The sole survivor of sixteen tree-themed streets laid out in 1885 on the Highland Park tract by surveyor Andrew Glassell Patton (1860-1910), whose brother was powerful Los Angeles attorney George S. Patton and whose uncle Andrew Glassell (George’s law partner) owned the land that became Glassell Park. Developers Albert H. Judson and George W. Morgan officially established Highland Park two years earlier; it’s unknown if the Pattons and/or Glassells were also stakeholders. The other arboreal streets on this tract, which all lost their names thanks to city ordinance and other factors: Cedar, Cherry, Chestnut, Elm, Laurel, Lemon, Magnolia, Maple, Oak, Olive, Orange, Palm, Pine, Sycamore, and Walnut.
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