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Greene & Greene at Princeton
GREENE & GREENE AT PRINCETON: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICA 1876-1916 The Arts & Crafts world marked an important anniversary in 2022. It’s been fifty years since the first milestone exhibition dedicated to the Arts & Crafts movement brought together significant furniture, decorative arts, printed materials, and textiles made around the U.S. to recognize that turn of the century moment in American decorative arts. The exhibition was organized …Read More
DOOR OF HOPE DOLLS
Upstairs at the Gamble House, two curio cabinets contain many small objects collected by the Gamble family on their 1908 trip to Japan, China and Korea. Visitors often want to pause on the way into the two adjacent bedrooms to examine these treasures, but time, low light, and a locked cabinet door mean that few get the chance to do so. Below, a discussion of the few of these objects …Read More
Edith Claypole
EDITH CLAYPOLE: OUTSTANDING RESEARCH SCIENTIST IS EARLY GREENE & GREENE CLIENT by Ann Scheid When Edith Claypole (1870-1915) received her M.D. degree from the Medical College of the University of Southern California in June 1904, she was living in her Greene and Greene bungalow at 50 South Grand Avenue in Pasadena. Already a noted research scientist when she commissioned the Greenes to design her house in 1903, Claypole requested that …Read More
A Friendly Correspondence
A FRIENDLY CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE WIDOW OF A PRESIDENT by Ann Scheid Lucretia Garfield’s correspondence with Charles Greene begins in May 1903, after she had spent some months in Pasadena. At the time, the Greenes had just completed plans for the Darling house in Claremont, and had several projects underway, including houses for Arturo Bandini, Josephine Van Rossem, Edith Claypole, and Jennie Reeve in Long Beach. How Mrs. Garfield learned …Read More
THE GOULD HOUSE: A HENRY GREENE DESIGN
THE GOULD HOUSE: A HENRY GREENE DESIGN by Mary Jane Penzo & Judy Warren The Gould Residence in Ventura County is one of the best-documented structures designed by Henry Greene, and it is the only Henry Greene-designed residence, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The structure itself has fine examples of the kind of detail work we have come to expect in Greene-designed structures (and for which we …Read More
Special Gifts Permit Us To Do Special Things
December 2018 To the Many Friends of the Gamble House: As this most eventful year comes to a close, I can’t help but focus on two things: first, how lucky we are in this community to have a place and a now fully mature institution such as the Gamble House in our midst, and second how important it is that such places have the broad and deep support of their …Read More
ALTADENA’S FAMOUS MOUNT LOWE RAILWAY
ALTADENA’S FAMOUS MOUNT LOWE RAILWAY by Kathy Hoskins When Aunt Julia sat on her sleeping porch to enjoy the warm winter sun, she had a spectacular view of one of Southern California’s most popular tourist attractions of the day: the Mt. Lowe Railway. The railway that took travelers from Altadena to the base of Mt. Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains was the project of Prof. Thaddeus S.C. Lowe. Professor …Read More
STICKLEY: A DESK CHAIR AND A COMPANY
STICKLEY: A DESK CHAIR AND A COMPANY by Mary Jane Penzo The maker of the new Armless Swivel Office Chair #89-3295 that is in Mr. Gamble’s den is L.&J.G. Stickley. The chair is one of the designs the company created when it began offering its Mission line of Arts & Crafts furniture in 1989. All five Stickley brothers—Gustav, Charles, Albert, Leopold, and John George—were in the furniture manufacturing business. They …Read More
THE ALL-NEW 1915 RAUCH AND LANG ELECTRIC
THE ALL-NEW 1915 RAUCH AND LANG ELECTRIC by Robert Siminger During some recent conversations with Anne Mallek she mentioned that in 1909, David Gamble notes among his assets one “Electric.” Meaning an electric automobile. By 1912, Mary Gamble refers to a “new” electric car a Rauch and Lang, which will be coming in January. David noted separately that he wants a Rauch and Lang model that will accommodate three in …Read More