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  • Built in 1952 on Lot 263 in Tract 8320
  • Original commissioner: real estate developer Arthur C. Wright as his own home
  • Architect: none specified on the original building permit; Arthur Wright's construction entities likely retained draftsmen for his residential designs
  • On February 14, 1952, Arthur C. Wright was issued a permit for the foundation of 151 North June Street, followed by permits issued on March 27 for an eight-room residence, a garage with bath and storage, and an irregularly shaped 20-by-40-foot pool. Certificates of occupancy were issued in the fall of 1955
  • Arthur Charles Wright was born in Pasadena on November 4, 1897, and educated at Cal Tech and U.S.C. He married Minneapolis-born Merle Daggett in November 1922; the couple had two daughters and a son. Wright would become prolific in home building in Southern California with his firms known as the Arthur C. Wright Company, Construction Engineers, Inc., and Development Engineers Inc.
  • Lot 263 of Tract 8320 was part of the three-lot parcel centered on the 1927 residence on Lot 264, addressed 161 North June Street. Dr. Claude L. Davison is known to have acquired that house and garage by early 1948, but it is unclear as to whether he also acquired the adjacent Lots 263 and 265 and their garden-related structures and sold them off for development himself or whether other arrangements were made for the disposition of the lots flanking 161. At any rate, new residences would be built on these lots in 1952. In February of that year classified ads placed in the Times by contractor Arthur C. Wright, who was getting ready to build his own house on Lot 263, to be addressed 151 North June, offered the 18-by-73-foot greenhouse built on Lot 263 in 1941 "As is, to be moved from lot between 141 & 161 N. June st."
  • Arthur and Merle Wright would be moving to Hancock Park from a modest bungalow at 1125 South St. Andrews Place in Country Club Park. He would still own 151 North June Street at his death on November 3, 1977, the day before his 80th birthday. Merle Wright died at the age of 91 on New Year's Day 1992
  • Darrell Wright, who'd been born to Arthur and Merle Wright on June 7, 1925, assumed ownership of 151 North June Street after his parents' deaths. On April 1, 1998, Darrell Wright was issued a permit to carry out a large second-floor addition to the residence, considerably altering its original single-story façade
  • 151 North June Street appeared on the market in early 2000 priced at $1,199,000. It was reduced to $1,750,000 by June
  • A new owner by the spring of 2001 added square footage at the southwest corner of the house; a subsequent owner made interior alterations   


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