Edwin Harratt (1845-1916) was an English carpenter who immigrated to New Haven, CT in 1873 with his wife Eliza (1843-1925) and baby daughters Edith (later Teele, 1871-1959) and Ida (later Watson, 1872-1966). They came to Los Angeles in 1894 and bought this land in 1902 – Edwin had recently been hired to build streetcars for Sherman and Clark‘s Los Angeles-Pacific Railroad, whose yards were located down the hill at the present-day site of the Pacific Design Center. Harratt Street was named in 1906 and the Harratts lived in the same house on the west end of their street for decades: Ida and her daughter Maudie (later Case, 1901-1987) only finally moved out around 1954. The house was demolished in 2016 to make room for the Edition Hotel. Family footnote: Edith Harratt Teele once owned the land that became the Hollywood Bowl.
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