Architect Frederick Roehrig designed the Victorian style mansion for Andrew McNally originally in 1888. The 9-bedroom, 5-bath home in 6938 sq. ft. is currently (March 2018) on the market listed for sale for $3,790,000 and described in the listing as "No expense was spared for Andrew McNally's three-story Altadena mansion. The great map maker used his expansive estate as his own personal calling card for those shivering in the Midwest or along the eastern seaboard, beckoning them to the luxe life available only in Southern California.
His home embodied the bounty of the San Gabriel Mountains, palm trees and deodar cedars, citrus and olive trees, broad green lawns and sunshine. Even a large aviary for exotic birds to match the colorful arrays of flowers McNally planted throughout the then twelve-acre estate.
While there is less land today, the distinctive blue-shingled estate still presides over the valley below, with views out to Catalina Island. Adjectives to describe McNally's nearly seven thousand square-foot house are not those we might use for contemporary architecture. Modesty doesn't work here either. Rather, words such as grand, exotic, eccentric, fit like a glove.
Every element of this twenty-two room, nine-bedroom, seven-fireplace, and five-bathroom estate is yet another example of rich original detail. Nearly all of its nineteenth-century features remain intact".
The Andrew McNally Estate is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 654 Mariposa Street in Altadena, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architect Frederick Roehrig designed the Shingle style residence in 1891 for William Stanton, a cousin of Edwin McMasters Stanton, President Lincoln's Secretary of War. Originally there were four water towers on the property inasmuch as their was no public water supply at Grace Hill. After water utilities were being supplied to the property, the 50,000 gallon steel water towers were converted to residential use. Only one of the towers remain; the rest were damaged by fires and earthquakes.. After Stanton and his wife died, the property was eventually purchased by a carpenter from Eagle Rock who converted the property to rental apartments.
The Grace Mansion is located at 80 Grace Terrace in Pasadena, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architect Frederick Roehrig designed the Municipal Power & Light Building for the City of Glendale in 1928. The two-story concrete structure was designed in the Art Deco style with Classical Revival ornamentation. The building was one of three Moderne style municipal buildings built during the 1920s; the other two were demolished in 1992 after an intense community preservation fight.
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Grand chateau-style mansion with Richardsonian Romanesque elements designed for Frederick H. Rindge, a wealthy landowner and financier with extensive holdings in the West Adams neighborhood as well as Malibu. The Rindge House in located at 2263 S. Harvard Blvd. in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. In 1972, the house was declared an Historic-Cultural Monument in the City of Los Angeles (No. 95); it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 23, 1986.
Frederick Louis Roehrig (1857 – 1948) was an early 20th-century American architect often referred to as the "Millionaire's Architect" reflecting his popularity with the upper class during his ascendancy.. A 1883 graduate of Cornell University, he also studied architecture in England. His architectural body of work followed the convention of the times producing some of the finest examples of Victorian, Craftsman, and Neo-Classical styles. His landmark buildings are generally found in Pasadena and West Adams, Los Angeles area neighborhoods favored by the well-to-do. Some of his best known works include Rindge House, a mansion for Frederick H. Rindge (1902); Ramsay-Durfee Estate (Villa Maria), a Tudor mansion with a Craftsman interior (1908) both in West Adams; Grace Mansion and Water Tower (1891); Scoville House (1909); Louise Hugus House (1908), Braun Music Center at Westridge School (1909) Finnish Folk Art Museum (1911) all in Pasadena, California.
He also designed several mansions on "Millionaire's Row" between 1892 and 1911 along South Orange Grove many of which were demolished in the 1950s and 1960s. Three of the mansions have been preserved as part of the campus of Ambassador College.
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Architect Frederick L. Roehrig designed the Scofield House in 1909 in a hybrid style, combining Craftsman, Pueblo Revival and Prairie School elements. The interior, according to David Gebhard and Robert Winter "is very Wrightian." The Scofield House is located at 280 S. Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena, California.
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