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Title
Residence and garden in Bernheimer Garden
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
Publication Information
Federal Writers' Project
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
The 1924 Bernheimer Estate, located at 16980 Sunset Blvd in Pacific Palisades, which was designed to resemble a pagoda and housed a collection of oriental art, was demolished in the late 1950s. The Bernheimer Gardens flourished as a tourist attraction until 1941, when public opinion changed due to WWII. Eventually the gardens fell victim to two major landslides and were destroyed. Brothers Charles and Aldoph Bernheimer built a second Japanese estate and gardens in Hollywood, now home to Yamashiro restaurant.
Residence in background with part of the garden and statue of Ten-Jin on his ox in foreground. View is to the west from the hilltop house.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00030553
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 4076 4x5
CARL0000032414
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1907
Subject
Bernheimer Estate (Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Dwellings--California--Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles)
Gardens, Japanese--California--Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles)
Gardens, Miniature--California--Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles)
Architecture, Domestic--California--Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles)--Japanese influences
Lost architecture--California--Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles)
Mountains--California, Southern
Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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