818 S Bonnie Brae St, Los Angeles, CA 90057
May Gertrude Wright and F. L. Wright had this Victorian house built on South Bonnie Brae Street in 1894. Its detailed exterior combined Queen Anne design with small paired columns and an elongated domed roof. In 1898, the Wrights sold it to Frederick Mitchell Mooers for $5,200. After years of prospecting, Mooers and two partners had found gold at the Yellow Aster mine in Randsburg in 1895. That success gave him the wealth to buy the Los Angeles home, where he lived with his brothers. Mooers died in 1900 at age 52, leaving a will that brought the house into a family dispute. His wife received only one-sixth of his estate, while the house was left to his mother. She challenged the will, and the dispute was settled the day before trial after she met with one of his brothers at the Bonnie Brae home. The house ultimately passed to his mother, Eliza A.R. Mooers, who lived there until her death in January 1902. Her surviving sons then inherited it.
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