We also have this house in PA.
I think there is a duck or goose house somewhere too.

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Targa911S, nice digs. Thanks for sharing some of the pads in your 'hood.

Here are lame pics of our modest, somewhat bastardized Roger Lee designed home, built in 1957.

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This MCM house where Dave Brubeck used to live in my neighborhood

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They had a collection of her original draft work for Hearst Castle at the Getty recently. Really neat stuff!

ikarcuaso, thanks for the comps. I like yours too! The Brubeck house is a WOW!!

There is another very cool Scholz house down the road, if I get out today I'll snap one of it for everybody.

Is that a 356 I see?

The Brubeck house is very cool. Another style I've been interested in are the "Sears & Roebuck" mailorder houses. Amazing costs for construction in 1908.
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A few weeks after the order was placed, two boxcars containing 30,000 pieces of house would arrive at the nearest train depot. A 75-page, leather-bound instruction book told homeowners how to assemble those 30,000 pieces. The book offered this somber (and probably wise) warning: "Do not take anyone's advice as to how this building should be assembled."

The kit included 750 pounds of nails, 22 gallons of paint and varnish and20,000 shingles for the roof and siding. Sears estimated in 1908 that acarpenter would charge $450.00 to assemble Modern Home #111, The Chelsea.

According to the company's calculations, a painter would want $34.50 to paint the two-story foursquare. The plasterer's bill would be around $200, they figured, which included nailing up 840 square yards of wooden lath and applying three coats of plaster. Masonry and plaster was not included in the kit, but the Bill of Materials list advised that 1,100 cement blocks would be neededfor the basement walls and foundation

Great thread!!!

Keep them coming!

Mike

yes I see a 356 also...good eye!

Nixon was born in one similar to that in Yorba Linda, CA.

Don't know the architect, but this one near me always reminded me of a FLW.

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Some more from the a.m.
 

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The only Greene and Greene near me - being professionally restored.


A local college admin house
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The following were all built by the same Polish immigrant - although the neighborhood is know locally as the "Russian Village". All built in the 20's and near a dry wash, this guy, with no education nor architectural experience, built 14 of these from river rock and broken concrete. Many of the tiles came from a local school district whose building fell in an earthquake. This guy's stuff, however, has withstood some pretty big temblors!

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On a side note - there are a great many residential, commercial and infrastructure projects around our foothills built of river rock - a resource much more abundant than wood. Locals claim that much of the work was done by Chinese labor when their railroad work in the latter part of the 19th century ran out.

What's the matter with them? :rolleyes:

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I need to get pictures of the house my uncle designed and built himself. He is an art teacher and it took him over 20yrs. Its on stilts and is freaking awesome....

It is a Green and Green house. It's referred to as the Duncan-Irwin house (1902), remodeled and enlarged by G&G and later was purchased by Grady's grandparents.

Here's a slide show of images with Grady, Milt, Chris, David, Bert, Jack, Harry and others. When the current owner found out Grady's family used to own it, he invited us in for an impromptu tour; it's usually not open to the public.

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Grady brought along one of the many photo albums his mother created; this one showing many scenes of the family, the surrounding area and the house.
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Sherwood

Not CA, but thought it might be appreciated.

Woodworker Wharton Esherick helped to create the American sculptural style early in the 20th century in a studio in Paoli, Pennsylvania, just of outside Philadelphia. His wonderfully quirky home studio, which was designed by famed architect Louis Kahn, is open for tours by appointment only.
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TSK TSK DAeppe...Claremont, CA....I know those houses...

Wallace Neff is another early 20's to 70's CA architect of some renown. When I lived in So CAl I always would try and take the Pasadena Showcase House Home Tour held in the spring. Some really awesome homes were showcased.

I once even saw a CA Plein Aire Painting done circa 1910 on e-bay by a well known Pasadena, CA artist of a home that was on the home tour that year. The painting went to Holland.

Not a fan of Claremont Tabby? Or just the liberals therein?

Can't say's that I blame you...

F L W house in grosse point shores across the st from my dads place in the 40's

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Yes they sure did. They did a couple of them doen the street from the Gamble house. And a few around the Pasadena Altadena area. I was lucky enough to restore one up in Altadena for a client last year. It was one of their smaller homes. Aged 10 years in 2 , but it was a lot of fun.

Milt,

Is that a Greene and Greene and is it located near the Gamble house or over near the Linda Vista side. It must be a treat to see the place. I wonder is the work is as detail as the Gamble house. I have work on a few of those old craftsmans around the Rose Bowl. I try to learn who's who just to keep up.

That's near Glendora San Dimes somewhere? where is that Greene and Greene, is that off California Blvd? We study and research like heck and seen a bunch before we started that job without any architects involved.

That last batch is in Claremont, CA.

Oh man I SO want that vehicle!! What is that???

Carson House - Eureka, CA......I often stop by and take a photo when on m/c trips:

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Here is a house built by the Doheny family in the 20s. It is over 5000sq feet on five lots on the cliffs in Dana Point. The owner is trying to get rid of the house, give it to the city and have them move it or get a permit to demolish it. It is on five lots and they can build and make some money. The second plicture shows the ocean through the window.

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Very cool house. The Doheny's were pretty neat people - gave a lot of that oil money away!

Thought I recognized them. I lived on N Mills just north of the train tracks in Claremont faculty housing. Was a broken-down craftsman. After we moved out they finally rehabbed it. We bought a Mediterranean craftsman in Historic Highlands section of Pasadena. The west side house is a 50's modern that was designed by the guy who built it and lived there. Very cool mix of angles and round wood.

I have to say that I don't care for Gheary's house. Feels like he's trying too hard with the design. But everyone has an opinion...

A Stout Scarab. Only about nine made, so lots of luck with finding one.

This looks a lot like the house I was raised in. It's a post adobe. My father designed it and built it himself. The second picture is the Ortega Adobe. My dad borrowed the full-length veranda from the Ortega. It was a beautiful home to live in. The fireplace was made of California lava rock. Every interior wall was 8" thick adobe block. The cedar ceiling had 12" beams. The front doors were rough hewn redwood recovered from bridge footings. They weighed 500 pounds each and required a counterbalance so they would swing easily.

Natural California adobe.
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The Ortega adobe.
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