Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The Ludington estate, also known as Val Verde, Dias Felices, the Henry Dater house, and the Dr. Warren Austin home, was designed by the architect Bertram Grovenor Goodhue, constructed in 1918 and then purchased by Charles H. Ludington in 1924. His son, Wright Saltus Ludington (who inherited the estate in 1927 or 1930), engaged the landscape architect Lockwood de Forest to design the gardens in 1925. Retaining the geometry of Goodhue's design and much of the wilderness, Lockwood transformed the gardens over a period of twenty-three years. Handwriting on back of photograph: W.S. Luddington [sic]- Montecito- 3/28/1931 Distant view towards oval reflecting pool from brick path on terrace bordered by boxwood hedge. Man wearing suit and hat, looking at swan, visible at the far end of the pool.
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image
Identifier
clus_1411_Luddington_3 ark:/21198/zz00090kzr
Subject
Reflecting pools People Garden walks Gardens Environment Landscape architecture Val Verde (Montecito, Calif.)
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