Florence Yoch and Lucile Council

Florence Theresa Yoch (July 15, 1890 – January 31, 1972)California, Death Index, 1940-1997 and Lucile Council (November 17, 1898 – January 21, 1964) were influential California landscape designers, practicing in the first half of the 20th century in Southern California.

Biography

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Florence Yoch was born in Orange County,Hadley Meares THe Fabulous Florence Yoch Curbed LA posted Apr 1, 2019, 10:30am PDT California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University and finally the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where she obtained a degree in Landscape Gardening. She began her practice in Pasadena in 1918 and was joined by Lucile Council in 1921, who consequently became her work and life partner. Council was born in Williamsville, Illinois."Landscaping the American dream: the gardens and film sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972"; by James J. Yoch; H.N. Abrams, 1989.

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Their landscape design works include:

The estate of Howard Huntington, a Henry E. Huntington heir, in Pasadena.
The equestrian estate of Will Keith Kellogg in the Pomona Valley, the present day campus of Cal Poly Pomona.{{cite web|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/pomona-ca/cal-poly-pomona-1144 |title=Best Colleges 2010 : Overview : California State Polytechnic University--Pomona |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |date=2009-08-19 |quote=Some of the world's finest architects and landscape architects designed and built the ranch - a hybrid of architecture, which combined the formal courtyards, gardens and elements of Spanish, Italian and Islamic architecture with the informality of a growing nouveau-riche society. Pasadena architect Myron Hunt (Rose Bowl, Huntington Library) designed Kellogg's main house. Charles Gibbs Adams, whose work included the Hearst Castle Gardens in San Simeon, California, was selected to landscape the grounds. Later, the landscape was completed by Florence Yoch and Lucille Council, widely recognized as two of the finest garden designers and landscape architects in California. |accessdate=2010-05-01}}
'Il Brolino' estate with topiary garden in Montecito,{{cite web|url=http://tclf.org/pioneer/florence-yoch |title=Florence Yoch |publisher=The Cultural Landscape Foundation |date= |accessdate=2014-12-13 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208150701/http://tclf.org/pioneer/florence-yoch |archivedate=2013-12-08}}
The Getty House gardens in Windsor Square, Los Angeles.
Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach, California.
The George Cukor gardens in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles - over several decades.
The Jack L. Warner estate in Beverly Hills - present day Jeff Bezos estate.
Film sets for the exterior of 'Tara' in Gone with the Wind
The David O. Selznick estate in Beverly Hills.
The Ebell of Los Angeles.
Dorothy Dobbins Freeman Garden in Pasadena, CaliforniaCALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE

The works of Florence Yoch and Lucile Council are documented in the book Landscaping the American dream: the gardens and film sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972.

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