This 1893 street honors U.S. Navy lieutenant Howard Scott Waring (1850-1893) – or really his wife Lucretia Cole Waring (1860-1953), the Sacramento-born daughter of Senator Cornelius Cole, founder of the Hollywood-adjacent town of Colegrove. (See Cole Avenue.) After a year-plus engagement, “Lutie” Cole married Lt. Waring here in 1882, once he returned from the Bering Strait – he had been posted there to search for the crew of the USS Jeannette, who were lost while exploring the Arctic. The couple then briefly lived in St. Louis, where their only child Olive (1885-1944) was born, before settling in Washington, D.C. Sadly, the Arctic’s extreme conditions had wracked Howard’s health and his final decade was a struggle, although he remained active in the Navy until his death. Lutie and Olive stayed on in D.C. until relocating to Los Angeles in 1909. Olive Waring, who never married, wound up teaching at Hollywood High.
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