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Lanterman House

Architect
Arthur L. Haley
Year
1915
Style
Craftsman / Bungalow
City
Los Angeles, CA
Lanterman House
Photo: Cbl62, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Lanterman House is a 1915 Craftsman bungalow in La Cañada Flintridge commissioned by Dr. Roy Lanterman and built by A. L. Haley. Having treated victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, Lanterman insisted the foundation, floors, and walls be poured in reinforced concrete, and Haley translated the wood-bungalow vocabulary of the Craftsman style into that material.

the building

Ballroom and consulting rooms. The entire second floor is given over to a grand ballroom, while Dr. Lanterman's medical consulting rooms occupied the basement. Both survive today with much of the house's original furniture and finishes intact.

the style

Haley built in the American Craftsman bungalow idiom but in reinforced concrete rather than the wood typical of the style, a substitution driven by Lanterman's earthquake concerns rather than aesthetics.

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the architect

A. L. Haley (b. 1865) was a prominent Los Angeles-area builder of both houses and commercial buildings. Lanterman House is his documented residential commission for Dr. Roy Lanterman.

significance

Lanterman House is a California Point of Historical Interest and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It opened as a house museum in 1993, run by the Lanterman Foundation, and holds the Lanterman House Archives of family and local historical records.

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