Kimberly Crest House & Gardens, Redlands

Catharine Hamm / For The Times /

Kimberly Crest House & Gardens, Redlands

If you're a fool for historic houses, you cannot help but enjoy the Kimberly Crest mansion. The air quality and the heat index can be an issue in the Inland Empire summer, but the cool elegance of this French chateau in the middle of Smog Central is so unexpected that it is, well, sort of a breath of fresh air.