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• The John J. Ford House
• 13 Remarkable Train Tours For Railway Fanatics 19 October 2021
• Paul de Longpre Estate
• Cool Food Events and Pop-Ups to Check Out This Week in Los Angeles: April 26
• Column: Shooting uncovers ‘plantation mentality’ in a rich, liberal California enclave
• Two LA Cocktail Spots Land on a List of the Best North American Bars

The Mount Pleasant House was built in 1876 by prominent businessman and lumber baron William Hayes Perry. Designed by renowned architect Ezra F. Kysor, the home contains detailing to convey the wealth and social status of the family. These elements include Corinthian columns, fine hardwood floors, a sweeping main staircase, and marble fireplace mantles. It was built in the fashionable neighborhood (in the 19th century) of Boyle Heights.

The John J. Ford House

The Foundation organized Heritage Square as a last-chance haven for architecturally and historically significant buildings to be moved to, which otherwise would have been demolished at their original locations. "Sometime before 1734," according to the application, "King" Roger Moore, as he was called, built the earliest parts of the current plantation house. Weber’s home would eventually be purchased by Conrad Hilton, one of America’s self-made capitalist kings, who renamed it Casa Encantada. Its lines sweep in regal beauty and with them carry a classical motif into the interior through columns of Doric and Ionic simplicity,” Conrad Hilton himself wrote in the self-published House of Hilton, Casa Encantada. It was extravagantly American, a perfect combination of East Coast stolidity and West Coast dramatics. But nowhere in Los Angeles County adopted the grandiose neoclassical styles more than the city of Pasadena, settled by wealthy, white, retiring Midwesterners striving for Christian gentility mixed with a sunny status.

13 Remarkable Train Tours For Railway Fanatics 19 October 2021

Major planters held many more, especially in the Deep South as it developed.[1] The majority of slaveholders held 10 or fewer enslaved people, often to labor domestically. By the late 18th century, most planters in the Upper South had switched from exclusive tobacco cultivation to mixed-crop production, both because tobacco had exhausted the soil and because of changing markets. The shift away from tobacco meant they had slaves in excess of the number needed for labor, and they began to sell them in the internal slave trade. In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, by contrast, even before the American Revolution, planters holding large rice plantations typically owned hundreds of enslaved people. In Charleston and Savannah, the elite also held numerous enslaved people to work as household servants. The 19th-century development of the Deep South for cotton cultivation depended on large plantations with much more acreage than was typical of the Upper South; and for labor, planters held hundreds of enslaved people.

Paul de Longpre Estate

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The Pacific Electric stopped right in front of the estate, and you could buy prints of popular de Longpre paintings and postcards of the property in the main house. The Hale House was built in 1887 by George W. Morgan, a land speculator and real estate developer, at the foot of Mount Washington just a few blocks from the museum in Highland Park in Los Angeles. Find farm houses for sale in California including old farm houses on acreage, modern farmhouses, historic plantation homes with land, and small stone farmhouses. According to Holliday, Weber bought a commanding lot high on a hill in Bel Air, overlooking the Bel Air Country Club. For the main house, she hired architect James E. Dolena to design a blindingly white 30,000-square-foot neoclassical mansion, the likes of which LA had never seen.

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Redfin is redefining real estate and the home buying process in Los Angeles with industry-leading technology, full-service agents, and lower fees that provide a better value for Redfin buyers and sellers. By the 1920s, the newly rich and wannabe powerful in the real estate and movie industries were increasingly using in-vogue classical architecture to denote status and demand respect. In 1924, Francis Montgomery built Sunset Plaza on what became the Strip, anchoring what was essentially a shopping center with four white Georgian Revival structures.

A trip to Belle Grove Plantation gives visitors the opportunity to venture into the past and see what life was like for early settlers in Shenandoah Valley. Located near Middletown, Virginia, the 1797 antebellum plantation is still farmed today and features a large limestone manor house in Federal style architecture. Established in 1787, Destrehan Plantation was originally a thriving indigo plantation and sugarcane farm.

When you visit today, costumed tour guides take you through the mansion, sharing details of the property’s history. If Evergreen Plantation seems familiar, you might have seen it featured in Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 film, “Django Unchained”. The stunning Greek Revival style building and plantation grounds were used as a backdrop to shoot some of the film’s scenes. Julia and her husband struggled with the property during Reconstruction in the South, and the property was purchased by Thomas Melville Hanna in 1896.

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This low, rambling, Solstice Canyon ranch house was designed by Paul Williams in 1952 for grocery magnate Fred Roberts and his wife Florence. The house was built to accommodate the lush pools, waterfalls, and vegetation on the site. This 1898 Mission Revival mansion was designed by architect John Kremple for the legendary Harrison Gray Otis, editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Times. It was built overlooking the then super-fashionable Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park).

Simpson lost the home in 1997 after defaulting on the mortgage; the new owner had it torn down the following year. "It's not my house, and I could care less," Simpson told a reporter at the time. Josef von Sternberg, famed director of The Blue Angel and Morocco, hired legendary architect Richard Neutra to design this aluminum-clad Modernist masterpiece in the early 1930s. Von Sternberg was one of the first celebrities to build in the then-rural San Fernando Valley. The house was later owned by author Ayn Rand, before it was razed in 1972 to make way for a housing development.

This is the land where James Madison thought up ideas and shaped the US as the country’s 4th president. With 2,650 acres of rolling hills, horse pastures, and scenic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Montpelier offers insight into the Madison family history and provides a deeper look into Madison’s presidency. Exhibits on the grounds include the 1910 Train Depot, exploring the African American struggle for civil rights.

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The farm survived the Civil War and was passed down through generations of the Harding family until they ran into serious debt in 1893. The plantation was sold in 1906 and was converted into an educational non-profit organization in 1953. In 1906, the fascinating heiress Almira Hershey bought the rambling, Mission Revival-style wooden hotel. It became the temporary home of many of the great names in silent Hollywood, including Irving Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer, Ethel Barrymore, Rudolph Valentino, and Norma Shearer. Located on Downtown's Bunker Hill, then the toniest address in Los Angeles, it boasted 35 rooms, five chimneys, and five turrets.

The mansion was later home to colorful socialite "Bubbles" Schinasi, producer William Jacobs, and "Rumba King" Xavier Cugat. The "plantation house" was torn down in 2000, to make way for a more modern mansion. In 1898, the wealthy Cravens family built a large Tudor-style mansion, designed by Frederick Roehrig, on Pasadena's famed Millionaire's Row.

Ford's works include carvings for the California State Capitol, the Iolani Palace in Hawaii, and Leland Stanford's private railroad car. Because of his occupation, the exterior and interior carvings were all done by hand in ornate, one-of-a-kind patterns. Around 1880, Orton became the property of former Confederate Col. K.M. Murchison, a prosperous businessman in the cotton and naval stores industry. In 1888, Murchison built a large hotel in downtown Wilmington and called it "The Orton." One prime example is the 1893 Farmers and Merchants Bank, a classical revival temple in Downtown LA designed by Morgan and Walls, which gave one the sense that the institution had been around much longer than 1871. One man who seems to have realized the transformative power of a neoclassical home was John Elridge Sterns.

Novels, often adapted into films, presented a romantic, sanitized view of plantation life and ignored or glorified white supremacy. The property was saved from ruin by opening to the public and now offers guided tours taking visitors through the Drayton family home and gives a glimpse of what plantation life was like in the 19th century. This includes ten rooms that are open to the public, furnished with antiques, quilts, and Drayton family heirlooms. This location is unique because it’s the only private home to be owned by two presidents. William Henry Harrison purchased the house under the name “Walnut Grove.” After his death, his successor John Tyler purchased the plantation in 1842, renaming it Sherwood Forest to show his outlaw position in the Whig party.