It’s hard to imagine that Hollywood was ever this rural, even in 1895, when this photo was taken. This farmhouse stood at the corner of Western Ave and Hollywood Blvd (which back then was called Prospect Ave (it wouldn’t be renamed Hollywood Boulevard until the early 1910s)) and by the looks of it was stuck out the middle of nowhere. The streetcar system didn’t get up and running until 1901 so these people were strictly the horse and buggy crowd.

**UPDATE ** – Gary H says: “I believe that the 1895 farmhouse is not at Western Ave, but is actually Mary Penman Moll’s farmhouse located on Prospect Ave, about where the intersection of Highland is today. She agreed to allow grading for Highland Blvd, and named it after her friend Highland Price (wife of the blacksmith), who had recently died in 1899 (and was the first to be buried in the Hollywood Cemetery). Mary demolished the farmhouse and built a new home, a huge Craftsman house on Prospect and Orange (where the Roosevelt Hotel is today). She developed that land where the farmhouse was for the early Hollywood business district…and at least one of those is still standing!“

The same view of Hollywood and Western in June 2017: