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The Gamble House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977. [2] [6] Today, two 5th-year USC architecture students live in the house full-time; the selected students change annually. The Gamble House was a target for criticism during the 20th century. However, after the Second World War it received newfound popularity. [4]
It was built in 1907 for Robert Roe Blacker and Nellie Canfield Blacker. It was designed by Henry and Charles Greene of the renowned Pasadena firm of Greene and Greene. This house was a lavish project for the Greene brothers, costing in excess of US$100,000.00 ($3.27 million today).
Greene and Greene's Gamble House. The first sites in Pasadena to be listed on the Register were Greene and Greene's American Craftsman masterpiece, the Gamble House (built from 1908 to 1909), the Pasadena Playhouse (built in 1924) and Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block structure, the Millard House (built in 1923).
Gamble House, Pasadena, California, in 2005 Mortimer Fleishhacker House and estate (rear view), Woodside, California. The architectural firm of Greene and Greene was established in Pasadena in January 1894, eventually culminating with the designs of their "ultimate bungalows", such as the 1908 Gamble House in Pasadena, generally considered one of the finest examples of residential architecture ...
Gamble House was home to David B. Gamble of the Procter & Gamblecompany. Northwest Pasadena is bordered on the north and west by the city limits, on the south by the 210 and 134 Freeways, and the east by Los Robles and El Molino Avenues. It has traditionally been a working-class area with a significant African-American population.
website, California history, operated by the Native Sons of the Golden West: Rancho Los Alamitos: Long Beach: Los Angeles Harbor Region: Historic house: Early 19th century adobe ranch house and barns with animals Rancho Los Cerritos: Long Beach: Los Angeles Harbor Region: Historic house: 1844 two-story Monterey-style adobe home Raymond M. Alf ...
Gamble House was home to David B. Gamble of the Procter & Gamble company. Rose Bowl Aquatics Center. The Arroyo Seco runs the length of the Brookside Park. At the very center of the park is the Rose Bowl, at the southern end is Brookside Park (the actual park) and the Gamble House, and at the northern end is the Brookside Golf Course.
Gamble House may refer to: Gamble House (Pasadena, California), an Arts and Crafts style masterpiece that is a U.S. National Historic Landmark; Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, Ellenton, Florida, listed on the NRHP in Manatee County, Florida as Robert Gamble House; James Gamble House, Le Claire, Iowa, listed on the NRHP in Scott County, Iowa