Located in the prestigious Madison Heights area of Pasadena, this Craftsman style residence, which has been featured in Pasadena Heritage's Annual Craftsman Weekend, was designed by architect, Charles F. Driscoll, and built by renowned Pasadena contractor, Leonard Bukowski, in 1916. Once considered one of the finest homes in Pasadena and one of the most unique in the whole country, from the standpoint of interior finish and decoration, this house is early Craftsman in style, strongly influencedby architect Charles Driscoll's mid-western roots, with some late Victorian elements, such as the bay windows. Original owner, A. Burlingame Johnson, was one of Pasadena's most well-known citizens. During his career, Mr. Johnson was a newspaper man in Utah, a rancher in Colorado, American Consul general stationed in China, and a captain of industry first in the Philippines, then in Pasadena. He also served in the California State Assembly and the Senate This house was designed to reflectthe owner's interests, with solid ribboned mahogany, the most expensive and rarest kind of mahogany, shipped from his lumberyard in the Philippines for construction, and featuring elaborate interior ornamentation of Chinese carvings and exquisite, exotic decorations, collect
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