The Arturo Bandini residence reshaped the Greenes’ thinking
on defining California Architecture. Bandini's father, Don Juan
Bandini, was an important figure in California’s political
and economic history. With his wife, Helen Elliott Bandini,
whose father had been a founder of Pasadena, they desired a
design that would reflect the romance of the pueblo and rancho
life of the early Californians. The design made use of both
the classic u-shaped plan of the casa de rancho and
the needs and materials of a modern California home. Although
built of wood rather than adobe, it had a welcoming open courtyard
flanked on three sides by sheltering corredores. Posts
that sat on partly sunken stones, thereby blending Hispanic
traditions with traditional Japanese building methods, supported
the roofs of these verandas. The house was demolished in the
1960s.
