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Title
Queen Anne Cottage at Arboretum
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator
Smith, A. Ellis
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Looking from the sitting room to the music room of the Queen Anne Cottage, showing one the five marble fireplaces which were made in Italy. The Queen Anne Cottage was built between the years 1885-86 by Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin and is believed to have been a honeymoon gift for Lucky's fourth wife, sixteen year-old Lillie Bennett. Lillie's father, architect Albert A. Bennett, designed the cottage. After the May-December marriage ended in 1885, Baldwin converted the home into a memorial to the third wife, Jennie Dexter, who had died in 1881. Jennie's likeness can be seen in a stained glass portrait in the front door and in a large portrait hanging in the parlor, both of which remain in the cottage today. Baldwin resided in the neighboring 8-room adobe house, originally owned by Hugo Reid, leaving the cottage to serve as the ranch guest house. After Baldwin's death in 1909, the ranch land fell into the hands of Baldwin's daughter Anita, who in 1936, sold some acres to Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times. Chandler owned a real estate company, Rancho Santa Anita, Inc., which oversaw the former Baldwin land and developed subdivisions in the area. In 1947, 111 acres of the former Santa Anita Ranch were purchased from Rancho Santa Anita, Inc. by the State of California and County of Los Angeles to develop the arboretum. Photo dated: July 1957.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00075124
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Arcadia-Residences-Baldwin.
CARL0000077489
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115224
Subject
Los Angeles State and County Arboretum
Dwellings--California--Arcadia
Queen Anne revival (Architecture)--California--Arcadia
Bennett, Albert A
Arcadia (Calif.)

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