As early as the year 1900, Dr. Alfred G. Schloesser relocated to Hollywood with his wife, Emma, and children as the surgeon favored the warm climate. He began a real estate venture, buying up land just north of Franklin Avenue near present day Argyle Avenue. In 1904, Schloesser was advertising the sale of 20 lots in that area he called the Schloesser Terrace Tract. He decided to build a home on the northeast corner of Franklin and Argyle Avenues with the assistance of Dennis & Farwell, architects, who designed a castle with features taken from Oxford University, his wife's family home in Glengarry, Scotland, and gothic features of the Nuremberg Castle in Germany. The front entrance was an exact replica of the City Hall of Bremen. The Carrera marble lions, which guard the front terrace, stood in front of the palace Italian Cardinal several hundred years earlier. He named the home "Castle Glengarry".