...and Xavier Cugat on the right.
Thx
e_r for the PC of the 50-room home of Chicagoan John Durand, built from 1902-1905 of the finest materials, including red sandstone from Flagstaff. It's one of Frederick Roehrig's. He also designed the Rindge home in the West Adams district, the Neff/McNally estate in La Mirada, the Grace home (& water tower) and Hotel Green/Castle Green in Pasadena, all discussed here, plus many others including several others on Pasadena's Millionaires Row. After John Durand III died in 1960, the contents were sold and the home cleared in favor of the 710 freeway, which was thwarted. After 40 years as a vacant lot, three acres of the original ten became Arlington Gardens at Arlington Drive and S Pasadena Ave. The passive park includes a nice planting of Cherokee roses to echo the famous hedge which stretched the length of the Durand's Arlington Drive property line:
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The house is rather reminiscent, I think, of John Parkinson's smaller, 35-room Susana Machado Bernard Residence, of the same 'fantasy baronial' era, if you recall that one:
ryerson and burnham archives/art institute of chicago
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And here's the same image, now only identified as "Palatial":
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