Old California Residential Architecture - Random Photos

[targa911S]

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

[ikarcuaso]

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.







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

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Originally Posted by Stanley

I'm surprised Julia Morgan hasn't been referenced yet. Along with Hearst Castle she designed many other houses throughout the Bay Area. This a Julia Morgan house that some friends of mine lived in for a few years in Berkeley. Really cool house!

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

[targa911S]

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.

[Tishabet]

Originally Posted by ikarcuaso

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

Is that a 356 I see?

[craigster59]

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.



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

[MOMO3.2]

Great thread!!!

Keep them coming!

Mike

[targa911S]

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

[daepp]

Originally Posted by craigster59

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.

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

[daepp]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Nice thread. I love houses with character, even if the style doesn't really do it for me. Every once and a while I'll drive by a house and think, "I bet that house is really interesting inside". While not as "out there" as some previously posted, I've always been a big fan of Frank Lloyd Wright. Here's the Allen-Lambe house in Wichita.

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

[daepp]

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


A local college admin house






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!









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.

[ikarcuaso]

Originally Posted by The Gaijin

Thinking about the junk built today makes me puke!

What's the matter with them?

[porsche4life]

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....

[911pcars]

Originally Posted by milt

This house had a view of the Rose Bowl from the balcony behind Grady.

Oh, and I remember the red shirt, it was DavidI.

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.

http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f34/dontcallmesurely/Duncan-Irwin%20Residence/?action=view&current=de59e31d.pbr

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.


Sherwood

[Robert Adams]

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.

[tabs]

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.

[daepp]

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

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

[nota]

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

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Jared Fenton

The Gamble house is def. something to check out if you are in Pasadena. Also check out some of the modernist stuff around Silverlake/Echo Park areas. Lots of neat little houses tucked up into the hills.

Did Greene and Greene do anything else in SoCal?

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.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by milt

Here's a picture of some of us when Grady Clay was in SoCal. The house was built by Grady's grandfather. I didn't get whether he built it or built had it built for himself.




That's Sherwood on the L (911pcars), then Chris (porcupine), (don't remember his back side), Grady (looking at a map or something), and Jack Olsen. (then another backside)

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.