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fantastic detail that transformsan otherwise plain room into a place of marvelous beauty. It's a detail that would be suitable in many settings in the home.

Makingan Entrance

Anyone with more than a casual familiarity with the work of Greene & Greene has seen exatnplesof their magnificent entry doors. The California live oak motif on the Gamble house doors is probably the best-known example, but several other homes - including the Ford and Blacker houses - have similarly striking

entrances with impressive details.

While the main entrances are most impressive, many other common doors within these homes are quite beautiful. As with numerous elements in a Greene &r Greene house, the design vocabulary ties doors into the whole.

In the Gamble house, sunbursts (long elements angled at the top to model the sun's rays)appear in doorsand windows. In the Blacker house, "Blacker brackets'' grace the corners of many exterior doors as well as windows. In the Freeman Ford house, several interior doors include art glass simi

lar in design to that in the impressive main entry door. Recurring themes are a Greene &r Greene hallmark.

The Halstead house (1906) was a very modest commission for the Greenes. Originally quite small, it was built with a single bedroom. Yet even in thishumble home there is considerable attention to detail. Many interior doors are a four-panel design, one over three. The center bottom panel is shorter than those flankingit. The rails above and below the bottom panels are angled to meet the shorter panel rather than stepped. This is a subtle,

Entrances

Subtle details. Interior doors in the Freeman Ford house are rich in detail. Art glass lights and cloudlifts add elegance in an understated way.

Mot an ordinary door. This door from the Hal-stead house reveals variations in door components that require extra effort in construction.

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The Bath

Sign of the times. In the early 1900s, while was the preferred color for bath-rooms Im ause it was considered sanitary. The Gamble master bathrcx>m followed this dictum, but in a style keeping with the rest of the house.

An accurate reflection. In Charles Greene's Pasadena home, the medicine cabinet contains elements that appear in the woodwork in other parts of the home.

One for the Blackers.

In the Blac ker house, the bathroom cabinet was enhanced with art-glass doors, and the bracket detail is also present.