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One-hundred-year-old Altadena house (designed by Louis duPuget Millar)
available for location shooting.
Someone present on-site nearly all the time -- easy to gain access
PROPERTY FEATURES
With 5,400 sq feet and 24 rooms on a half-acre lot, the house features
- 9' ceilings on the 1st floor, 8' ceilings on 2nd and 3rd floors
- House faces south
- Nice collection of 1920's furniture
- Grand piano and pipe organ in the living room
- Extensive contemporary art collection -- all art has been cleared
- Oriental carpets throughout
- Flat and large back yard with circular driveway -- convenient for parking about 10-12 cars or 4-5 vans
- Gently rolling front yard -- park-like setting with 7 oak trees
- Friendly neighbors accustomed to filming in the neighborhood
- Five bedrooms-but, you could set it up as 8 bedrooms if you wanted a treatment center appearance
- House could also serve as a private school -- large rooms with LOTS of windows
- Two of three baths have original 1915 bathroom fixtures in very good condition
- Many turn-of-the-last century light fixtures
- Gorgeous hard-wood floors in main traffic areas
- Third-floor Artist Studio
Flowing floor plan - great long shots throughout the house almost every room has 2 or more doors--some rooms have 3 doors.
Call us at the number listed above or send an email.
ABOUT THE ARCHITECT
Louis DuPuget Millar (1877 - 1944)
Attributed architect for the Kate Duncan House
Millar born Monkstown, Ireland, on July 26, 1877, second of eight children.Father, Richard Chaytor Millar, foremost architect in Dublin, living and working there for most of his life, Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Distinguished relative to Louis was his cousin Marconi of wireless telegraphy fame. Louis is the only one of his siblings to choose to make his home in America. The oldest son, Adam Gerald Chaytor Millar, carried on his father's architectural firm in Dublin after the senior Millar's death-major client was the Bank of Ireland.
In 1906, Louis married Ethel A. Lett, born of an old and prominent Dublin family. Migrates to the U.S. in1907 and settles in Riverside, California for four years. While there, Louis designed The William Child House (1910) recognized by the City of Riverside in 1999 as one of the best examples of a Craftsman bungalow in Riverside.
In 1911 he moved to Pasadena and opened his own office in partnership with George A. Clark, a local haberdasher turned architect. He also worked for the respected design/build firm of Austin and Grable. Louis' 1911 office was in the Braley Building on South Raymond.
Millar and Clark designed several finely crafted houses along the Arroyo, frequently working with the Wopschall Brothers, a local contracting firm. An example of one of their Craftsman houses is the Mannheim house, still existing at 490 South Arroyo Boulevard, which Gebhard and Winter in their book Architecture In Los Angeles call a beautifully sited Craftsman house.
Millar also designed commercial buildings, several of which remain on East Green Street. These structures are particularly distinctive. A small Spanish Colonial Revival building stands at 589 East Green at the northeast corner of Madison. Designed by Millar in association with Edward A. Hayes in 1928, this building has been designated as a structure of merit by the Pasadena Cultural Heritage Commission.
Another structure of merit stands at 593-97 East Green, a two-story Monterey Colonial brick structure. It contained the offices of Millar and Hayes during the early 1930s.
Probably Millar's best-known commercial building remaining in Pasadena is the 2 story brick and concrete Colonial Revival creation at 1030-40 East Green, originally built for the Cheesewright Studios. In 1936, Millar had an office there. Designed in 1928, it is an imposing building, having a central courtyard with a fountain and flanking arcades. It was featured in an issue of Architectural Digest in 1929.
Louis wrote articles for popular magazines of the day: March 1916 issue of Ladies' Home Journal; The House Beautiful issue of November 1916.
The Dictionary of Irish Architects states that He later moved to the San Joaquin Valley, where he designed a number of Methodist and Episcopalian churches. He died of a heart attack at Bakersfield, Kern County, California on 23 February 1944. At the time of his death he was in partnership with Mahard Charles Crowder (Crowder & Millar). A Bakersfield newspaper excerpt describes the opening of a new building designed by Louis duP. Millar from the firm Crowder & Millar in November of 1941.
A BRIEF HISTORY
Built for high fashion designer, Kate Mohn Duncan, born 1865, the house appears to be the outward appearance of a successful career in fashion because Mrs. Duncan commissioned the building of this home before her 50th birthday. Prior to the Altadena home, she had already commissioned a bungalow behind the Wrigley Mansion in Pasadena from the Greene & Greene brothers in 1906 when only in her 30's. Purportedly a divorcee, Kate had no children, yet she fancied this large house that could easily sleep 7-14 people.
Kate was comfortable in high society. At the age of 21, she was hired to be the companion to the daughter of California's 18th governor. One of her more notable dress-design clients was General George Patton's mother, Ruth Wilson, of San Gabriel.
The current owners of the Kate Duncan House reason that the 3rd floor studio must have been a wonderful creative space for Kate because it has windows on all 4 sides of the large room.
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