Frederick Mitchell Mooers House, Victorian residence in Westlake, Los Angeles, United States.
The Frederick Mitchell Mooers House is a three-story residence in Los Angeles featuring Moorish Revival elements on South Bonnie Brae Street. The building is defined by a rounded tower with an elongated domed roof, a wraparound porch, and a central round-arched entrance.
The house was built in 1894 for May Gertrude Wright and came into the ownership of Frederick Mooers in 1898, a successful gold mine prospector. The property received National Register of Historic Places status in 1976.
The house is named for Frederick M. Mooers, the "Yellow Aster mining king," though he lived there less than two years, from 1898 until his death in 1900. The historic marker at the house calls it "A Prototype of Distinctive Architecture of the Boom of the 80's." Gebhard and Winter's guidebook notes the Queen Anne design with Richardsonian Romanesque columns and an elongated domed roof.
The house functions as a private residence and is not open to the public for interior visits, though the exterior can be viewed from the street. Its location in the South Bonnie Brae Historic District allows visitors to see the architecture on foot and explore other historic buildings nearby.
Mooers died in 1900 at age 52, leaving an estate valued at $755,050 in the Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Company and $10,000 for the Bonnie Brae house. His widow, who had not lived with him for 18 years before the 1895 strike, received one-sixth of the estate. The will contest was settled the day before trial after she met her husband's brother at the family home.
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