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Garden City Company of California
1916 Ideal Homes In Garden Communities
The Garden City Company of California was an organization of members "who are actively engaged in practicing some of the larger aims of the Association; namely the designing and building of beautiful homes and gardens, the consistent architectural development of real estate subdivisions, and the layout out of such subdivisions and town sites."
The founding member, Francis Pierpont Davis, was an architect and 1932 Gold Medal Olympian in sailing. His father was a Baltimore architect, so Davis and his brother Walter followed in the family business.
Davis was well-connected through his marriage and education. He moved to California in 1907 and with his brother established the firm of Davis and Davis. They did residential architecture in addition to apartment buildings and other larger buildings including schools and churches in the Greater Los Angeles area.
One, the La Venta Inn in Palos Verdes, was designed by Davis and Davis in conjunction with the Olmsteads, who executed the landscape architecture.
The original book is relatively small, so we've scanned our images at higher resolution to make it easier to see the detail of the design and plan. We've also copied the text describing our featured plans verbatim, but have placed the text at the bottom of the page to make viewing the illustrations easier.
Resources
- Davis, Francis Pierpont et al. Ideal Homes in Garden Communities. Fourth Edition. Robert M. McBride Y Company, New York City, 1919.
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