| Memphis is the last remaining residential house, dating back to 1903, left on this highly commercialized street. It is a two story Queen Anne/Dutch Colonial Revival Home, with shingled gables and fanciful turrets. In the early 1900's, the house worked as a family run school, which taught many children of the then famous celebrities of Hollywood. Some of these parents included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Cecil B. Demille, Noah Beery, and Jesse Lasky. The school eventually closed during the twenties and was in disrepair, much like the neighborhood, for the middle part of the twentieth century. In 1982 though, a man by the name of Guy Miller revived and restored the house and brought it back to the glory it once held.
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