Czech American architect Joseph J. Kucera designed the Monterey Colonial style house for Robert M. and Laura Yost in 1926. Robert M. Yost, son of Alice Kern (Yost) and Robert M. Yost and brother of writer Dorothy Yost, was educated in the public schools of St. Louis and attended Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois. He began his career as a reporter/writer for the St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch. Later, worked for the Los Angeles Examiner and then the Los Angeles Morning Herald and the Hearst syndicate services. In 1920, he was named Publicity Director for Fox West Coast Studios and, in early 1930, was appointed head of the scenario department for Fox. He left Fox shortly after the merger of Fox Film Corporation with Darryl F. Zanuck's Century Pictures.
The house is located at 554 Moreno Avenue in the Brentwood Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Italianate Renaissance Revival style house designed by architect Joseph Kucera in 1932. the 6-bedroom 5-bath house in 5578 sq. ft. is currently (May 2018) on the market listed for sale for $5,595,000 and described in the listing as "Characterized by gracious homes from the late 1930s set amidst large trees and mature landscapes, the 5,578-square-foot Dobyns Estate was the first and nearly the largest house on this short street. Its high design blends formal Italian Renaissance Revival massing, gardens, and details such as the handsome column capitals and pilasters, with a more easy-going Spanish feeling, especially the relaxed asymmetry of the layout and in the inviting, porous relationship to the outdoors, seen in the large recessed rear terrace and the many pairs of French doors leading to the carefully laid out gardens or, upstairs, balconies.
The house was designed by a society architect and specialist in period revival styles, the Czech-American Joseph J. Kucera. The entry is a series of carefully orchestrated transitions, beginning with the approach, low myrtle hedges flanking the walkway through a shallow lawn and to a walled courtyard with a central fountain, paved with beautiful rectilinear paving stones present in so many upscale private and public buildings constructed in the 1930s".
The Dobyns were prominent members of Pasadena society, Mr. Dobyns being a patent attorney and author whose book, The Underworld of American Politics exposed the origin and development of Chicago's Tammany Hall. He also wrote The Amazing Story of Repeal: An Expose of the Power of Propaganda. President Roosevelt personally selected him to prosecute John R. Walsh president of three of Chicago's biggest banks. Winifred Ursula Starr was a successful landscape architect and photographer. Among her accomplishments she wrote California Gardens documenting through artistic photographs the development of the "greatest gardens created in Southern California in the first two decades of the 20th century".
Located at 870 Chula Vista Avenue in the Upper Arroyo Seco neighborhood of Pasadena, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Italianate Renaissance Revival style house designed by architect Joseph Kucera in 1932. the 6-bedroom 5-bath house in 5578 sq. ft. is currently (May 2018) on the market listed for sale for $5,595,000 and described in the listing as "Characterized by gracious homes from the late 1930s set amidst large trees and mature landscapes, the 5,578-square-foot Dobyns Estate was the first and nearly the largest house on this short street. Its high design blends formal Italian Renaissance Revival massing, gardens, and details such as the handsome column capitals and pilasters, with a more easy-going Spanish feeling, especially the relaxed asymmetry of the layout and in the inviting, porous relationship to the outdoors, seen in the large recessed rear terrace and the many pairs of French doors leading to the carefully laid out gardens or, upstairs, balconies.
The house was designed by a society architect and specialist in period revival styles, the Czech-American Joseph J. Kucera. The entry is a series of carefully orchestrated transitions, beginning with the approach, low myrtle hedges flanking the walkway through a shallow lawn and to a walled courtyard with a central fountain, paved with beautiful rectilinear paving stones present in so many upscale private and public buildings constructed in the 1930s".
The Dobyns were prominent members of Pasadena society, Mr. Dobyns being a patent attorney and author whose book, The Underworld of American Politics exposed the origin and development of Chicago's Tammany Hall. He also wrote The Amazing Story of Repeal: An Expose of the Power of Propaganda. President Roosevelt personally selected him to prosecute John R. Walsh president of three of Chicago's biggest banks. Winifred Ursula Starr was a successful landscape architect and photographer. Among her accomplishments she wrote California Gardens documenting through artistic photographs the development of the "greatest gardens created in Southern California in the first two decades of the 20th century".
Located at 870 Chula Vista Avenue in the Upper Arroyo Seco neighborhood of Pasadena, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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Italianate Renaissance Revival style house designed by architect Joseph Kucera in 1932. the 6-bedroom 5-bath house in 5578 sq. ft. is currently (May 2018) on the market listed for sale for $5,595,000 and described in the listing as "Characterized by gracious homes from the late 1930s set amidst large trees and mature landscapes, the 5,578-square-foot Dobyns Estate was the first and nearly the largest house on this short street. Its high design blends formal Italian Renaissance Revival massing, gardens, and details such as the handsome column capitals and pilasters, with a more easy-going Spanish feeling, especially the relaxed asymmetry of the layout and in the inviting, porous relationship to the outdoors, seen in the large recessed rear terrace and the many pairs of French doors leading to the carefully laid out gardens or, upstairs, balconies.
The house was designed by a society architect and specialist in period revival styles, the Czech-American Joseph J. Kucera. The entry is a series of carefully orchestrated transitions, beginning with the approach, low myrtle hedges flanking the walkway through a shallow lawn and to a walled courtyard with a central fountain, paved with beautiful rectilinear paving stones present in so many upscale private and public buildings constructed in the 1930s".
The Dobyns were prominent members of Pasadena society, Mr. Dobyns being a patent attorney and author whose book, The Underworld of American Politics exposed the origin and development of Chicago's Tammany Hall. He also wrote The Amazing Story of Repeal: An Expose of the Power of Propaganda. President Roosevelt personally selected him to prosecute John R. Walsh president of three of Chicago's biggest banks. Winifred Ursula Starr was a successful landscape architect and photographer. Among her accomplishments she wrote California Gardens documenting through artistic photographs the development of the "greatest gardens created in Southern California in the first two decades of the 20th century".
Located at 870 Chula Vista Avenue in the Upper Arroyo Seco neighborhood of Pasadena, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
Tags: Michael Locke Michael Locke, Photographer Michael Locke, Realtor Treasures of Los Angeles Architecture Pasadena Architecture Pasadena Pasadena Heritage Joseph Kucera
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Italianate Renaissance Revival style house designed by architect Joseph Kucera in 1932. the 6-bedroom 5-bath house in 5578 sq. ft. is currently (May 2018) on the market listed for sale for $5,595,000 and described in the listing as "Characterized by gracious homes from the late 1930s set amidst large trees and mature landscapes, the 5,578-square-foot Dobyns Estate was the first and nearly the largest house on this short street. Its high design blends formal Italian Renaissance Revival massing, gardens, and details such as the handsome column capitals and pilasters, with a more easy-going Spanish feeling, especially the relaxed asymmetry of the layout and in the inviting, porous relationship to the outdoors, seen in the large recessed rear terrace and the many pairs of French doors leading to the carefully laid out gardens or, upstairs, balconies.
The house was designed by a society architect and specialist in period revival styles, the Czech-American Joseph J. Kucera. The entry is a series of carefully orchestrated transitions, beginning with the approach, low myrtle hedges flanking the walkway through a shallow lawn and to a walled courtyard with a central fountain, paved with beautiful rectilinear paving stones present in so many upscale private and public buildings constructed in the 1930s".
The Dobyns were prominent members of Pasadena society, Mr. Dobyns being a patent attorney and author whose book, The Underworld of American Politics exposed the origin and development of Chicago's Tammany Hall. He also wrote The Amazing Story of Repeal: An Expose of the Power of Propaganda. President Roosevelt personally selected him to prosecute John R. Walsh president of three of Chicago's biggest banks. Winifred Ursula Starr was a successful landscape architect and photographer. Among her accomplishments she wrote California Gardens documenting through artistic photographs the development of the "greatest gardens created in Southern California in the first two decades of the 20th century".
Located at 870 Chula Vista Avenue in the Upper Arroyo Seco neighborhood of Pasadena, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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