photograph by The Eyes Have It! via Flickr
Steedman Estate (Casa del Herrero), CA: The George and Carrie Steedman Estate, named Casa del Herrero by its owners, stands as one of the most fully developed, richly documented and intact examples of the America Country Place Era. Its gardens, architecture, interior design, and furnishings appear untouched by time and reflect a remarkable sense of artistic unity and authenticity in representing the evolution of Spanish Colonial Revival design in the United States. George Fox Steedman, an industrialist, engineer, and amateur architect, had a vision for the house and grounds that went beyond fashion, and he assembled an extraordinary team of architects, landscape architects, antiquarians, and horticulturists to produce the Casa del Herrero estate (House of the Blacksmith).