["Il Paradiso," Mrs. Dudley Peter Allen house, 1188…
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Site History. House Architecture: Greene & Greene, 1911-1913. Landscape: Greene & Greene, 1911-1913. Other: Elisabeth Severance (Mrs. Dudley P.) Allen married Francis Fleury Prentiss the year Frances Benjamin Johnston photographed the house and garden. Cordelia Culbertson, original builder, sold the house in 1917. Today: Private house, garden not extant. "CA 39." Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011. Same image as lantern slide LC-J717-X110-43. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited in: "Greene & Greene: Architecture in photographs" at the Pasadena Art Museum, 2008-2009. Exhibited: "Groundbreakers : Great American Gardens and the Women Who Designed Them" at the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Gardens, New York, N.Y., May - October 2014.
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