Cordelia A. Culbertson House
- Architect
- Greene and Greene
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
- Collection
- greene & greene’s pasadena
The Cordelia A. Culbertson House at 1188 Hillcrest Avenue in Pasadena was built in 1911 by Charles and Henry Greene for Cordelia Culbertson and her two unmarried sisters. In 1917 it became the summer home of Cleveland widow Mrs. Dudley P. Allen and her second husband, Francis F. Prentiss, who died there in 1937; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1985.
the building
Chinese-influenced Craftsman. The Greenes built in their usual Craftsman idiom but layered in Chinese decorative elements, especially on the south side, and used a U-shaped floor plan that recurs across several of their other houses.
Gunite walls, tile roof. Unusually for a Greene and Greene house, the exterior walls are gunite rather than wood, topped with a tile roof, a combination the brothers used nowhere else in their work, wrapped around a central Italian garden.
the style
The house blends the Greenes' signature Craftsman style with Chinese decorative motifs, most visible on the south facade, a combination that recurs through several of their Pasadena commissions.
the architect
Charles and Henry Greene were Pasadena's defining Arts and Crafts architects. The Culbertson House is one of their documented 1911 residential commissions.
significance
The Cordelia A. Culbertson House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1985.
nearby
- Robert R. Blacker House
- Spinks house
- Katherine Emery Estate
- El Molino Viejo
- Rose Court
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