Fickett’s talent: Standing the test of time

I was delighted to read the article on architect Edward H. Fickett [“L.A.’s Great Unknown,” June 29]. He designed a home of my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mel Dorfman, in 1978 in Trousdale Estates. It was featured in Architectural Digest July/August 1980. The home was sold three years ago after my parents had lived in it almost 25 years, a most creative and well-designed house for today as then.

It was a wonderful home built on a difficult lot in Trousdale, with a magnificent view as well as a tennis court. Ed Fickett was a creative architect as well as a wonderful person.

BOBBIE WEINHART

Los Angeles

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DO you know that a street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles is named for the Fickett family?

I am a Los Angeles native and happened to mention Fickett Street in one of my poems, “Boyle Heights,” on the city’s history: “ ... [S]treets are named tough, like Eastern and Fickett and Pecan and Chicago.”

Congratulations on a very informative article.

RANDALL BLOCH

Murrells Inlet, S.C.

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Editor’s note: According to records from the American Institute of Architects, Fickett Street is named after Edward H. Fickett’s grandfather, Edward Fickett Sr., “an early pioneer resident and subdivider of Los Angeles.”