwest and helped launch the Southwest Museum. But it was the rustic Craftsman-style home built with river rock in a grove of sycamore trees in Highland Park, however, that seemed to best capture the man. Now, after decades of being one of Los Angeles curiosity pieces, the Lummis House faces an uncertain future as its longtime tenants — the Historical Society of Southern California — prepare to move out and put many of their artifacts into storage. Read more about this below.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:14:49 +0000
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