In 1923, a 1-story parsonage building of the Ocean Park Methodist Episcopal Church is removed. Two 1-story Spanish Revival apartment buildings are constructed on the corner of Beach and 3rd St. The building is a contributing structure to the Third Street Neighborhood Historic District.
In 1905, the Ocean Park M.E. Church acquires the vacant 50-ft x 130-ft vacant lot on the corner of Beach and 3rd.1 In 1906, the Methodists build2 a parsonage on the property.3
In March 1923, the Ocean Park Methodist Church, to raise funds for their new church at 2nd and Hill, sells the property to Chicago window shade salesman Edward C. Silldorf.4 The parsonage building is moved to 237 Hill St, on the rear of the church lot, and used as the parsonage.
In 1923, Silldorf announces plans for a modern stucco Spanish-style architecture, furnished apartment building with 12 units each with 4 rooms to cost $25,000.
In 1931, two 1-story Spanish Revival apartment buildings with flat roof and stucco exterior are constructed on the property.
In 1886, W.D. Vawter sells lot 10 of Block M of Vawter’s Ocean View Tract to Los Angeles physician Dr. Henry Clay Bagg (1820 – 1903) for $175. In 1905, the Bagg heirs (his wife Marion Elizabeth Bagg (1830 – 1914), son Charles Perry Bagg (1866 – 1928), daughter-in-law Edna Jane Bicknell (1874 – 1949), and son Hamilton Fish Bagg (1850 – 1913)) sell the property to the Ocean Park M-E Church for $650.
The Ocean Park M-E Church pays $675 for the property and $1,800 for the building.
The following Ocean Park M-E Church pastors reside at the parsonage
1911 George Christian Skafte
1916 William John Boyd
1918 Anthony Cummings Welch
1920 William McKinley Walker
Edward Carl Silldorf (1861 – 1943). Born in Chicago. In 1885, he marries Clara Ellen Potter (1859 – 1942). Silldorf is a Chicago window shade salesman. In 1923, he moves to Santa Monica and lives at 827 9th St, where he dies in 1943. His son, Edward H. Silldorf, runs Silldorf Window Shade Shop in Santa Monica.