Fenyes Mansion and Estate Garden

Thanks to an extraordinary family legacy, the Fenyes Mansion on Pasadena’s famed “Millionaire’s Row,” once home to Dr. Adalbert and Eva Scott Fenyes, is part of the Pasadena Museum of History campus. Original period furnishings, family heirlooms, and a unique California plein air art collection enhance this 1906 Beaux Arts-style architectural jewel. The lovely residence, designed by Robert Farquhar with a later addition by Sylvanus Marston, retains the collection of the Fenyes-Curtin-Paloheimo family and is decorated as it was lived in a century ago. The Fenyes Mansion was the first residence in the West San Gabriel Valley to encourage film production on its property. Eva Scott Fenyes welcomed film crews to her estate and took photos of the well-known actors and directors. In 1912, D.W. Griffith became the first to use the property as a film location for his period costume drama When Kings Were the Law, starring Mabel Normand and Mae Marsh (retitled The Necklace).