 Daeida Wilcox, with husband H. H. Wilcox the founders of Hollywood, was so eager to attract culture to the town that she gave him her homesite for his estate, three lots on Cahuenga on the north of Prospect (later Hollywood Boulevard), in exchange for three of his paintings.In 1901, Canadian architect Louis Bourgeois designed a landmark residence for the estate, in the Mission Revival style.The house included an art gallery to sell prints of de Longpré's paintings, and was surrounded by the expansive ""Le Roi de Fleur"" flower gardens.