Error on History of Leonis Adobe

Your list of 33 San Fernando Valley historic-cultural monuments (Feb. 15) included the Leonis Adobe in Calabasas. You say, “Once the oldest home in West Hollywood, it was saved from demolition and moved to Calabasas five years ago.” This seems rather odd to me as I remember well being taken to the Adobe as a child for Easter egg hunts and Cub Scout events. I turn 22 in March and don’t remember the Adobe’s being moved anywhere!

To further prove my point that the Leonis Adobe was never moved from West Hollywood, I will quote a passage from page 43 of the book entitled “The History of Woodland Hills and Girard”:

“In 1964, Mrs. Beachy sold the west 40 acres of her property to purchase 11 acres which contained the entire business area of nearby Calabasas in order to preserve its western history and the former house of the infamous Miguel Leonis. Plans had been made to destroy Leonis Adobe and put in a supermarket and the owners refused to merely sell her the land on which the Adobe was located. . . . Mrs. Beachy decided that the preservation of the area demanded that the Adobe be save. . . . she purchased the entire town of Calabasas.”

CHRIS HIMES

Woodland Hills

Himes is correct. The house that was moved from West Hollywood to Calabasas is the Plummer House, built in the 1870s, which now sits next door to the Leonis Adobe. During editing, a reference to the Plummer House was deleted from the paragraph in question, creating the error.