"Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. (LOC)
Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Lower garden, view to swimming pool]
[1917 spring]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Italianate mission style house by
Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead, built by Christopher Tornoe and expanded by
E. Russell Ray in 1911 for George Owen Knapp. Landscape: Francis
Townsend Underhill, lower garden, 1914; Carlton Monroe Winslow with
Charles Gibbs Adams, upper garden, circa 1913; Charles R. Waugh,
1912-1928, estate superintendant; John Scott, head gardener.
Associated Name: Louise Savage (Mrs. George O.) Knapp. Today: Garden
subdivided.
Slide used with lecture "California Gardens" as no. 62.
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 145.
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.16086
Call Number: LC-J717-X98- 12
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