The open stairway near the front entrance is famous for its joinery. It's a kind of an "Acension" Cloud Lift. Josh and I tried to examined it, but then had to run to catch up to the docent, who seemed too much in a hurry. But then he didn't have to pay for his tour.
The Gamble House was the Gamble's winter house. The rest of the year they lived in Cinncinnati in a Queen Anne Victorian mansion. Eventually the Gamble House became their retirement home. I'll be the kids loved coming to Pasadena.
Here's a bit from Wikipedia: "The house and furnishings were designed by Charles and Henry Greene in 1908 for David and Mary Gamble of the Proctor and Gamble Company. The house, a National Historic Landmark, is owned by the city of Pasadena, and operated by the University of Southern California.
The house is also remembered as the mansion of Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy.
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