Capture Calif

Capture California

What is a YOLT? Well, you may have heard the term YOLO. Gary and Sherri think we can live again, not as James Bond, but as being reborn. Consequently, we are having fun in our life, after all, You Only Live Twice.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Adventure 051, Site 147 – Baldwin Queen Anne House

Capture California, the Game-2012
Adventure: 051, Site 147 – Baldwin Queen Anne House
California Landmark Number: 367
National Registry ID: 1980000804


Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  October 5, 2012
Location:
Latitude: N 34° 08.479
Longitude: W 118° 03.230
Address: Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, 301 N Baldwin, Arcadia

Description:
Date Built: 1881
Architect: A.A Bennett-the same architect which designed the State Capital and the Merced Courthouse, and father-in-law to EJ Baldwin



This house is just a matter of a hundred feet from the Reid Adobe. It has an appears of a fairy tale house amongst all of the greenery surrounding it. We walked around the house, well until we came to a taped off section due to bees. But the house was closed when we were there. This would be a good backdrop for a celebration. Think of having all of the Arboretium as a place to stroll.



After reading some of the information concerning the house, it is right. Even thought the house was made as a guesthouse, it reminded Thing One more of a gazebo or recreational house than a place for someone to live.




NO. 367 E. J. BALDWIN'S QUEEN ANNE COTTAGE - Designed by A. A. Bennett for entertaining, the cottage was constructed by Elias Jackson ('Lucky') Baldwin in 1881. Since there was no kitchen, meals were served from the nearby adobe (built by Hugo Reid in 1839) where Baldwin actually lived. The building was restored and dedicated May 18,1954 as part of Los Angeles State and County Arboretum.
Location: Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, 301 N Baldwin, Arcadia



From NRHP:
Though it is actually of Stick-Eastlake design, Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin's guesthouse (1885) is commonly referred to as the "Queen Anne Cottage". In reality, only the octagonal configuration of the tower hints at the Queen Anne, a style in which the use of polygonal towers and assorted large bays and gables often defined the volumes of the building. The idea of the tower itself in American architecture can be traced back to the Italian Villa mode of the 1840's in which a picturesque silhouette for buildings was important, and in which the idea of the Italian belvedere from which to view the countryside became popular.



The character of the building as a folly is emphasized by its relative isolation in an exotic landscape ensemble which includes a natural lake, specimen trees, cultivated lawns, and wild undergrowth. The lake remains much as Baldwin landscaped it in the late 1880 T s, though there has been a loss of a number of the decorative granite boulders which once rimmed the perimeter. … A grove of Mexican fan palms planted by Baldwin, now among the tallest in the continental United States, tower over the Cottage grounds; willows still grace the lake shore; a 160 foot tall blue gum Eucalyptus shelters the Cottage walkway; a magnificent English Oak planted by Baldwin in 1876 still shades the lawn between the Cottage and the Barn; and descendants of Baldwin planted black walnuts, gingkoes, cypress, elms, and persimmons lend variety to the landscape.



Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin, a San Francisco businessman who had made millions in Comstock dealings, used $200,000 of his fortune to purchase the 8,500 acre Rancho Santa Anita in 1875. A loan foreclosure on the Temple and Workman Bank (Temple and Workman lands were held as collateral) plus additional land purchases increased his Southern California holdings to nearly 50,000 acres within a year and made Lucky Baldwin a landowner of acknowledged importance in the Southland.



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Location: 301 N Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007, USA

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