Harlow’s Homes

3344 Olive Street
Kansas City, MO
Harlow’s maternal grandfather’s second house
(1911 to c. 1915)
No longer stands.

4409 Gilham Road
Kansas City, MO
(c. 1915 to c. 1919)
Extant building.

1312 East 79th Street
Kansas City, MO
(c. 1919 to c. late 1922)
Extant building.

Rented room at unknown address on Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
(c. late 1922, per Harlow’s best friend Barbara Brown)
Harlean allegedly lived her with her mother after moving to Los Angeles. See notes on Gramercy Place address below.

1015 South Gramercy Place
Los Angeles, CA
(c. 1922 to c. 1925)
Harlean lived in a room in this home with her mother. It’s probably the place Barbara Brown misremembered as being on Sunset Boulevard. Both addresses are included for clarity.
No longer stands.

1302 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
(1925)
Harlean and her mother moved to this address after a “lack of funds” forced them to, per David Stenn’s Bombshell and the 1925 Los Angeles City Directory.
No longer stands.

516 Knickerbocker Place
Kansas City, MO
(c. 1925 to c. 1926)
Harlean lived here with her mother briefly before moving to Ferry Hall.
No longer stands.

Ferry Hall Girls’ School Dormitories
Lake Forest, IL
(c. 1926 to c.1927)
Harlean lived at this girl’s boarding school until she married Chuck McGrew in September 1927.
Original dorms probably not still standing; two new ones were added in 1929 which were converted to condos in the 1970s and 80s.

618 North Linden Drive
Beverly Hills, CA
(1927 to 1929)
No longer stands.

300 North Maple Drive
Beverly Hills, CA
(1929 to 1931)
No longer stands.

152 Peck Drive
Beverly Hills, CA
(1931)
Harlow lived in an apartment here briefly before moving into the Club View Drive home.
Extant building.

1353 Club View Drive
Los Angeles, CA
(1931 to February 1933)
Extant building.

9820 Easton Drive
Beverly Hills, CA
(July 1932 to September 1932)
Extant building.

*Harlow lived at Club View Drive in the interim between Easton Drive and the completion of Beverly Glen.

214 South Beverly Glen Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA
(February 1933 to May 1936)
Walkthrough and history of the home can be found here.
Extant building.

512 N. Palm Drive
Beverly Hills, CA
(May 1936 to June 1937)
Extant building.

*Harlow never owned or permanently resided in an address in Palm Springs, despite ill-informed guides for the city claiming otherwise.