History
Val Verde contains 17.4 acres of famous Santa Barbara, California gardens,
rare and exotic specimen trees, woodlands, and a mountain stream. Together
with several other notable properties, this unique property helped to
redefine West Coast regional landscape design aesthetics in the early
20th century. American architect Bertram Goodhue (1896-1924), Val Verde's
original designer, laid out the architecture and grounds of Val Verde
in a simple, austere design as a residential prototype for his newly invented
early Modernist American style of architecture, the Mexican Spanish Colonial
Style. Val Verde was built in 1915, contemporaneous with Goodhue's Spanish
Colonial Style designs for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition at Balboa
Park, in San Diego, California. Together, Val Verde and Balboa Park codified
a style of American architecture that helped Goodhue to mentor younger
California architects in what was to known as the Mediterranean Style
and then the California Style, a style that also would impact Californian
landscape design.
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