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  • Built in 1927 on Lot 190 in Tract 6388
  • Original commissioner: oil operator and real estate investor Wesley Eugene Compere
  • Architect: none noted on building permit; the contractor was Edward P. Dentzel
  • On May 6, 1927, Texas-born W. E. Compere was issued permits by the Department of Building and Safety for a two-story, 12-room house and a one-story, 34-by-56-foot garage at 301 South Hudson Avenue
  • Wesley Compere and his Louisiana-born wife Agnes Oakes Compere owned the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena from 1936 to 1945; the couple remained at 301 South Hudson until 1959. Their daughter Ida May married Dr. Patrick Connell Humphreys at the Arlington Christian Church on June 15, 1936; the Humphreys would move into 667 South June Street by 1952. In January 1938, 301 South Hudson was robbed of a reported $10,000 worth of jewelry, furs, and clothing. Wesley Eugene Compere Jr. married Jane Pixley at the First Baptist Church in Hollywood on June 14, 1947. Wesley and Agnes Compere sold 301 South Hudson in 1959 and moved to the Chateau Chaumont apartments at Serrano Avenue and Ninth Street
  • Owners since 1959 appear to have done little structurally to the house other than add a 20-by-22-foot family room in 1982




In images provided courtesy of the original commissioner's
grandson, Wesley E. Compere Jr. is seen above on his bicycle at
 the front door of 301 South Hudson Avenue circa 1932; below
is the senior Comperes' last Christmas tree at 301 in 1958.



Illustrations: Private Collections