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Scettrini Ranch, the site of the future Marin County Civic Center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, San Rafael, California, circa 1956 [photograph]

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Title: Scettrini Ranch, the site of the future Marin County Civic Center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, San Rafael, California, circa 1956 [photograph]
Creator: Trimble, John
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1956
Publication Information: Marin County Free Library, Anne T. Kent California Room
Contributing Institution: Marin County Free Library
Collection: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Marin County Civic Center
Rights Information: unknown
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Description: On April 27, 1957, Marin County Board of Supervisors purchased the 140-acre Scettrini Ranch in the Santa Venetia neighborhood of San Rafael for $551,416, for use as the site of the new civic center and county fairgrounds. Frank Lloyd Wright was formally chosen as the architect in July, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 35 mm color slide
Identifier: csrcl_477
stockstad 1-34
ark:/13030/kt2v19r5d6
http://contentdm.marinlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/flw/id/22
Language: English
Subject: Marin County Civic Center
Architecture and government--California
Ranches
Organic architecture--California
Civic centers--Design and construction
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Scettrini, Edward F
Place: Marin County (Calif.)
Santa Venetia (Calif.)
San Rafael (Calif.)
Source: Harold Stockstad Slide Collection, Anne T. Kent California Room
Relation: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0q2nc5z2
http://marinlibrary.org/californiaroom

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