"Il Paradiso," Mrs. Dudley Peter Allen house, 1188 Hillcrest Avenue, Oak Knoll, Pasadena, California. (LOC)
Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
["Il Paradiso," Mrs. Dudley Peter Allen house, 1188 Hillcrest Avenue, Oak Knoll, Pasadena, California. Loggia]
[1917 spring]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Greene & Greene, 1911-1913.
Landscape: Greene & Greene, 1911-1913. Other: Elisabeth Severance
(Mrs. Dudley P.) Allen married Francis Fleury Prentiss the year
Frances Benjamin Johnston photographed the house and garden. Cordelia
Culbertson, original builder, sold the house in 1917. Today: Private
house, garden not extant.
Slide used with lecture "California Gardens" as no. 17.
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 114.
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.16014
Call Number: LC-J717-X97- 15
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pennylrichardsca (8 months ago | reply)
AKA the Cordelia Culbertson house:
cwis.usc.edu/dept/architecture/greeneandgreen e/137b.html
Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss elsewhere on Flickr (at her other house, Glenallen Estate in Cleveland Heights OH):
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karakutaia (8 months ago | reply)
lovely capture！
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