Structure Type: landscapes - gardens - garden structures - pavilions
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
In the early 20th century, wealthy white families on the West Coast popularized the construction of Japanese teahouses on their estates. Japanese cultural objects and ceremonies became fashionable, even though Japanese-Americans were still systematically excluded from property ownership and mainstream Euro-American society. Newspapers of the early 1900s contained advertisements for Japanese import stores, selling porcelain, lacquerware, kimonos and other curios to white buyers.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places #92000965.
National Register of Historic Places (July 30, 1992): 92000965 NRHP Images (pdf) NHRP Registration Form (pdf)
PCAD id: 4860