This street started out as Howard Place on a tract of the same name. Its owner: John E. Howard (1840-1898). Born and raised in Winchester, NH, Howard worked first as a schoolteacher and later as a (failed) clothing merchant. In 1867, he married Elizabeth “Lizzie” Henry (1847-1918) on her home turf in Montague, MA and they settled in nearby Greenfield. They had two daughters, Mary Louise (1869-1956) and Bessie (1871-1940), and brought them to SoCal in 1885. A year later, Howard Place was born. (Neighboring Elizabeth Street surely honors Elizabeth Howard although it wasn’t labeled on the tract map.) The Howards lived here for about nine years – even after their house burned down during a party in 1888 – but moved across the street from the then-upscale Westlake (now MacArthur) Park in 1895. Howard Place was renamed Howard Street by city ordinance in 1928; the former Denver and Dakota streets were folded into this new roadway at that time.
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