"Uplands," Charles Templeton Crocker house, 400 Uplands Drive, Hillsborough, California. (LOC)

    Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.

    ["Uplands," Charles Templeton Crocker house, 400 Uplands Drive, Hillsborough, California. View to porte cochère terrace with herbaceous border]

    [1917 spring]

    1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.

    Notes:
     Site History. House: Willis Jefferson Polk, built 1913-1915. Landscape: Willis Jefferson Polk, from 1913 on 160 acres. Other: Garden not extant, house now Crystal Springs Uplands School.
    Slide used with lecture "California Gardens" as no. 94.
    Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011.
    Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
    Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 154.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16106

    Call Number: LC-J717-X98- 32

    Comments and faves

    1. artolog (8 months ago | reply)

      Here's biographical information about Charles Templeton Crocker (1884-1948), grandson of railroad magnate and member of the "The Big Four", Charles Crocker:
      researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/libra ry/special/f...
      This mansion was designed by Willis Polk and was a gift to his wife, sugar heiress Helene Irwin.
      Today it is used as a school.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Springs_Uplands _School

    2. cams4free (2 months ago | reply)

      looks very nice,i wish live here

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