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El Alisal Stone Mansion: Lummis builds boulder castle by hand; museum keeps doors open

Los Angeles has many well-known homes, but most were designed by architects and built by labourers. Charles Fletcher Lummis was a newspaperman who enjoyed physical labor and took an unusual hands-on approach to building his home. He used stones from the Arroyo Seco and worked with Native American laborers, while also consulting architects about structural problems.

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