Old California Residential Architecture - Random Photos

[daepp]

I love California bungalows, Moorish, Spanish colonial, Mission...

[Porsche-O-Phile]

There are (surprisingly) a lot of hidden architectural gems around the Long Beach area - you have to look for them though. Buried in a sea of boring stucco lumps.

There's a great book called "The Unexpected Metropolis" by Cara Mullio that is a nice summation of a lot of them. I'd recommend it if you're into these sorts of things...

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Beach-Architecture-Unexpected-Metropolis/dp/0940512394

[Noah930]

Wife took me to tour the Gamble House in Pasadena (thought of it from your first picture). Was a neat experience. I love the diversity of architecture in SoCal, both native and imported.

[Zeke]

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)

[strupgolf]

My brother-in-law and his wife just bought an old house around the area of the rose bowl. It looks like the second photo. It's really nice, need some updating, large lot etc. I cant wait to get out there and see it, maybe next year. That's when houses were homes.

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

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?

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by strupgolf

My brother-in-law and his wife just bought an old house around the area of the rose bowl. It looks like the second photo. It's really nice, need some updating, large lot etc. I cant wait to get out there and see it, maybe next year. That's when houses were homes.

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

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

[craigster59]

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?

Here's another Pasadena house by Greene & Greene..



They designed all over So. Cal, especially Pasadena. There were 2 bunkhouses from a citrus farm in the Fillmore /Santa Paula area that were one of their first commisions. One is still in Fillmore, the other moved to the Citrus Museum in Riverside.

Here's a neat piece of Highland Park architecture built by Jackson Browne's Grandfather and featured on the "For Everyman" album, Abbey San Encino..

[ikarcuaso]

Mid century modern, anyone?

The Kaufmann desert house in Palm Springs, designed by Richard Neutra, circa 1946

[dd74]

A Frank Ghery in Santa Monica.

[HardDrive]

LOVE mid century modern. My parents collect Heywood Wakefield blond furniture.

Originally Posted by ikarcuaso

Mid century modern, anyone?

The Kaufmann desert house in Palm Springs, designed by Richard Neutra, circa 1946

[kach22i]

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)

That sure looks like a Greene & Greene Architects to me.

[daepp]

Never pass up an opportunity to tour a Greene and Greene house - IMHO!

Pasadena and surroundings were heavily populated by Easterners who came west for their health - most importantly, breathing issues.

The Greenes' father was the then equivalent of a pulmonologist - a lung doctor back then. Amongst other phenomenal designs, their houses prominently featured fresh-air devices and designs. Not the least of which were sleeping porches - screened in areas off of the main bedrooms for sleeping when it was warm. They were all fleeing the coal fired, consumption prone East.

And then there's the exposed joinery...

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by daepp

Never pass up an opportunity to tour a Greene and Greene house - IMHO!

In one of the "Back to the Future" movies, I think the first one they seem to be in a Green & Green similar to the above photo.

Drives me crazy (in a good way) how many FLW homes are filmed in.

[woodman]

Originally Posted by dd74

A Frank Ghery in Santa Monica.

That's his residence. Been there 30 years now I think.

My pediatrician here in the LBC had Neutra build him a house in Park Estates, The Matlock Residence on Ramillo St. A cool book is Long Beach Architecture: The Unexpected Metropolis. Yes, I am a fan of schlong beach, the ghetto by the sea...

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by woodman

That's his residence. Been there 30 years now I think.

My pediatrician here in the LBC had Neutra build him a house in Park Estates, I forget the name at the moment. A cool book is Long Beach Architecture: The Unexpected Metropolis. Yes, I am a fan of schlong beach, the ghetto by the sea...

You beat me to it. Yes, that's Frank G's house. Been to it a few times myself.

[woodman]

Good article on the LATimes Sunday about him. I'd like to see him move on from the current style. Bilboa, WDCH, ok, I get it, that's what he'll be remembered for. I was privileged to be work on the concert hall. Insane construction fo sho...

[craigster59]

You can't leave out the Eichler homes, lots up in Palo Alto and a few in Thousand Oaks.

[ikarcuaso]

NorCal representin'

Before/after of a beautifully remodeled bungalow in Alameda






The William Thorsen house in Berkeley, one of the few Greene & Greene designs in the Bay Area, currently a Cal frat house

[porsche4life]

Some neat stuff.

Any guesses where this is?