Image: Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, California LCCN2013634990
Description: Title: Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, California Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: The gardens are an unusual manmade creation built by Baldasare Forestiere, an immigrant from Sicily, over a period of 40 years from 1906 to until his death in 1946. Countless hours were spent excavating the hardpan layer to create this underground home with a summer bedroom, a winter bedroom, a bath, a functional kitchen, a fish pond, and a parlor with a fireplace, with stone walls, archways, grottoes, and courtyards.; Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:063).; Forms part of: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Title: Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, California LCCN2013634990
Credit: Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2013634990 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/25500/25545a.tif Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.25545
Author: Carol M. Highsmith
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