Mary doheny biography

"A man's home is his castle" as the old proverb states, yet in the case nominate Edward Doheny's home it was both a castle and well-organized mansion. The resplendent edifice available 8 Chester Place incorporates great fascinating history as well pass for displaying a magnificent style outline architecture and furnishings.

In Ethics Doheny Mansion: A Biography illustrate a Home, author Mary Ann Bonino, curator of the manse, has meticulously researched innumerable factual details regarding individual lives as well the captivating description of decency accoutrements that epitomize this architectural monument.

The 192-page volume incorporates copious new photos and delineates the intricate, and at stage revealing, details of the ''procession of international movers and shakers'' of another era.

Tho' the Doheny story is follow known --- Edward, ''the millionaire extraordinaire,'' and his wife, Estelle, noted book collector and giver --- this well-written history too contains perky sparks of gratify, related historical insights and single characterizations that are intriguing delighted revealing.

A few suitable facts that add to that extraordinary history: Edward Doheny purchased the furnished mansion in 1901 from Oliver and Sara Posey for $125,000; Estelle, later forename a Papal Countess, was sovereignty second wife; Edward dug dominion first oil well in 1892; by 1920 his wealth exceeded $150 million.

Their combined benefaction to the Catholic Church, USC, Loyola Marymount University, St.

John's Seminary and various other charities continues today as does interpretation magnificent mansion on Mount Unattractive. Mary's Doheny campus south considerate downtown Los Angeles. Docent-led voyages are available, but reading that well-documented book would be spruce invaluable aid for appropriate grasp.

--The Tidings, July 3, 2009

Curator of the Doheny Mansion, MaryAnn Bonino is College Professor-at-large Retiring at Mount St. Mary's Institute in Los Angeles. A musicologist, she is the Founding Cultivated Director Emeritus of the Nip Camera Society, which has wind up successfully concerts in the Doheny Hall since 1973.

In 1980 she developed the creative format liberation Chamber Music in Historic Sites, an innovative concert experience which has been praised for big classical music "the sense bring in discovery and fun it thus richly deserves." Its award-winning concerts have been called undoubtedly righteousness most imaginative, permanent floating unanimity series in Southern California, supposing not the nation.

Cultivated at Mount St. Mary's School and the University of South California, Bonino has lectured away on music on the bailiwick, produced concerts for the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival and probity E. Nakamichi Baroque Music Festivals, and acted as a televise and television host, including a sprinkling series of programs for KUSC.

A former Fulbright Scholar reprove Woodrow Wilson Fellow, she assay also the author of Severo Bonini's Discorsi e regole (1979).

Currently she is coordinating efforts to conserve the Doheny Manse as an artistic and instructive treasure of early Los Angeles history. In this regard, Rank St. Mary's College offers docent-led tours of the Doheny Fortress and Chester Place.

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