Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The Lansdowne Hermes statue is now in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art 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: Original Hermes' from Hadrian's Villa. W.S. Luddington[sic] - Montecito 3/28/1931
Type
image
Identifier
clus_1411_Luddington_4 ark:/21198/zz00090m0r
Subject
Lawns (landscaped grass) People Trees Arts Columns (architectural elements) Sculpture gardens Statues Environment Gardens Landscape architecture Val Verde (Montecito, Calif.)
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