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  • Completed in 1937 on Lot 375 in Tract 8320
  • Original commissioner: Dr. Barney M. Kully, an ear, nose, and throat specialist 
  • Architect: Heth Wharton
  • On November 2, 1936, the Department of Building and Safety issued Dr. Kully a permit for a two-story residence with attached garage at 123 Hudson Place. Per an item in the Times on November 8, "A $15,000 residence is to be built at 123 Hudson Place for Dr. Barney M. Kully.... Plans provide for a nine-room structure with ground dimensions of 60x41 feet."
  • Barney Maurice Kully, born in Omaha on May 23, 1896, was the son of Russian-born Israel Kulakofsky, a grocer in that city. A champion high-school debater, he entered Creighton University at 17; as a medical student at Creighton in January 1916, he was appointed as an Omaha city police surgeon. Later that year, along with his brother Herman and with the apparent blessing of their father, he petitioned for the change of his surname and was using the name Kully by the time he was interning at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in 1917. Dr. Kully was back in Nebraska on the staff of Creighton's medical school when he married recent Cal alumna Audrey Rubin in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, on June 1, 1928. Nancy Rose Kully was born on October 4, 1929, Russell Kully on August 17, 1932. After a trip west earlier in the year, the Omaha World-Herald reported on December 21, 1935, that Dr. Kully "today revealed plans to move to Los Angeles in March with his family. He plans to open an office there. Dr. Herman E. Kully, his brother, will take over the practice here." Soon after arriving in California, the Kullys headed straight for Hancock Park, where they rented 124 South Rossmore Avenue. Dr. Kully opened his new office in the Wilshire Professional Building not far away
  • Nancy Rose Kully, who was recently graduated Phi Beta Kappa from U.C.L.A., married Dr. Edmund Lawrence Dubois—his ΦBK coming from Johns Hopkins—at home at 123 Hudson Place on April 3, 1952. Her parents began working on a move from Hancock Park to a 1934 house at 416 Comstock Avenue in Westwood soon after, with Dr. Kully moving his practice into the new Roxbury Medical Building in Beverly Hills
  • Colorado-born Harold Theodore Draper, then a manufacturer's representative and later a downtown manufacturer of labels and tags for the garment industry, married Helen Simons on June 1, 1928. The would have no children. By the time he signed up for the draft in 1942, Harold was simply "Ted Draper," claiming to have no middle name. Selling their Los Feliz house in late 1952, they moved into 123 Hudson Place. The name "Ted Draper" became perhaps a record for the most mentions in social diarists' columns over the decades into the 1960s either in connection with parties the Drapers gave or attended or the committees they served on, to the point that Linotype operators might have considered casting a ligature; even Times diarist Christy Fox seems to have been getting tired of typing the name, telling readers on January 5, 1957—perhaps or perhaps not mischievously—that "Helen and Ted Draper's biggest problem was what color Cadillac to drive home from Detroit." The Drapers stayed at 123 Hudson Place until moving to a Park La Brea apartment by 1957
  • Succeeding the Ted Drapers at 123 Hudson Place was veteran real estate developer and William George Dickinson, born in National City in 1895 and a resident of Los Angeles since he was six years old. His father, George William Dickinson, also a developer, built 423 Andrews Boulevard—the street was later renamed Lafayette Park Place—in 1906; the younger Dickinson began in real estate with him after being graduated from Stanford in 1918. The father-and-son team subdivided tracts in the Rampart and Wilshire districts, in Silver Lake and in Flintridge, among other areas, the younger Dickinson being recognized by the Los Angeles Times as Realtor of the Year in 1936. He married Lolita Aileen Sanborn of Benicia and they would have two daughters and a son, George William Dickinson, born on May 20, 1926. The family moved into 423 South Lafayette Park Place and remained there until moving to Hancock Park. William George Dickinson died at 68 on February 15, 1964; five years later his widow married Herbert M. Stanley, who moved into 123. Aileen Stanley died at 84 on January 4, 1983; 123 Hudson Place was occupied by her son until his death there in 2018. As of 2023 the house remains in the family 66 years after its arrival


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