Present-day Hacienda Place was the original location of Alfred Street, now located due south. This first Alfred was laid out in the 1906 Hacienda Park tract, run by Charles A. Sumner. Although Sumner had a son-in-law named Alfred Pioche Robinson (1867-1945), this street was more likely named for landowner Alfred Horace Rush (1856-1942). Rush was a Point Huron, MI fruit distributor who came to Los Angeles around 1887 to try his luck in real estate. He returned to Michigan but was back in late 1905, when he placed an ad selling 85 acres of “Hollywood foothill property” – the property that Sumner and his investors would soon snap up and subdivide as Hacienda Park. Rush and his wife Annie continued to live on nearby Fountain Avenue; after Annie died in 1911, Rush remarried and retired to Santa Monica. Finally, there was yet a third Alfred relevant to this street: Alfred Challacombe Watts (1857-1957), an Englishman who co-owned the Hacienda Park tract and lived on Flores Street with his wife Louisa. Perhaps Sumner honored all three Alfreds with this one street? Percolated postscript: The trendy coffeeshop chain Alfred takes its name from this street as the chain’s founder once lived here.
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