Anonymous ID: d9fdac March 10, 2018, 7 a.m. No.611792   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1868

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wikimapia.org/11806954/Canfield-Moreno-Estate

 

Also known as The Paramour Mansion, or The Crestmount, the Mediterranean-style country villa was constructed in 1923 by architect Robert D. Farquhar. As the opulent former residence of silent film star Antonio Moreno and his wife and oil heiress, Daisy Canfield Danziger, it was the scene for lavish Sunday afternoon parties for members of high society and silent screen notables. In 1933, Daisy Canfield was returning from a party and died when her car plunged off Mulholland Drive. Since then, the 22-room estate has seen many incarnations. It would soon be the Chloe P. Canfield School for Girls. In 1950, it became a convent for Franciscan nuns, who sold the property in 1987 after it was damaged by the Whittier Narrows earthquake. It is now used as a recording studio.

 

Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale, Beck, Lucinda Williams, Fiona Apple, Sarah McLachlan, Colin James, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Sting, Elton John, John Mayer, & the Red Hot Chili Peppers have recorded music here.

 

The 2016 film "The Neon Demon" was filmed at the Canfield-Moreno Estate – also known as the Paramour Mansion. Scenes from "Intolerable Cruelty" (2003), "Scream 3" (2000) and "Halloween: H2O" (1998) were also filmed at the house & its swimming pool; as well as Britney Spears’ music video for ‘My Prerogative’.>>611695

Anonymous ID: d9fdac March 10, 2018, 7:12 a.m. No.611868   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1931

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some interesting facts on the architect Robert D. Farquhar and his father David Webber Farquhar

 

 

Farquhar was born in Brooklyn, the son of David Webber Farquhar (1844–1905) and Sarah Malvina Joslyn. He attended Phillips Exeter and Harvard (class of 1893). Farquhar completed an architectural degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1893–1895), and then attended École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1896–1901), where he organized the first ever American football game played in Europe. He returned to New York and worked in the office of Hunt & Hunt, and of Carrère and Hastings.

 

Farquhar moved to Los Angeles in 1905 and practised architecture there. He was appointed a member of the architectural commission of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915, and designed Festival Hall. He went to Italy with the American Red Cross in 1918, and re-opened his office in Los Angeles in 1919. The Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects awarded Farquhar its Distinguished Honor Award for the William Andrews Clark Mausoleum, and Certificates of Honor for the design of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the California Club. He worked with chief architect George Edwin Bergstrom on design of the Pentagon in 1941. The archives of his architectural studies and drawings are maintained at the UCLA Department of Special Collections.