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Title: Guasti Villa, West Adams
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1910
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: In 1910, leading vintner Secondo Guasti commissioned Hudson & Munsell Architects to design the mansion in the Beaux Arts and Italian styles. In 1937, the home was purchased by Busby Berkeley, who turned the basement wine cellar into a film editing studio. Then in 1944, the Los Angeles Physicians Aid Association acquired the property as a retirement home. Since 1974, this Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument has been owned by the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) and serves as a facility for seminars, retreats, and classes.
Front exterior of the two-story Beaux Arts style home of leading vintner Secondo Guasti, located at 3500 West Adams Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00061954
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Residences-Guasti, Secondo; A-004-028 4x5
CARL0000065879
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/106319
Subject: Guasti, Secondo--Homes and haunts
Dwellings--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Dirt roads--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Palms--California--Los Angeles
Eclecticism in architecture--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Architecture, Domestic--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)--Italian influences
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
West Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hudson & Munsell

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