Early B&W Pictures:  The Stone House   Interior   Construction  The Builder   Early Family  Garden Pictures

Early Slides: Background  Spring in the Garden  Other Seasons  Propagation  Specimens The Stone House

Introduction


The Stone House in the First Anderson Garden

 

    
One of Bob's first jobs
    as a landscape architect was to redesign the gardens of Mr. Tomlinson,
    president of Nabisco. Mr. Tomlinson introduced Bob to a construction
    technique using concrete poured into forms behind a facing of
    large stones.

    
Before building the family
    dreamhouse, Bob experimented with the technique on a one-room
    cottage.

    


    
This house 50 years later can be seen in the photo from space.
It is to the right of the main house in the lower center of the 
picture, and in this picture  during construction in 1941.



    


    After World War II, he began
    construction of the main house. The two-storey central section
    came first, followed by the garage and breezeway, an air funnel
    for summer cooling. (Years later, he incorporated this device
    in his design of the Enumclaw house.) Next he built the living/diningroom
    wing (left), and finally, a bedroom wing (foreground.)

 

    
Bob's design was influenced
    by both European and early American stone houses. One of them,
    the Sayre house across the lake, was built in the early 1700s.

    
The courtyard rather than
    front lawn was another idea Bob picked up on his tour of European
    estates and gardens.

    
All of the rocks were found
    on site and placed by hand. (See more construction detail in
    the B&W pictures.)