Author: Sunny Gables Estate

French Norman architecture looks like English Tudor–except for one important distinguishing feature: a tower-like structure topped with a conical shaped roof.

Sunny Gables Estate is a classic example.

These are both European, medieval revivalists styles that feature hand-hewn half-timber and rough plaster exteriors with brick and stone cladding, wrought-iron details, high-pitched, front-facing gables and diamond-cut, leaded-glass windows.

Public interior rooms are centered around massive fireplaces, surrounded by floor-to ceiling wood panels; smooth and rough plaster walls with exposed wood-beam ceilings, and wrought-iron hardware on railings, light fixtures, doors and windows often with gothic designs.

How did these two styles diverge? The story of that battle is for another day.

Stay tuned.

…IF YOU CAN!

This authentic triple-door Mosler Bank Vault was manufactured on the East Coast and shipped here to be installed as part of the lower foundation of Sunny Gables in 1929. It is seated to face exactly zero degrees North. The only other known Mosler Vault of the art-deco era that is not installed in a bank is on Main Street in Disneyland, Anaheim, California!

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Browse the library for something interesting…or something VERY interesting, indeed!

Need a quiet place to dust off that book you don’t have time for when you’re working? Are you really a poet trapped inside a sitcom writer’s body? Got a graphic novel or need to churn out a few magazine articles a week for cash?

We support our storytellers, so our space is going unused as well. If you are a member of the WGA and were working under an AMPTP contract, we have a working space for you free of charge when you are not on the picket line, until the strike is over. Desk, wifi, heat/ac, mini-fridge, etc. We have several areas, subject to availability.

Call or text Harrison @818.648.5050 to discuss!