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Title: Meadowlark Park [model houses]
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: Fickett, Edward H., 1916-1999, Architect
Eckbo, Royston and Williams, Landscape Architect
Ray Hommes Co, Builder
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1953]
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Exterior and interior views of model houses in housing development.
Four of the model homes at Meadowlark Park were decorated by Martha Weaver of Barker Bros. Envelope lableled "Roche". "Roche" may be a reference to Mary Roche of House Beautiful.
"Beamed Ceilings Cited as Feature of Homes," Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1953, E7. "Record Crowds Visit Homes Development," Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1953, E7. "Television Sets Built into New Dwellings," Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1953, E8. "Homes' Design Meets Indoor–Outdoor Wish," Los Angeles Times, June 14, 1953, E7.
Type: image
Extent: Number of items: 28 ; Black-and-white negatives (28 - Item number 013 has writing on the emulsion side of negative)
Identifier: photCL MLP 0310
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/6142
Language: English
Subject: Architecture, Domestic--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Architecture, Modern--20th century--Photographs
Outdoor living spaces--Photographs
Living rooms--Photographs
Bedrooms--Photographs
Kitchens--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
House furnishings--Photographs
Interior decoration--Photographs
Place: Northridge, Calif.
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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