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  • Built in 1966 on a parcel comprised of a portion of Lot 4 of Tract 6748 and a portion of Lot 4 of Tract 18106
  • Original commissioner: Edwin Rowley Ridgway
  • Architect: Paul Revere Williams
  • On Janauary 7, 1966, the Department of Building and Safety issued Edwin R. Ridgway a permit for a three-story, 50-by-46-foot residence with attached garage at 232 Rimpau Boulevard
  • In a March 9, 1980, feature in the Times headlined NEW ARRIVALS UPGRADE OLD GUARD BASTION, real estate reporter Ruth Ryon described one of the periodic rediscoveries of Hancock Park (and adjacent Windsor Square and Fremont Place) by new money. Ryon described Edwin Ridgway as "one of the old guard"; he had, in fact grown up down the street from 232 at 355 Rimpau Boulevard, and could indeed claim deep local roots, such as they extended in Los Angeles. According to Ryon, Ridgway had 232 Rimpau on the market at the time of her reporting, asking $1,250,000. The house did not sell in 1980; Ridgway, apparently a lifelong bachelor and avid ancestor-worshipper, appears to have retained the property until his death at 79 on June 25, 1994


The curious entrance gate of 232 Rimpau Boulevard seems stylistically (as well as geographically)
somewhat distant from the house, which is to the left through the doors. The gate and
its wall connect the residence to the garage to the right. Several houses on the
cul-de-sac have irregular lots with narrow access to the street.



Illustrations: Private Collection