"Glendessary," Robert Cameron Rogers house, Glendessary Lane, Mission Heights, Santa Barbara, California. (LOC)

Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.

 

["Glendessary," Robert Cameron Rogers house, Glendessary Lane, Mission Heights, Santa Barbara, California. Walk from terrace to fountain]

 

[1917 spring]

 

1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Tudor revival house of Mission Canyon stone, designed by Samuel Illsley and built in 1899 by Christopher Tornoe. Landscape: Peter Poole, stone mason, and his brother, Thomas Poole, gardener, from 1900. Associated Name: Beatrice Fernald (Mrs. Robert C.) Rogers. Today: Garden not extant.

Slide used with lecture "California Gardens" as no. 38.

Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011.

Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 128.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16007

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X97- 8

 

 

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