Image / Wright Saltus Ludington residence, view of oval reflecting pool, Montecito, 1931

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Title: Wright Saltus Ludington residence, view of oval reflecting pool, Montecito, 1931
Alternative Title: Wright Saltus Ludington residence
Contributor: Cornell, Ralph D
Date Created and/or Issued: March 28, 1931
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Cornell (Ralph D.) papers
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The Ludington estate, also known as Val Verde, Dias Felices, the Henry Dater house, and the Dr. Warren Austin home was designed by the architect Bertram Grovenor Goodhue, constructed in 1918 and then purchased by Charles H. Ludington in 1924. His son, Wright Saltus Ludington (who inherited the estate in 1927 or 1930), engaged the landscape architect Lockwood de Forest to design the gardens in 1925. Retaining the geometry of Goodhue's design and much of the wilderness, Lockwood transformed the gardens over a period of twenty-three years.
Handwriting on back of photograph: photo by Ralph D. Cornell
Handwriting on back of photograph: W.S. Ludington - 3/28/37- Montecito Lockwood de Forest - landscape architect
View of the oval reflecting pool with its box hedge border, and hedges and trees beyond.
Type: Image
Identifier: clus_1411_Luddington_1
ark:/21198/zz00090kv6
Subject: Environment
People
Gardens
Reflecting pools
Landscape architecture
Hedges
Trees
Val Verde (Montecito, Calif.)
Source: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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