In memory of Flintridge’s founding father
This La Canada Flintridge home was built for Katharine B. Flint, widow of U.S. Sen. Frank P. Flint, founder and developer of the city’s Flintridge area.
The Republican senator died of heart disease in February 1929, at the age of 66, while on a world cruise with his wife of nearly 40 years. His widow had architect Paul Williams design this house in the American Colonial Georgian Revival style favored by her late husband.
Frank Flint first knew Williams as the youngster who sold him newspapers in downtown Los Angeles. After Williams became an architect, the senator helped arrange for him to design more than 40 homes in Flintridge. Williams also designed homes for movie stars, including Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra, and he was the first black member and the first black fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
About the owners: The house has been owned for 16 years by Robert G. van Schoonenberg and his wife, Sandy. He is executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Pasadena-based label maker Avery Dennison Corp. During their tenure in the home, the Van Schoonenbergs expanded and updated it while maintaining much of the original look.
Asking price: $3,995,000
Size: The 5,400-square-foot house is on 25,690 square feet of grounds.
Features: There are four bedroom suites, formal living and dining rooms, a mahogany-paneled office with a cigar-smoke ventilation system, a family room, a master bathroom with a spa tub, a fountain and many verandas and patios.
Where: La Canada Flintridge is made up of two communities that were joined and incorporated in 1976. The city is bordered by the Angeles National Forest on the north and the cities of Pasadena and Glendale on the east and south.
Flint established Flintridge while serving as head of the L.A. Investment Co., one of the largest real estate concerns in Southern California in the early 1900s. He became president of the company in 1915.
Listing agent: Doug Drummond, Coldwell Banker, La Canada Flintridge, (818) 949-5702.
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