French Chateau Gallery
Pasadena, California 1985

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	Château Entrance
	Entrance Gates
	Entrance Gates Close-up
	Motor Court and Fountain
	Château Entry
	Château Entry Close-up
	Swimming Pool Courtyard
	Swimming Pool
	Wall Fountain
	Wall Fountain Close-up
	Pool House Entry
	Pool House Interior View
	Pool House Interior View
	Dining Garden
	Tented Tennis Pavilion

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French Château Pasadena, California 1989:

This Estate was originally constructed in the late seventies in an old established upscale neighborhood located just north of the Huntington Library. The original owners attempted to create a residence in the French Style.

Unfortunately what they ended up with was something resembling a stucco box more in the style of a sixties apartment complex.

In the late 1980’s Glen Hampton garden designs received a distress call from the new owners wanting to know what could be done to make their new home more elegant. As luck would have it Landscape Designer Glen Hampton, although a Landscape Professional, had started his education as a building Architect and in fact had remodeled a couple of homes, along with their gardens, for previous clients.

Glen was able to salvage the existing structure, by adding pre-cast concrete components to the existing façade and limestone paving to the existing interior pool courtyard; creating a gated motor court with classic fountain; and turning an unused carport into a pool house transitioning through a small dining garden to a tented tennis pavilion. The result is a California version of a French Château set within its formal classic gardens.




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