818 S Bonnie Brae St
Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA

Frederick Mitchell Mooers House - National Register of Historic Places

Statement of Significance

The Mooers House, built in I894 for Frank L. Wright, is historically significant because of its third owner, Frederick Mitchell Mooers, the discoverer of the famous Yellow Aster gold mine near Randsberg in Kem County, California. But its chief distinction, besides the richly appointed dining room, is its exterior architecture. Very few Victorian houses in America can match the perfection of wood carving or the imagination applied to detail on this house. On a street still very rich in turn of the century architecture, this house is the most arresting. The Guide to Architecture in Southern California (by David Gebhard & Robert Winter) calls it ""undoubtedly the most mannered design of its period in this area. It is also illustrated and commented upon in The Victorian House in America by John Maas (p. I60). Indeed, it is also illustrated in an article by the editors of the Brooklyn Eagle (April 2, I899) on the success of their old employee, F.M. Mooers. The article illustrates the living room from a point in the tower window.