This photograph of Sunny Gables Estate appears in the May, 1931 edition of Architectural Digest. All of the home’s details remain intact, including the original roof, now 96 years old.
Charles Adams Gibbs was the landscape architect for Sunny Gables. Featured in 1928’s Architectural Digest for the W K Kellogg home in Pomona, and well known for the Historic Dater House in Montecito; our large scrolls of his designs, kept in the archives on-site, have hand written notes with owner R T Moore. Gibbs was best known for his use of native California plants and sense of directional light. This harmonized with Moore’s collection of 55,000 Mexican birds and use of Mayan symbolism to express time and space.
Not only is the roof still over our heads, many of the camellias in the photo will soon bloom; and, see the little sycamore tree halfway down the stone path? It continues to grow westward…
Sunny Gables Estate 