Wright Saltus Ludington residence, view of oval reflecting pool, Montecito, 1931

Item Overview
- Title
- Wright Saltus Ludington residence, view of oval reflecting pool, Montecito, 1931
- Alternative title
- Wright Saltus Ludington residence
- Photographer
- Cornell, Ralph D.
- Date Created
- March 28, 1931
- Date
- 1931-03-28
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972
Notes
- Description
-
The Ludington estate, also known as Val Verde, Dias Felices, the Henry Dater house, and the Dr. Warren Austin home, was designed by the architect Bertram Grovenor Goodhue, constructed in 1918 and then purchased by Charles H. Ludington in 1924. His son, Wright Saltus Ludington (who inherited the estate in 1927 or 1930), engaged the landscape architect Lockwood de Forest to design the gardens in 1925. Retaining the geometry of Goodhue's design and much of the wilderness, Lockwood transformed the gardens over a period of twenty-three years.
View of the oval reflecting pool with its box hedge border, and hedges and trees beyond. - Caption
- Text from nitrate negative sleeve: W. S. Luddington [Ludington]. Montecito. 3/28/1931.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Dimensions
- 4 x 5 inches
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
black-and-white photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- California--Montecito
- Longitude
- 34.440712183525086
- Latitude
- -119.64924573898315
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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reflecting pools
People
hedges
trees
gardens
Environment - landscape architecture
Find This Item
- Repository
-
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Val Verde (Montecito, Calif.) - Local Identifier
- uclamss_1411_0411
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002b6bfg
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.