PLEASE SEE OUR COMPANION HISTORIES
AN INTRODUCTION TO HANCOCK PARK IS HERE
250 Rimpau Boulevard
- Built in 1956 on Lot 1 in Tract 18106
- Original commissioner: insurance agent Helen J. Hurd
- Architect: Gerald R. Colcord
- The Department of Building and Safety issued Miss Helen J. Hurd a permit for a 2,075-square-foot residence with attached garage at 250 Rimpau Boulevard on February 17, 1956
- Helen J. Hurd was moving to 250 Rimpau Boulevard from an apartment nearby at Country Club Manor on Rossmore Avenue; she was one of two unmarried daughters of Los Angeles real estate investor, mortgage banker, and insurance broker Charles C. Hurd. Hurd, who died in 1938, had built 4359 Victoria Park Place (originally named Fairmount Drive) in 1912. (That house remains standing and is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #1073.) Helen Hurd lived with her sister Pauline there until the latter's death at home in October 1952; selling 4359 soon afterward, she moved to Country Club Manor. Helen Hurd died at 75 on Dcember 11, 1967
Illustration: Private Collection