Hunt & Chambers: Emery house (San Marino, Calif.)

This estate for Katherine Sinclair Emery (widow of Frank Emery, who at the time of his death was considered one of the richest men in California) sits on 9 acres in San Marino. The Tudor style house is now known as Thornton Gardens. Hunt worked with landscape architects Florence Yoch, Lucille Council, and Katherine Bashford on the estate gardens.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation acquired the house in 2018, along with the Huntington Library, and will preserve the house and grounds.

Myron Hunt, architect
Harold Chambers, architect
Hunt & Chambers, architects
W.M. Clarke, photographer
Florence Yoch and Lucille Council, landscape architects
Katherine Bashford, landscape architect

Myron Hunt & H. G. Chambers records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

1926-1927

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