1916
New Yorkers E. Palmer and Marie Gavit purchase the property, naming it Cuesta Linda. Pasadena based architect Reginald Johnson completes the main house in 1920. Ganna Walska is a singer at the Century, a French theater in New York. A…
New Yorkers E. Palmer and Marie Gavit purchase the property, naming it Cuesta Linda. Pasadena based architect Reginald Johnson completes the main house in 1920. Ganna Walska is a singer at the Century, a French theater in New York. A…
Hanna adopts the stage name Madame Ganna Walska and studies singing in Paris with Polish tenor Jean de Reszke.
Stevens’ widow sells the property to neighbor George Owen Knapp.
Stevens dies. His struggling widow operates the property as a guest ranch, leases it to a school and eventually rents it out to winter visitors until selling it seventeen years later.
Ganna Walska, nee Hanna Puacz, is born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland.
Ralph Kinton Stevens buys the property, which he names Tanglewood and uses the acreage for his family’s home and commercial nursery.