Contributing Institution:
The Gamble House
4 Westmoreland Place
Pasadena, CA 91103
626-793-3334
http://www.gamblehouse.org/
Contributing Institution:
Greene and Greene Archives
University of Southern California
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Rd.
San Marino, CA 91108
626-405-2232
http://www.gamblehouse.org/
Physical Description:
1060 items in the GGVA
Scope and Content Note
The decorative arts collection at The Gamble House, University of Southern California consisted initially of furnishings given
with the house by the Gamble family in 1966 to the City of Pasadena in a joint agreement with USC. Subsequent gifts of Greene
& Greene objects and decorative arts from the Arts and Crafts period have significantly increased the size of the collection
and help to better interpret and contextualize the work of Greene & Greene. Most of the collection's decorative arts are
housed at The Gamble House, USC and in the Greene & Greene exhibition gallery within the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery at
The Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The Decorative Arts and Furniture Collection includes furniture made for
the Gamble House, the Thorsen House, the Bolton House, the Robinson House, and the Cordelia Culbertson House, as well as individual
pieces made for Mrs. Willis Walker, Mary J. Moore, and Belle Barlow Bush, when she resided in the Bolton House. Also included
are views of the interior of the Gamble House, showing interior details such as the living room friezes, art glass light fixtures
and windows, the main staircase, and fireplaces. Furniture from houses other than the Gamble House is housed at the Huntington
Library, Art Galleries and Botanical Gardens, where a replica of the Robinson dining room has been built to display the Robinson
dining room furniture and ceiling lantern. A selection of recent photographic documentation of the firm's furniture and other
decorative arts is presented as part of the Greene & Greene Virtual Archives.
The Greene & Greene Archives, USC within the Huntington Library is an eclectic collection of Greene & Greene materials. Since
its inception, over four hundred donors have given Greene & Greene a wide variety of items including original job files containing
client and vendor correspondence, original drawings, drawing surrogates from other repositories, personal correspondence,
specifications, contracts, post cards, invoices, notes, building permits, advertisements, philosophical writings, books, newspaper
and magazine articles about Greene & Greene or their projects, memorabilia, sketchbooks, and scrapbooks. These items have
been divided into three groups: 1) original documents that were among the personal or firm records of architects Greene &
Greene 2) Gamble family records, and 3) reference materials. The reference collection of secondary materials consists of letters,
snapshots of the Greene & Greene houses at various times, postcards, owner obituaries, published articles about the houses
and an array of miscellany and ephemera that are organized by project. Generally, only primary resource documents from the
first two groups, or those created by Charles or Henry Greene or the Greene & Greene firm, have been selected for the GGVA.
View Finding Aid at:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/greeneandgreene/findingaid