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Pasadena, California
1906
In 1906 Frank W. Hawks asked the Greenes to design a house for
his lot near Charles Greene's house on the Arroyo Seco. The
firm's original plans, completed in July, called for a courtyard
plan, similar to that of the Bandini house, but with a grand
double-height living room with exposed trusses and a massive
fireplace. Although Hawks came from a well-to-do family in Goshen,
Indiana, and had married a Wisconsin paper-company heiress,
the house he eventually built on the site was less grand. The
final plans, completed in August, show it to be a close copy
of the straightforward California Craftsman chalet designed
for Louise Bentz in the Prospect neighborhood, with one major
difference: the addition of a deep, covered porch and second-story
balcony on the front, facing the view to the north. The pebble
and brick driveway evokes the bed of a natural stream flowing
down from the reservoir above the property, and the brick and
Arroyo stone pillars flanking it at the sidewalk tie the site
to others in the burgeoning "Little Switzerland" neighborhood.
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