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S.C. Graham House
Los Angeles, California
1911
The never executed S. C. Graham House of 1911 was designed for
a quasi-suburban setting in the Westchester Tract of Los Angeles.
The L-shaped, three-story, sixteen-room mansion included a large
living room (thirty-two feet by twenty-one feet), a spacious
stair-hall, library, and a covered porch along the street elevation.
Tapered buttresses were to support stucco (or possibly Gunite)
covered brick piers. In the English idiom revived for the designs
of the Fleishhacker and A. M. Drake projects, the S. C. Graham
House had understated exposed structural wood beams. On the
inside, however, the walls were to be defined by crisp sectional
wood paneling. The design for the oak-paneled library included
art-glass windows. Plaster ceilings were specified throughout,
and the dining room was to be embellished with a brushed-and-carved
redwood frieze. The house was prominently featured in a Los
Angeles Times newspaper article on December 10, 1911 announcing
its upcoming construction. |
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