Van Rossem-Neil House
Greene & Greene
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Alternative Titles
Mrs. Josephine Van Rossem House, #1
James W. Neil House
Date
1903Description
Detail, clinker-brick and arroyo boulder wall built in an organic style, added 1913; Josephine Van Rossem, a newly widowed artist, photographic laboratory worker, and land speculator hired the Greenes in 1903 to design this rental property (at the time a simple $3,800 clapboard cottage with a balloon frame), the first of three houses she would commission from them. Located across from her Arroyo View Drive home, she could easily keep an eye on her rental investment. The alterations for the later owner James Neil included the addition of the porch structure, the expressed timbers, the massive boulder and clinker brick wall, the pergola across the brick-paved drive and the conversion to the natural shingle (from horizontal clapboard siding). Source: Greene & Greene Virtual Archives (USC) {website]; http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/greeneandgreene/index.html (accessed 8/9/2013)
Type of Work
houseSubject
architecture, Housing, domestic architecture, Craftsman, Twentieth century, Arts and Crafts (movement)
Rights
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