![]() Another Spanish type building was actually the Old Mill, on the San Marino Ranch. Huntington’s & his Huntington Land & Improvement Co. Maybe a whiskey, a sherry, or a hot toddy to warm up their house guests. They had a pair of iron & brass andirons at the fireplace. ![]() In the winter mornings or afternoons, the Huntington’s footmen or parlor maid could have lit a nice fire in the fireplace with the brass andirons. It was decorated with lovely Autumnal colors of red, yellow, Naples yellow (creamy yellow-white) & terra cotta. A place Henry “Edwards” Huntington and friends could go to smoke a cigar and have a glass of whiskey. The Billards Room/Bowling Alley was decorated like a Gentlemen’s Hunting Lodge with taxidermy birds & Spanish-Style décor. Decorated in lovely autumnal colors this is actually the Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara, CA Photo Credit: Nancy Armitage Spanish Rancho architecture & ceiling echoes what the Huntington Billard’sRoom/Bowling Alley might have looked like. Document: maps housed at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA shown to me by HEH Collection curators. It was a long rectangle shape with another rectangle protruding in the middle to the left (shaped like a sideways “T”). On a 1921 map for City of San Marino (Made at Cal Tech by engineers, it shows us what shape this building was). She requested daily and weekly flower arrangements for the Huntington mansion. Arabella Huntington’s fragrant cutting flower garden. In a aerial photograph of the San Marino property, the Billiards/Bowling Alley went from the front of the existing teahouse to the very back of the existing “Herb Garden”. This structure is where the Huntington Library “Tea House” is now. It was located just west of the Huntington Mansion through the fragrant Rose Pergola & the large Bird Aviary. The building was long & narrow building running north & south. This was a large long building structure seen on old maps (1927 San Marino Ranch called “Demolition map”). The Billiards Room had a Billiards Table & a pool table. ![]() Huntington’s Estate, San Marino Ranch, there once was a Bowling Alley with a Billiard’s Room. This is actually the Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara, CA at Christmas time. Huntington Mansion on San Marino Ranch, CAīy Nancy Armitage Beautiful Spanish type architecture with carved wooden door & hand-painted beamed ceiling. But we do know that the Huntington’s Billard Room/Bowling Alley had more of a Spanish Hacienda Decor. Huntington’s Billards Room /Bowling Alley actually look like? It did have animal trophies like this one, & a fireplace, maybe wood paneling. Huntington’s San Marino Ranch, Southern California What did Mr.
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