Ernest and Florence Bent Halstead House and Grounds

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Ernest and Florence Bent Halstead House and Grounds

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The Bent-Halstead House
Location 4200 Glenalbyn Drive, Los Angeles
Built 1912
Architectural style(s) American Craftsman
Owner Private
Designated November 4, 1988
Reference no. 394

The Ernest and Florence Bent Halstead House is an American Craftsman style home built in 1912 in Los Angeles, California.

American Craftsman American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle

The American Craftsman style, or the American Arts and Crafts movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art movement, it remained popular into the 1930s. However, in decorative arts and architectural design, it has continued with numerous revivals and restoration projects through present times.

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History

Built in 1912, the Bent-Halstead House was designed by the firm of Eager & Eager for Ernest Bent. It was later owned by Bent's sister, Florence Bent-Halstead. The house features a floor plan similar to a Ranch-style house, far ahead of its time. [1]

Ranch-style house domestic architectural style originating in the United States

Ranch is a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout. The house style fused modernist ideas and styles with notions of the American Western period of wide open spaces to create a very informal and casual living style. While the original style of the ranch was very informal and basic in design, starting around the early 1960s, many ranch-style houses constructed in the United States were increasingly built with more dramatic features like varying roof lines, cathedral ceilings, sunken living rooms, and extensive landscaping and grounds.

The Bent brothers' construction company built the Devil's Gate Dam in the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California, and the Sweetwater Dam in San Diego County, California.

Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County) human settlement in the United States of America

The Arroyo Seco, meaning "dry stream" in Spanish, is a 24.9-mile-long (40.1 km) seasonal river, canyon, watershed, and cultural area in Los Angeles County, California. The area was explored by Gaspar de Portolà who named the stream Arroyo Seco as this canyon had the least water of any they had seen. During this exploration he met the Chief Hahamog-na (Hahamonga) of the Tongva Indians.

Pasadena, California City in California, United States

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 10 miles northeast of Downtown Los Angeles.

Bonita, California census-designated place in California, United States

Bonita is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Diego County, California, nestled between the cities of Chula Vista, National City, and San Diego. The population was 12,538 at the 2010 census.

Historic-Cultural Monument

The Ernest and Florence Bent Halstead House and Grounds is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, declared Monument #394 on November 4, 1988. It had been nominated by Charles J. Fisher and the Highland Park Heritage Trust. [2]

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments are sites in Los Angeles, California, which have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission as worthy of preservation based on architectural, historic and cultural criteria.

Charles J. Fisher is an American published author and Los Angeles-based historic preservation activist who has successfully nominated more than 140 historic buildings as City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments.

The house is located at 4200 Glenalbyn Drive in Mt. Washington, Los Angeles.

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