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ARCHITECTS & THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE

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September 30, 2018
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ARCHITECTS & THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE Dan Askenaizer It was 5:12 am, Wednesday, April 18, 1906, when a massive earthquake struck San Francisco.  Although this was some thirty years before the development of the Richter scale, geologists today estimate the earthquake’s magnitude at 7.8. Fires raged for days after the earthquake, causing 90% of the damage, but many buildings of all descriptions had been destroyed by the earthquake itself. The …Read More

The Gambles, a Japanese Artist, and the Early Stars of Silent Film

By Gamble House
September 12, 2018
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THE GAMBLES, A JAPANESE ARTIST AND THE EARLY STARS OF SILENT FILM by Anne Mallek In the last, issue, I wrote about A. C. Vroman’s interest in Japan and his significant collection of Japanese netsuke, which as a young teenager Clarence Gamble had the opportunity to view first-hand. From Japanese tea gardens to curiosity shops, Pasadena in the early 1900s exhibited all of the signs of having succumbed to the …Read More

The Influence of Japan

By Gamble House
August 29, 2018
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THE INFLUENCE OF JAPAN by Anne Mallek  We are all aware of the influence of Japanese design in the Greenes’ work, and of the popularity of Japanese culture in and around Pasadena when The Gamble House was being built – whether embodied in George Turner Marsh’s Japanese tea garden, or the half-dozen or more purveyors of “Japanese Art Goods” listed in the city’s directories. The Pasadena Daily News thus declared …Read More

The Living Room Desk

By Gamble House
August 14, 2018
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THE LIVING ROOM DESK by Elizabeth Harris As I have been leading tours of The Gamble House for years, I have become especially interested in imagining the Gamble family members as they went about their actual lives in this marvelous house with its extraordinary furniture. Desks were vitally important in those days. Just as most of us today use computers and frequently travel with our cell phones and laptops, many …Read More

Archives News Summer 2018

By Gamble House
June 7, 2018
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NEWS FROM THE GREENE & GREENE ARCHIVES by Ann Scheid Recent Gifts: Filmmaker Paul Bockhorst donated materials used in the production of the documentary Greene & Greene: The Art of Architecture from 2003. Includes production logs, videocassettes and audiocassettes with interviews (raw data for the film), transcripts, script and final DVDs. Paul plans to also donate the materials related to other documentaries by him on Arts and Crafts architecture in …Read More

An Intriguing Neighbor

By Gamble House
April 5, 2018
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An Intriguing Neighbor: Josephine Van Rossem by Jennifer Trotoux As the Gamble House staff prepares for the upcoming Greene & Greene Home Tour, “At Home in Little Switzerland,” we are reacquainted with the fascinating character of Josephine Van Rossem. Her name is constantly on our lips as we speak of the Park Place tract (which we now know as the Arroyo Terrace neighborhood), and with good reason, as she commissioned …Read More

Gamble House Cookbook History

By Gamble House
January 4, 2018
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AN ALMOST DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF GAMBLE HOUSE COOKBOOKS By Barbara Harris Cury, Gamble House History Committee One in a series of History Committee presentations chronicling the evolution and contributions of the Docent Council. When The Gamble House Docent Council went to work in 1966, then as now Docents were eager to pepper their main Docent activities of housekeeping and touring with social occasions to welcome professionals and the community to …Read More

There’s No Place Like Home

By Gamble House
August 10, 2017
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A GREENE & GREENE LANTERN FINDS ITS WAY BACK by Ted Bosley The news came to me on May 12, in an email from a friend: a Greene & Greene lantern was up for sale on Craig’s List. Even though I typically discover that these listing usually involve modern reproductions, I hurried to check out this particular lead. From the photo on Craig’s List I was pretty sure that this …Read More

Exclusionary Covenants in Pasadena

By Gamble House
May 18, 2017
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International Museum Day 2017 The worldwide community of museums celebrate International Museum Day on and around May18, 2017 around the theme Museums and contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums. This theme focuses on the role of museums that, by working to benefit society, become hubs for promoting peaceful relationships between people. The acceptance of a contested history is the first step in envisioning a shared future under the banner …Read More