The Ernest and Florence Bent Halstead House is an American Craftsman

American Craftsman

The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art...

 style home built in 1908, in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

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History

The Bent-Halstead House was designed by the firm of Eager & Eager for Ernest Bent. It was later owned by Bent's sister, Florence Bent-Halstead. The house features a floor plan similar to a Ranch-style house

Ranch-style house

Ranch-style houses is a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. First built in the 1920s, the ranch style was extremely popular amongst the booming post-war middle class of the 1940s to 1970s...

, far ahead of its time.

The Bent brothers' construction company built the Devil's Gate Dam in the Arroyo Seco

Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County)

The Arroyo Seco, meaning "dry stream" in Spanish, is a seasonal river, canyon, watershed, and cultural area in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The Arroyo Seco has been called the most celebrated canyon in Southern California.-River course:...

 in Pasadena, California

Pasadena, California

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, and the Sweetwater Dam

Bonita, California

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 in San Diego County, California

San Diego County, California

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Historic-Cultural Monument

The Ernest and Florence Bent Halstead House and Grounds is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments are sites in Los Angeles, California, which have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission as worthy of preservation based on architectural, historic and cultural criteria.-History:...

, declared Monument #394 on November 4, 1988. It had been nominated by Charles J. Fisher

Charles J. Fisher

Charles J. Fisher is a published author and Los Angeles-based historic preservation activist who has successfully nominated more than 100 historic buildings as City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments....

 and the Highland Park Heritage Trust.

The house is located at 4200 Glenalbyn Drive in Highland Park, Los Angeles.