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 a stone basin on a pedestal in a garden area with brick pavement and a low wall incorporating a bench, with a boxwood hedge and trees visible beyond.
Two views of the Fred G. Young residence under construction and without landscaping. Top photograph captures the back of the residence. The bottom photograph captures the front of the residence. Two unidentified men are standing in the front of the residence.
Wikipedia entry for Culver Crest neighborhood, Culver City, Calif.: "Youngworth Road was named for the early developer, whose home is still on the Marycrest Manor property."