1188 Hillcrest Ave, Pasadena, CA 91106
Cordelia Culbertson, the eldest of three unmarried sisters, commissioned this Pasadena house for herself, Kate, and Margaret. Built in 1911, it was designed by Charles and Henry Greene with a U-shaped plan and an Italian garden at its center. The brothers combined Craftsman design with Chinese elements, especially on the south side. Gunite exterior walls and a tile roof made an unusual pairing found nowhere else among the Greenes’ works. Floral tiles decorated the walls, and crouching musicians appeared on the column capitals. In 1917, the house passed to Mrs. Dudley P. Allen, a wealthy widow from Cleveland, Ohio. She bought it as a summer home and enjoyed it with her second husband, Francis F. Prentiss. Their summer home included red and green roof tiles, large ceramic planters and animal figures on the grounds, and a courtyard fountain decorated with Pewabic Pottery tiles. Prentiss died at the house in 1937.
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