The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 50, November 27, 2005, Article 11

BRUCE MCALL'S LOS ANGELES HOME SAVED FROM DEMOLITION

An historic home once owned by coin dealer Bruce McNall
Will be moved to save it from demolition in Los Angeles.

According to a November 26 article in The New York Times,
"Paul Revere Williams, who designed the Morris Landau House,
could not have lived in the tony Holmby Hills section of
Los Angeles when the home was built there.

Williams was black, and in 1936, the year he completed
the red brick English-country-style residence, African-
Americans were barred by restrictive covenants and
prevailing biases from owning property in the best parts
of the city."

"By the time he died in 1980, black celebrities were
moving into Beverly Hills and Bel Air. The Landau House,
meanwhile, named for the South African merchant who
commissioned it, would continue passing from owner to
owner, among them Bruce McNall, who built a vast fortune
as a coin collector before going to prison for fraud,
and Ronald O. Perelman, Revlon's chairman."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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