Pink Saturday - Pink Victorian cottage

Pink Saturday - Beverly, at the blog "How Sweet the Sound" hosts Pink Saturday. Let the color pink inspire you!

Pink Saturday comes in between two installments of posts about Victorian Los Angeles, so I thought I'd share this pink Victorian cottage, located on Kellam Avenue in Angelino Heights in Los Angeles's Echo Park neighborhood.

This pretty little cottage was built in 1899 by German immigrant John Fonnell. Look at the pretty floral wreath carvings and detail.

A few years later, Mr. Fonnell bought another house in the new seaside resort of Venice. Built in 1906, it was one of the first houses built by Abbott Kinney, and is now the oldest house still standing in Venice.

Its Moorish-domed turret once looked over the Cabrillo Canal, plied by gondolas floating beneath an arched Venetian bridge, as shown in this vintage postcard.

Did his family outgrow the tiny cottage on the hill and move to the west side, or did they just want a summer cottage closer to the beach?

Fonnell's Venice house is known today as the Venice of America House, and is located at 1223 Cabrillo Avenue. Its archways echo those of the remaining colonnades on Windward Avenue. The Canal itself is gone, filled in during the 1920s.

It may not have been pink when he bought it - but today it's a pretty color - peachy pink!

Both the Angelino Heights house and the Venice house are named Historic Cultural Monuments fby the City of Los Angeles. The Venice house is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Pretty cool that both of Mr. Fonnell's houses are listed - and even cooler that they are both restored, loved, and lived-in.

Go here to visit more houses in Angelino Heights, and see the vanished Victorian treasures that once graced Bunker Hill. If you'd like to comment please feel free to comment on this post or on the earlier one - I enjoy hearing what you have to say.

Stay tuned for Victorian Los Angeles - Part Two, coming soon.