Architecture
In 1922, C. E. Toberman hired architects Russell & Alpaugh to design his Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style dream house, which took two years to build and was completed in 1924. The estate, built on a 2-acre (8,100 m2) lot, includes a 19-room, 9,800-square-foot (910 m2) main house, a 1,809-square-foot (168.1 m2) guest apartment and garage, and a separate natatorium with a 30 by 50-foot (15 m) tiled pool with cabanas under skylights. The main house has eight fireplaces, a butler's pantry and cut-crystal doorknobs. Toberman, who lived to be 101 years old, recalled in a 1981 interview that the estate became "practically a country club" with its enclosed swimming pool, tennis courts, a nine-hole pitch-and-putt golf course, and formal gardens.
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