Modernism...on Bunker Hill?

Yes! Plus saucy pirates!

Quick! Think of old Bunker Hill!

What comes to mind…a ramshackle Victorian manse covered in gingerbread and spindlework?

Or the cool streamlined forms of a machine-age apartment-house, whose white-plastered cubistic volumes, corner windows, and pilotis evoke Milton J. Black and William Kesling?

Behold! the Avalon, at Second and Grand — one of the Hill’s lesser-known structures.

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https://bunkerhilllosangeles.com/2025/01/26/sally-brown-at-the-avalon-apartments/

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I am extra enthused about the subject because my buddy’s great-aunt lived there:

And I can’t not tell the story about a woman who lived in the most amazing building on Bunker Hill, and was also a Balboa pirate —

So take a look!

https://bunkerhilllosangeles.com/2025/01/26/sally-brown-at-the-avalon-apartments/