Gamble House
- Architect
- Greene and Greene
- Year
- 1908
- Style
- Arts and Crafts
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
- Collection
- greene & greene’s pasadena
The Gamble House is a Craftsman residence in Pasadena designed by the architecture firm Greene and Greene and constructed in 1908-1909 as a winter home for David B. Gamble, son of Procter & Gamble founder James Gamble. Like other wealthy Cincinnati families, the Gambles came west each winter to escape the Midwest cold, and after admiring nearby Greene and Greene houses they hired the brothers in May 1907 to design their own. It is now a National Historic Landmark and California Historical Landmark, open to the public for regular tours and events.
the building
The unaltered interior. Many Greene and Greene houses were altered over the decades and stripped of the furniture the brothers designed specifically for them. The Gamble House is rare in surviving intact, still holding every original piece of Greene and Greene furniture built for its rooms.
A winter home for two. David and Mary Gamble wintered in the house every year, escaping Cincinnati's harsher climate, until their deaths in 1923 and 1929 respectively.
the style
The Gamble House is a textbook exemplar of the American Arts and Crafts movement, its joinery and structural expression pushed so far that the design is sometimes described as the 'ultimate bungalow' — a high-water mark for the style in the United States.
More on Arts and Craftssignificance
The Gamble House holds three of the highest honors in American historic preservation: National Historic Landmark, California Historical Landmark, and National Register of Historic Places status. It remains open to the public for regular tours and events.
nearby
- Millard House
- Norton Simon Museum
- Richard H. Chambers United States Court of Appeals
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