glendale: Eagle Rock historical French Nordic farmhouse
- 05/20/11 07:55 PM
Looking for an Eagle Rock historical French Nordic farmhouse? Here it is! Originally part of a late 1800s working farm, later purchased in the 1900's by Albert Braasch, an Eagle Rock pioneer and entrepreneur, who commissioned the architect Jean L. Egasse to design the farmhouse along "Norman lines, such as were left by the decedents of the Vikings, following their journey from an ante-medieval period, were the main source of inspiration." ("California Southland, December 1923").
The collaboration between architect and owner is evident in the architect's "French-cum-Nordic" theme mingling medieval with storybook fastasy, as noted in the book "Los (1 comments)