![]() The 1926 Steedman house in Montecito, and the 1928 Prindle House on Hillcrest Avenue in Pasadena’s Oak Knoll district are delightful designs, filled with delicious details in a powerful composition of architectural forms. Montecito architect George Washington Smith, the master of the Spanish grand manner, built splendid mansions for the Southland real estate, press, transportation and oil plutocracy. Revival houses, hotels and commercial buildings attracted the talents of Southern California’s most popular and gifted designers in the 1920s and ‘30s. So the upstart movie crowd felt reassured in its architectural taste.” “It was the era of Valentino and Ramon Navarro and ‘The Mark of Zorro,’ ” Gebhard explained.”The Spanish vogue was given cachet by the upper-middle-class Easterners who settled in Pasadena, San Marino, Montecito and Santa Barabara. The rise of a Hollywood movie colony in search of a style to express its new opulence. The influence of magazines, such as Architectural Digest that were particularly popular with women readers. Many of these new California designers were fresh from tours of the Spanish province of Andalusia, home of Gypsy flamenco, white-walled haciendas and Moorish palaces like the Alhambra in Granada. A host of resettled East Coast architects who were inspired by the myth of California’s colonial history. ![]() ![]() A post-World War I housing boom led by a wave of cultured immigrants in search of a healthy climate and a romantic life style. The impact of the 1915 Panama-California International Exposition in San Diego, designed by Bertram Goodhue in the Spanish style. The rapid popularization of Revival design in the 1920s was due to the simultaneous occurrence of several factors: (Cain’s “Double Indemnity” house was located in Glendale, but the house used in the 1944 Billy Wilder film is situated at 6301 Quebec St., in the Hollywood Hills.) ![]()
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