Architect Thornton Abell remodeled the English style house originally built in 1947 for Marion A. and Louise Manderbach in 1958. The house is located at 817 Sylvanoak Drive in Glendale, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architect Thornton Abell designed the Modernist style house for Clifford C. and Nancy MacAdam Walkey in 1957. The 4-bedroom, 5-bath home in 6023 sf is currently (February 2023) listed for sale for $12.9M and described in part as of "midcentury open air concept located in the tranquility of Rivas Canyon on an approximate acre and set behind gates for enhanced privacy, the owner contracted designer Stacy Jacobson and Bret Thoeny of BOTO Design Architects to expand the home with a seamless addition that pays tribute to the integrity of Abell's original design. Folding walls of floor to ceiling create optimal Southern Californian, indoor/outdoor living".
Located at 946 Rivas Canyon Road in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architect Thornton M. Abell designed the Modernist style house for ethnomusicologist Mantle Hood in 1951. Mr. Hood was a founder of ethnomusicology, the study of world music in its cultural context. "Mantle Hood was the first scholar to take seriously the study of non-Western music in the 1950s," according to Christopher Waterman, dean of the school of arts and architecture at the University of California at Los Angeles. Hood joined the UCLA faculty in 1956 and created the Department of Ethnomusicology in 1960.
The Mantle Hood House is located at 386 Mesa Road in Santa Monica, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architect Thornton M. Abell designed the Modernist style house for Dr. Preston H. & Amy W. McClelland in 1937. The house is located at 677 San Lorenzo Street in Santa Monica, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Architect Thornton Abell designed the Modernist style house for Richard and Leonora Haines in 1951. The 4-bedroom, 5-bath home in 4,800 sf is currently (February 2023) listed for sale for $10.5 million. Located at 247 Amalfi Drive in Santa Monica, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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