Casa del Herrero
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Steedman Estate
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Montecito, California, USA |
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1925 |
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Private |
| NRHP Reference#: |
87000002 |
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01987-01-29 January 29, 1987[1] |
| Designated NHL: |
02009-01-16 January 16, 2009[2] |
Casa del Herrero (also known as the Steedman Estate) is a home and gardens located in Montecito near Santa Barbara, California. It is an estate designed and constructed in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and made a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009.[2] Today the entire 11-acre (45,000 m2) site is owned and operated as a historic house museum and garden by the non-profit Casa del Herrero Foundation, with the goal of restoring and preserving the house and grounds.
History
Casa del Herrero ( 'House of the Blacksmith' ) was designed for George Fox Steedman and his wife, from St. Louis, by the renowned architect George Washington Smith. The residence was completed in 1925. George Fox Steedman, an industrialist, engineer, and amateur architect, had a vision for the house and grounds that went beyond fashion, and he assembled an extraordinary team of architects, landscape architects, antiquarians, and horticulturists, to produce the Casa del Herrero estate —considered one of the finest examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in America. His participation in every detail of the property’s buildings, furnishings, and gardens is the reason the estate makes a single artistic statement that is greater than the sum of its parts. [3] In the 1930s his former associate Lutah Maria Riggs designed the jewel-like octagonal library addition for the Steedmans. Today the estate is recognized as a masterpiece of the American Country Place era, rare with undiminished acreage and exceptional continuity of stewardship.
Tours
Docent-led Tours of the Casa del Herrero house, gardens and workshop are available by reservation.[4] The Casa del Herrero Foundation offers the tours on Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 am and 2 pm. The address is 1387 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA 93108.
“Use well thy time. Fast fly my hours. Good work lives on. The night brings rest.” George Fox Steedman
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