Present-day Hacienda Place was the original location of Alfred Street, now located due south. This first Alfred was laid out in 1906 on the Hacienda Park tract, run by Charles A. Sumner. Although Sumner had a son-in-law named Alfred Pioche Robinson (1867-1945), this street most likely honors Alfred Horace Rush Jr. (1856-1942), the tract’s co-owner. (Indeed, it was re-subdivided in 1909 as the Rush tract.) Rush was a Point Huron, MI fruit distributor who came to Los Angeles with his new wife Annie in 1887 to try his luck in that year’s real estate boom. He returned to Michigan but was back in 1905, when he placed an ad selling 85 acres of “Hollywood foothill property”: the future Hacienda Park. The Rushes lived nearby on Fountain Avenue; after Annie died in 1911, Alfred remarried and retired to Santa Monica. And there was yet a third Alfred relevant to this street: Alfred Challacombe Watts (1857-1957), an Englishman who invested in Hacienda Park and lived on Flores Street with his wife Louisa. Percolated postscript: The trendy coffeeshop chain Alfred takes its name from this street as its first store was located here.
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