Genre: Black-and-white photographs / Location: California--Montecito - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Handwriting on back of photograph states: A.E. Dietrich [Dieterich] - Fore court Montecito - 3-28-31
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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.
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: The Lansdowne Hermes statue is now in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Handwriting on back of photograph states: Montecito 3/1/30 Mrs. Craig Herberton - 131 Mesa Rd.
Date:: March 1, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Also known as El Fureidis, the Gillespie residence and grounds, built in 1906, were designed by the architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. The grounds of the ten acre estate were modeled on Persian style water gardens.
Date:: August 27, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: View towards narrow, shallow pool and stairs ascending towards the house within an allée of columnar cypress trees
Date:: August 27, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: View towards forecourt, demarcated by clipped hedges, and facade of house with planting beds on either side of the doorway
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: View towards service court (?) bordered by a low wall and ivy-covered concrete posts, with trees beyond
Date:: August 27, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Handwriting on back of photograph: W.S. Luddington [sic]- Montecito
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Wisteria lined terrace with brick pavement and bowl of gourds on round pedestal table, in corner with potted plants on low retaining wall
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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