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Good Morning Friends,
I am attaching a picture of the Gamble House by the Greene and Greene Brothers. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Respectfully, Ralph Jones http://hometown.aol.com/ralj7/index.htm  |
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Ralph,
The Gamble House is a truly wonderful experience in person... Being there creats an atmosphere that fills the air with the importance and beauty of simplicity and utility. My family spent half a day there and toured both the house and the garden. It is a true testimony to the Greenes and their vision. The dining table has several additonal leaves to it and the architect designed a custom built storage for them next to the dining room. There was little that they did not think about. No detail was left to chance. The Gamble house has recently undergone an exterior restoration to fix the shingles and dryrotting timbers. I look foreward to revisisting this house and the others in this Pasadena neighborhood. As a metalsmith I was taken by the ironwork used to fasten the beams together. Fred Fred (Moderator) http://fredz49.blogspot.com/ |
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Good Morning Fred,
I would give most anything to be able to go to the different houses and homes designed by the great architects of the years gone by, but alas it just isn't to be. They are too far away for me to partake unlike one of the fellows on this forum who lives in Aurora, NY. The good Lord says not to be envious of others but, I am only human and believe that if he feels it would be good, he would provide a way. Respectfully, Ralph Jones http://hometown.aol.com/ralj7/index.htm |
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Fred,
I am going to attach the West Face of Frank Lloyd Wright's home in Chicago, IL that I would also love to visit. Respectfully, Ralph Jones http://hometown.aol.com/ralj7/index.htm  |
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there are so many places i want to visit i couldnt begin to name them all.
i have been to the flw house. if i can find the slides i will scan and try to post. i did a pilgrimage a number of years ago, visiting flw and louis sullivan buildings in indiana, chicago, wisconsin, and others. took lots of slides. as an architecture student at carnegie in pittsburgh, i visited falling water six or seven times, in all seasons. but there are still hundreds of sites i would love to see. |
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Along the lines of the Gamble house.....are there any forums dedicated just to Greene and Greene?
Thanks for any help! Warm Regards, Julia citrusgirl@hotmail.com |
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Julia,
I am not aware of a specific forum dedicated to the Greene brothers and there work. http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/greeneandgreene/ There is a website with Greene images and information. There also is a site dedicated to the Gamble house. http://www.gamblehouse.org/ I invite you to become a member of this group and start a post dedicated to Greene and Greene and see what sort of activity and interest you develope. There are no fees or dues. Fred Fred (Moderator) http://fredz49.blogspot.com/ |
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good deal....I've already signed up.
 I will start a new thread about this. My family lives in a Greene and Greene home that was designed by the Greenes and built by my great grandfather. I'm really just interested in meeting up with others who are enthusastic about the Greene's beautiful work. |
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Julia,
How lucky is that!.... I am thrilled that you are willing to share the details of your family home. Will you be able to post pictures? I am certain you will eventually generate great interest in your post. Greene and Greene were very influential architects of the period and their work is much admired. Is your home in California? Pasadena has several Greene homes. Is your home documented in any books or in a registry of Greene & Greene homes? Did they design any furniture for your home? Fred Fred (Moderator) http://fredz49.blogspot.com/ |
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http://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/ggva/search?keyword=richardson&sort=project
thats the link to the website with photos of it being built in 1929-1930. My great grandfather knew the Greenes as he had worked with them in Pasadena. When he decided to move to a less populated area, he asked them to design a house that would fit in with the surroundings. It is in most of the books, as the Walter L Richardson home. He did do several pieces of furniture for teh house...most notable a beautiful dining room table that my parents still use to this day. I think it's going to be coming out in a book by Randal Mackinson soon. (They just did a photo shoot) The house was also on a PBS special a couple of years ago. It was teh last one featured. Anyways.....must return to work. Julia |
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Julia,
Great images! Solar panels in the courtyard? Where did those come from? I look forward to seeing the images in the new book. How wonderful that you have been able to live in it all these years and that the building remains in tact. I suspect the area around it now is built up. Do you have present day images? Thanks for sharing. PS. Once you begin the new Greene and Greene topic, I will try to move these few postings to the new topic Fred Fred (Moderator) http://fredz49.blogspot.com/ |
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here's a more recent pic. It really hasn't grown up around the house much...yet. Since it's an opporating farm still, we have quite a buffer zone from others. (my parents still farm)
Solar panels....i had questioned those as well...but apparently they were original on the house. My great grandfather wanted the house to be pretty self sufficient. I don't live there now.....but my parents do. Eventually my husband and I will move there.....  |
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Fred,
As a moderator you could just retitle this as the "Greene and Greene Thread", since it now has some added and interesting discussion. |
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stonecat, where ya been?
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..can't a guy take a few days off?
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anyone been to the Dana Thomas home in springfield, Il ??
That is one fantastic home... |
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Stonecat,
I haven't found a way of renaming the original post by Ralph. What I probably will do is create a new Greene & Green topic and then move or copy the posts over. I have never heard of the Dana Thomas house. Do they give tours? I hope next year to travel back to Pasadena and revisit the Gamble House and see more of the homes in the area. Julia, Thanks for the recent image. I love the details of construction which is so evident in Greene homes. Classic porch light. It is wonderful that it is so intact. I do not know of any othere G & G home that has the original owners or decendants still living in it. The Gamble House stayed in possession of the Gamble family until they donated it to the City of Pasdena and the University. Some of the Architecture students are chosen to live in the home and be caretakers of the home. The exterior of the home has recently undergone extensive restoration. Fred Fred Fred (Moderator) http://fredz49.blogspot.com/ |
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surprisingly i can't find any images on the web of the dana thompson house. i will pull some wright books this weekend and post some scans.
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..just click the edit button in the first message (not the last or any other one) and the original message and the original title will come up for editting..I've done it with Furniture messages so I would think it works the same here.. |
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I can remember visiting the Gamble house when i was little...and talking with the students who were living there at the time. We actually stayed at the Gamble house one weekend which was really cool. I got to stay in Aunt Julia's room... (which is really creepy actually) Reading some of the articles on the other site, Hewn and Hammered, has shocked me. What are other people's thoughts on Randal Mackinson having the big auction of G&G artifacts?? I think it's horribly wrong as he was curator of the Gamble house for so many years. My parents and I now wonder if some of the items in his auction were from our house.  Randall befriended my grandparents and they would have trusted him with anything. |
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