1714 Ivar Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Built in 1925, it was a glamorous hotel popular with celebrities including Rudy Vallee, Gloria Swanson, Dick Powell and Bette Davis. Errol Flynn lived here when he first came to Hollywood and both Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley stayed many times. Harry Houdini stayed here and his widow held a séance on the roof in 1936. Director D.W. Griffith ("Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance") lived here a mostly forgotten man until his death in 1948. Now a senior residence.
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