Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society house tour spotlights a 1908 survivor brought back from the brink.

AS an architectural photographer and confirmed "house-aholic," Mary E. Nichols has seen many a residential wreck. But the 1908 specimen at 212 S. Wilton Place -- part of an L.A. street listed on the National Register of Historic Places -- was a house of horrors.

By Martha Groves

October 4, 2008