Wrigley Mansion Pasadena
by Joseph Hollingsworth
Title
Wrigley Mansion Pasadena
Artist
Joseph Hollingsworth
Medium
Mixed Media - Digital Painting - Photograph
Description
In 1921, William Wrigley Jr., Midwestern chewing gum magnate and owner of the Chicago Cubs and Catalina Island, gave an interview in his lovely winter mansion at 391 South Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena. "Coming to Southern California is like taking up golf," he explained to a reporter from the LA Times, "once you start, you can never give it up." The Wrigley mansion, called "the Shadows" because of the shaded patterns that played on the tree-covered lawn, was designed by noted SoCal architect G. Lawrence Stimson. It was built on Pasadena's Millionaire's Row, famed as the street where "every house is a mansion and every resident a millionaire.
Wrigley's retreat is seen by Americans across the country every New Year's Day in its role as Tournament House, the official headquarters of the Tournament of Roses, started by early Pasadena's pioneering boosters in 1890 to "tell the world about our paradise."
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November 11th, 2017
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