James Kennedy Moffitt house, 86 Sea View Avenue, Piedmont, California. (LOC)
Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
[James Kennedy Moffitt house, 86 Sea View Avenue, Piedmont, California. View from house to water terrace]
[1917 spring]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Willis Jefferson Polk, built 1912.
Landscape: Probably Willis Jefferson Polk. Associated Name: Pauline
Fore (Mrs. James K.) Moffitt. Today: Only house extant.
Slide used with lecture "California Gardens" as no. 92.
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 157.
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.16034
Call Number: LC-J717-X97- 35
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artolog (8 months ago | reply)
If you have $5,150,000.00 to spare, you can have this for your own. I doubt if the present view of the garden is this pastoral, though.
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