On the issue of house numbers, the first numbers applied to subdivisions in  
the 1926 community of Kensington (San Diego, California) were random because 
the  houses were all custom and many vacant lots existed for a number of years. 
 Around 1938, the City of San Diego (for reasons unknown) changed all those  
addresses and created a more systematic set of addresses. Were it not for the  
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps that listed both addresses (and thus became the  
"Rosetta Stone" of local history), no one today could connect names with 
street  addresses. Still though, street addresses were not uniformly applied 
throughout  the region and many did not begin to appear until the 1950s. None the 
less,  houses with names other than the occupants were rare. Since I began this 
post  with houses by names, I should list those that I do know: La Casa de las 
Siete  Candelas; Villa Montezuma; Page Manor; and Sea Bluff. Undoubtedly, 
more will be  revealed in time.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.