Fremont Place is located in the heart of Los Angeles between Wilshire and Olympic south of Windsor Square adjacent to Hancock Park. It is a spectacular private and gated community where the who’s who of Los Angeles have always lived.

It was laid out in 1911 by developers Charles Ingram, David Barry and George Briggs. The lots closer to Wilshire are around 40,000 square feet while the remaining 50 lots to the south are about 20,000 square feet each, which by any standard is generous. Back in 1911 the Fremont Group, Ingram, Barry and Briggs were in fierce competition with the R.A. Rowan Company who were representing the Windsor Square Development along the north side of Wilshire Blvd. This competitive rivalry, lead to extreme “one-up-man-ship” an example of which is the Grand Fremont Place Gates that reputedly cost more than the average home of that day.

Driving through the gates of Fremont Place you are dazzled by an array of phenomenal architecture.

Oilman Martin Henry Mosier built the first home here in 1915. He engaged the architect John C. Austin to design this Italian Renaissance home with interiors by Tiffany’s. Mohammad Ali’s family bought the home and restored it in the 1970’s. This magnificent house stills stands on the grandly appointed corner lot.

Next door is a Georgian Colonial designed by Myron Hunt in 1923 which remains a splendid home and one of the many jewels of Fremont Place.

Nearly every house in this neighborhood has an incredible story, across the street is a two-story Beaux Arts Mansion which Mary Pickford rented with her mother in 1918 before she married Douglas Fairbanks and moved to the Pickfair Estate.

One of my favorite houses is the French Normandy Chateau which is on a colossal lot and was designed by the architect Elmer Gray, gardens by Paul J. Howard, interiors by John B. Hortzclaw.

Fremont Place remains one of the premier places to live in Los Angeles just minutes from the Music Center, Corporate Los Angeles, the Grove , the Farmer’s Market , The Beverly Center, Beverly Hills, the Studios and the best all round community shopping center Larchmont Village.

Fremont Place is an incredible place to live – children are totally safe as they ride their bikes and roller-skate on the quiet private avenues. The residents include the sophisticated Los Angeles’ business elite, the movers and the shakers, as well as top actors, composers and writers. There are less than 90 homes in this community and they are always in demand.

My parents could have bought any place in Los Angeles but chose to raise their 5 children here!  I truly loved it, it is a unique and special place to live. 
  If you are in the market for a home in Fremont Place please contact us because we often have pocket listing that do not go on the open market.

This blog is one of a series of blogs about the neighborhoods adjacent to Hancock Park and Larchmont Village plus events, stores, restaurants, business and facilities that are part of our neighborhood, let us know if you want us to send you future blogs about the neighborhood.