The Lanterman House in La Cañada Flintridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, will have a Holiday Open House on Sunday, December 19, 1 to 4 p.m., sponsored by the City of La Cañada Flintridge and the non-profit Lanterman Historical Museum Foundation which now maintains and administers the home.
This free Open House event will include light refreshments and live holiday music. The house will be festively decorated for the season, including a Christmas tree decorated with botanicals and native plant ornaments. An exhibit tracing the history of gingerbread and Christmases past will be on display. Visitors can create holiday-themed ornaments.
The Visitor Center will also exhibit homemade gingerbread houses for the third annual Lanterman House Gingerbread Contest. As a visitor, you can join the fun and vote for your favorite.
Built in 1915, the Lanterman House was the home of Dr. Roy Lanterman and his wife, Emily, and is now owned by La Cañada Flintridge.
Covering about 11,500 square feet, including the basement, the home was the first totally reinforced concrete home built west of the Mississippi River. It was designed by architect Arthur Haley and features a U-shaped Mexican Colonial hacienda design with a fountain courtyard in the middle, pergolas with plantings on all sides of the house, and English Arts and Crafts design elements throughout.
Dr. Lanterman’s parents initially settled in the Crescenta-Cañada Valley in 1875. After practicing as a doctor in Los Angeles, Lanterman decided to return to his childhood home with his wife and two teenage sons, and decided to build this lavish home to convince his wife, who came from a wealthy family in Santa Monica, to move and enjoy the rural and isolated location.
Roy and Emily Lanterman lived in the home from 1915 until their deaths in 1948 and 1949, respectively. Their son Lloyd was a mechanical engineer who was known for designing race car engines. He left the family home and all of its original furnishings to the city in 1987.
Visitors are advised to wear masks throughout the grounds of the Lanterman House while in the vicinity of other people.
For more information, call (818) 790-1421 or visit www.lantermanhouse.org/events-
The Lanterman House is at 4420 Encinas Drive in La Canada Flintridge.
