Visual Materials
An album containing 117 photographs with a variety of interior and exterior views of the Doheny mansion and grounds at Chester Place, one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles. The first half of the album is exterior views, showing entrances, ivy-covered walls, plant- and palm-lined walkways, a greenhouse or conservatory, a large garage, and tennis courts. The second half of the album has interior areas, showing lavushly decorated public rooms with heavy furniture, dark woodwork, painted ceilings, animal skin rugs, statues and vases, a grand piano decorated with painted scenes, and multiple coffee/tea sets; a room with a high domed glass ceiling and marble pillars; a billiard room; a dining room shown with and without the table and chairs in place; a room decorated with Native American rugs, a long, feathered headdress, and a stuffed bald eagle; several bedrooms with varying degrees of decoration; multiple bathrooms; and a large, long, empty hall. Only one photograph includes people, a view of an office with two women.
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