coverage of the american civil war museum's annual symposium at the library of virginia in richmond. we bring you programs exploring our nations passed on c-span3. we will be back after this short break. the author of the armies of deliverance, a new history of the civil war. now a look at the local history of pasadena, california. join us as we take you inside the gamble house. this was built by charles and henry greene for the gamble family of procter & gamble. >> their people that come here because someone dragged them here while they were visiting pasadena and come away astounded. there are people that come here from around the world and around the country who say i've always

wanted to see the gamble house .nd this is my chance they're people who live in similar houses around southern california who feel in affinity with the gamble house because it reminds them of the artistic, grown-up version of what their house was aspiring to be. you have people with all different interests in the house. movementsman ne brought people with a more instinct. it is more concern for materials and the origin of the materials. in the landscape there is a lot boulders that have washed down naturally from the hills. it is the idea that things have washed down and are being used, picked for their particular

qualities to be included in the landscape of the house. the garden design being something drawn from the landscape around it. that moves on to the terraces. when you see the exterior of the house and this natural, woodsy look on the outside, it is a surprise to see how refined the materials are inside. exoticthat a lot of hardwoods are used in the interior of the house. that kind of continuity between the woods and materials themselves, how they are used to express structural language, to see that reflected inside is what holds those two things together. even though there is a level of refinement, it is different than the houses in the neoclassical popular with a lot of people in pasadena from 1910 to 1913, just before world war i. they were the force behind this

house. they started coming to pasadena a few years earlier and would hotel. the maryland one of the big resort hotels in pasadena that a lot of people would come to for the winter season. after a few years of that they decided they wanted a place in pasadena to call their home for part of the year. mr. gamble was retired from procter & gamble so yet the leisure to do that. they purchased the property in 1907. around that time being gauged greene and greene as their architects. charles and henry greene were brothers. they were born in 1868 and 1869 in st. louis. they had done their architectural training in boston at m.i.t. the architectural program at the time they gave you a choice of a two-year program or for your program.- or four year

they had a good deal of training at the high school level. they went directly to architecture school for those two years. when i got out they interned toh firms in the boston area get the experience they needed to actually become architects. they were exposed to a lot of the single-style architecture popular around boston at the time. greatere exposed to the houses of the east coast that were being built in the late 19th century, and brought that aesthetic and a lot of that sensibility to pasadena. the craftsman movement we are talking about the relationship between people who make things, the things they make, and who they make them for. charles greene had a relationship with his family where they were talking in detail of what they wanted in their house and what would be included.

charles greene had a hands-on way of working with the materials, working with the craftsman. it was the same craftsman who did everything from the rough framing through the finish work and build the furniture over the years.ng two charles and henry greene were the leading lights of the craftsman movement on the west coast to some extent. they're one of the a small handful of architects who led that movement. people knew of their work around the country, but most of their work was in the pasadena area, specifically in pasadena itself. we are heading into a neighborhood called park place when it was first developed in the 1880's. it is what we now call arroyo terrace, the name of the street. the idea behind the architecture

was to make these connections the between the landscape and the houses. to kind of extend the design ideas behind the houses to the landscape. this is something that was not true of all craftsman architecture, but it was important for greene and greene. henry greene had an interest in landscape architecture, and would do things like, there is one house where he designed and orange orchard in someone's backyard. that was a time when there really were orange groves in pasadena. it is something that would have been familiar from the landscape. to bring that to a domestic setting i think is intriguing. here you can see what the more typical houses were like around 1910. interesting neoclassical architecture that is more formal, with a very different feel. connectionocal

compared to the craftsman architecture in pasadena. you can see some of the retaining walls with a mixture of brick, than this fired brick, blackened brick -- the misfired brick, blackened brick that they liked to use for a landscae work. this battered profile that the walls have. it is or could magic feature of what is a simple house. greene and greene came back to the house later. henry greene designed the driveway. they kept coming back over the course of their careers and people would invite them to come back and make changes and additions to the house as their needs changed. greene'se is charles

three sisters-in-law. they got to live next door to the sister. the family of charles greene's had money andeene they were able to finance the purchase of lot and the construction of the two houses. you can see how the retaining wall lines the street and has it torages tucked into take advantage of the great. ade. we talking about the idea of a total work of art. it can extend from the landscape to the landscape design of the property itself, to the house, to the furnishing, and the decorative arts inside the house. greene had written an article entitled architecture is a fine art. that tells a lot about how he saw a house.

it was not just going to be the walls he built and fill it with beautiful things come the house would be a thing of beauty and have the same level of craftsmanship and materials that relationship between who would be making things and what they were going to produce.if we look at a light fixture , like the hanging lights in this house, it took charles greene to decide what that fixture would look like. it took the woodworkers he was working with at the workshop to fabricate the wood parts of it. and took the glassmaker that they worked with to make the class parts of the lantern itself. glassollaboration -- parts of the lantern itself. it is a collaboration between the person conceiving the work and putting it together. it is something you see in room after room. it is not just someone who says there is at fixture,

process of running through different craftsman and artists to make that happen. it also goes down to smaller levels. rosewood int the this room, it is something. you don't see another houses there looking at ways to fill invest based between the top of the doors and the ceiling. you will see an house to house how they found different solutions to make that interesting and express something different in each house. in the gamble home and has a distinctive pattern in the grain of the redwood. you can see how they have chosen the scene that is depicted based on what they read in the grain. it could be a grain pattern that looks like an old tree, or a pattern that looks like water, or wind, or something like that. they let the piece of wood itself guide what is going to be depicted.

the interesting thing about a greene and greene house is there something that can exit to that commission. door.it is the front the glass work in the front door is really distinctive in terms it spreadsf and how across all of the different panels to the side screens. glass story something special that people identify with the gamble house. the gamble family moved into the house late in 1909. they had the house until 1966. it was in the family for a long time. they understood the value of it. they always kept the collections in tact and the house in good condition. of thetwo generations family that lived here. the first generation david and mary gamble built the house and

lived here until their death, mr. gamble in 1923 and mrs. gamble a few years later. who wemble had a sister, lia. as on julia -- aunt ju she lived in the house probably the longest of anyone. she was here until 1943. in the late 40's, the family was deciding what to do -- >> and we return now to our live coverage of the american civil war museum' symposium in richmond, virginias. this is c-span3's american history tv. >> just a few other remarks as you are taking your seat. wes enterprise that