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Christian House 1889

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This graceful residence was constructed by Harfield Timberlake Christian, founder of an early San Diego abstract company. It is built in a popular late Victorian design characterized by a variety of chimneys, shingles, a corner tower and encircling veranda. One critic wrote that this style "should be a restless, uncertain, frightful collection of details giving the effect of a nightmare about to explode."

10c 615 Kingman Ave - Pumphrey House - Harwell H Harris (E)

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Pumphrey House, 1939
Harwell H Harris
615 Kingman Ave

The horrizontal, wood-batered house is quite Wrightian and very dificult to see behind fences and foliage.

Architecture in Los Angeles: A Compleat Guide
David Gebhard and Robert Winter
Pacific Palisades, South, No. 4.
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Harwell Hamilton Harris

Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903 - November 18, 1990) was a modernist American architect, noted for his work in Southern California that assimilated European and American influences.[1]

He began his studies at Pomona College but left after a year to study sculpture at the Otis Art Institute, now Otis College of Art and Design. In 1928, he began apprenticing under architect Richard Neutra with whom he was associated until 1932. (Fellow apprentices included Gregory Ain and Raphael Soriano.)

Adopting Neutra's modernist sensibility, Harris merged the vernacular of California with a sensitivity to site and materials characteristic of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. In his residential work of the 1930s and 1940s, primarily in California, Harris created a tension and a continuum between exterior and interior with continuous rooflines. Learning from Frank Lloyd Wright, he designed interior spaces that are often based on the cruciform plan. His work is characterized by a careful use of materials and clean, fluid spaces.

From 1952 until 1955, Harris served as the Dean for the School of Architecture of the University of Texas. The group of modernist architects he attracted to the faculty there came to be known as The Texas Rangers. In 1955, he left the university and established a private practice in Dallas, which he maintained until 1962 when he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina where he re-established his practice and began teaching at North Carolina State University. He retired from teaching in 1973 but continued to practice architecture from his home studio in Raleigh until shortly before his death there on November 18, 1990.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwell_Harris

10a 615 Kingman Ave - Pumphrey House - Harwell H Harris (E)

Image by Kansas Sebastian
Pumphrey House, 1939
Harwell H Harris
615 Kingman Ave

The horrizontal, wood-batered house is quite Wrightian and very dificult to see behind fences and foliage.

Architecture in Los Angeles: A Compleat Guide
David Gebhard and Robert Winter
Pacific Palisades, South, No. 4.
__________

Harwell Hamilton Harris

Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903 - November 18, 1990) was a modernist American architect, noted for his work in Southern California that assimilated European and American influences.[1]

He began his studies at Pomona College but left after a year to study sculpture at the Otis Art Institute, now Otis College of Art and Design. In 1928, he began apprenticing under architect Richard Neutra with whom he was associated until 1932. (Fellow apprentices included Gregory Ain and Raphael Soriano.)

Adopting Neutra's modernist sensibility, Harris merged the vernacular of California with a sensitivity to site and materials characteristic of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. In his residential work of the 1930s and 1940s, primarily in California, Harris created a tension and a continuum between exterior and interior with continuous rooflines. Learning from Frank Lloyd Wright, he designed interior spaces that are often based on the cruciform plan. His work is characterized by a careful use of materials and clean, fluid spaces.

From 1952 until 1955, Harris served as the Dean for the School of Architecture of the University of Texas. The group of modernist architects he attracted to the faculty there came to be known as The Texas Rangers. In 1955, he left the university and established a private practice in Dallas, which he maintained until 1962 when he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina where he re-established his practice and began teaching at North Carolina State University. He retired from teaching in 1973 but continued to practice architecture from his home studio in Raleigh until shortly before his death there on November 18, 1990.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwell_Harris

Juniper Valley Park

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"The park takes its name from the Juniper Valley Swamp, which covered an area of about 100 acres from Caldwell Avenue south to Juniper Valley Road. The swamp and surrounding area were blanketed by a thick forest of Juniper and White Cedar trees. Before the site of Juniper Valley Park was improved for recreational purposes, it was used variously as a farm, a cemetery, a source for peat moss, the property of a racketeer, and a garbage dump.
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In the early 1930s the City of New York acquired the bog to settle a 5,000 claim in back taxes against the estate of the infamous Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928), who had been accused of fixing the 1919 World Series. Rothstein had purchased land in Middle Village on which he erected 143 flimsy houses with the hope of raising property values. Rejecting proposals to use Rothstein’s "Phantom Village" as the site of a municipal airport or as the site of the Queens civic center, government officials chose instead to develop the land for use as a park. The bog was mined to provide landscaping material for parks and parkways. The land and four adjacent parcels were acquired for park purposes between 1937 and 1949.

From 1941 to 1942, squads of Works Progress Administration workers transformed the barren land into one of Queens’s most beloved parks. Plans called for paths, playgrounds, fences, benches, a wading pool, and a variety of athletic facilties for tennis, paddle tennis, badminton, handball, shuffleboard, ice skating, and bicycling. Baseball and softball fields were built on top of the Department of Sanitation’s former landfill dump. The extensive horticultural program included the planting of 168 new shade trees, 2000 rose bushes, thousands of shrubs, and vast lawn areas."

www.nycgovparks.org/parks/junipervalleypark
www.nycgovparks.org/parks/junipervalleypark/history
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper_Valley_Park
www.junipercivic.com