At Home With Dot
| Dorothy's home from 1926 to 1930 was at 294 South Carmelina Drive in Los Angeles. She lived here with her chauffeur named Harry and cook named Maude, a married couple. The house, a classic Spanish Revival bungalow, and garage were built in the Brentwood Club Estates in 1926 at a cost of $5,500. Supposedly, the house was a gift from her then love interest cowboy actor Tom Mix. In 1987 this house was ready for demolition but the owner offered it free to any tax deductible taker so the California State University took it. The house was chopped into three pieces via chainsaw, causing all the tiles and bricks to fall off, and moved onto the campus. CSU chose it for use as a dean's home, but those plans never materialized after cost calculations of fixing it (when it was discovered it was full of asbestos). So it sat on the campus for a year surrounded by a fence. Eventually the little house was moved to Sunland and put in storage. In January of 1991 it was bought, moved to Pasadena where it remains. After months of hard work fixing it up, Dot's little bungalow is now a beautiful and well manicured private residence. |
| Dorothy's Carmelina house as it looks today in Pasadena CA. Awfully nice, no? The house was put in Dorothy's name sometime after it was built. The house was rented out after Dot married William Boyd and was sold it in October of 1933, no doubt a very bad financial time. |
| Some views in the updated Brentwood house. Left is the dining room, right is the breakfast room and the living room is above. The ceilings, floors and fireplaces are all restored. |
| BUDDY |
| N O W |
| T H E N |
| Tom Mix |
| Click here for some of Dorothy's recipes! |
Special thanks to Helena Mountford for sharing a great article about this house.
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