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The Robert Taylor Ranch is a ranch located on Mandeville Canyon Road, in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, California. The ranch was built in 1956 for Waite Phillips and designed by architect Robert Byrd. [1] It is about 112 acres (0.45 km 2) large, with more than 20,000 square feet of living space. [1]
Smith, Sr. agreed to pay the Evertson estate between $600 and 700 for the 100-acre (0.4 km 2) farm. [6] In 1825, the family moved into a larger and more comfortable frame home that they had built on the property but were unable to make payments on the land. A carpenter who had completed the house sued the Smiths for his costs in February 1825.
The Smiths were a middling farm family, but suffered a fateful loss when Smith Sr., after speculating in ginseng and being cheated by a business associate, was financially ruined. After he sold the family farm to pay his debts, the Smiths "crossed the boundary dividing independent ownership from tenancy and day labor."
The Sturges House is the only structure in Southern California built in the modern style Wright called Usonian design. [4] Other Wright homes in the area were built in the 1920s with interlocking, pre-cast concrete blocks, which he named "textile block" style, and seen in such homes as the Ennis House .
Marsh Creek State Park is a State Historic Park in east Contra Costa County, California, United States. [2] about 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south of downtown Brentwood.The park, named for the creek flowing through the property, contains the historic stone John Marsh house, ranching buildings, and numerous pre-historic archaeological sites.
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