Wrigley Mansion

  • Also Known As: Tournament House

  • Address: 391 Orange Grove Blvd
  • Vicinity: Arbor St
  • Type: Mansion
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Tournament House

The Wrigley Mansion in Pasadena, California, is the historic headquarters of the Tournament of Roses. Originally the home of the notable Stimson family, the mansion was finished with a front door of Honduran mahogany, mahogany veneers in the dining room, a dining room chandelier from Czechoslovakia, a marble staircase with a mahogany banister and bronze railing and walnut woodwork and a Florentine marble fireplace in living room.

The four and a half acres of gardens surrounding the building feature more than 1,500 varieties of roses, camellias and annuals, and the All-America Rose Selections (AARS) award-winning Tournament of Roses rose developed especially for the Tournament of Roses Centennial. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1906/00/00 G Lawrence Stimson Architect George W Stimson commissions his son, G Lawrence Stimson, to design a large concrete and steel, Italian Revival style, mansion for the family on South Orange Grove Avenue.
1914/00/00 George W Stimson Home The Stimsons furnish four rooms of their 18,500-square-foot residence as it nears completion. Construction was delayed in part by the demand for materials and tradesmen to rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
1914/01/23 William Wrigley Jr Home The G W Stimson sells his mansion to William Wrigley for $170,000 in cash and downsizes to a smaller home. Since the mansion is not yet complete, Wrigley, living in the Robert Neustadt home in Altadena, will not occupy it until the fall.
1915/00/00 Wrigley buys an adjacent lot for $25,000, razes the house and plants a garden. The current gardens, with more than 1,500 varieties of annuals, camellias and roses, include the award-winning Tournament of Roses rose.
1932/01/28 William Wrigley Jr In Memoriam William Wrigley funeral is held in his home on Orange Grove Avenue. "Ave Maria" is played on the organ, flowers fill the mansion and floor and hundreds of mourners line Orange Grove Avenue.
1947/00/00 Ada Elizabeth Wrigley suffers a paralyzing stroke at her Pasadena home. Expected to live only a few days, Mrs Wrigley will lay in a coma in a dark bedroom until her death in 1958.
1959/00/00 The Wrigley family donates the mansion to the Tournament of Roses Association. "The donors believe it is in the public interest to provide a home for said association that will be a credit to the city of Pasadena in the years to come." Phillip K Wrigley
1964/01/01 Dwight D Eisenhower Dignitary Grand Marshal Dwight Eisenhower becomes stuck for some time in a bathroom with a faulty sliding door at the Tournament House.

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Particulars for Wrigley Mansion:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Flower Camellia
Landscape Architecture Formal Gardens
Landscape Architecture Garden
Architectural Style Italianate Villa Revival
Building Type Mansion
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Landscape Architecture Rose Garden
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History




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