Frontenac, Beauvais, Clermont, and Lorraine are all communes or regions in France, and they all lent their names to streets laid out here in 1905 on the LeMoyne Terraces tract. (Lorraine Avenue was renamed Rainbow Avenue in 1923, presumably to avoid postal conflicts with Lorraine Boulevard; Clermont Street is really just a pedestrian pathway.) The tract was owned by Romaine Wade (née LeMoyne, 1831-1922) and the streets honor her heritage: three of her grandparents were French immigrants. (The fourth was Irish.) Wade was a wealthy Pennsylvania-born widow who actually lived in Montecito, but her son-in-law Robert Poindexter was a major Los Angeles realtor who probably facilitated her acquisition of this land. Hollywood’s Romaine Street is named after Wade’s granddaughter Romaine LeMoyne Poindexter.
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