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The Fenyes Estate
The Fenyes Estate is a historic two-acre estate complex located at 160-170 North Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena, California, along what was once known as “Millionaire’s Row.” Pasadena Museum of History maintains the century-old estate and offers docent-led tours of the Fenyes Mansion, the Curtin House, and the Finnish Folk Art Museum and gardens. In 1905, Dr. Adalbert Fenyes and his wife Eva Scott Muse Fenyes commissioned a two-story, house from architect Robert D. Farquhar. Designed in the Beaux Arts manner, the mansion was completed at a cost of $20,325. In 1911, architect Sylvanus Marston of Marston & Van Pelt completed an addition consisting of a studio, conservatory, and laboratory. Like many of the large old homes along Orange Grove Boulevard, the Fenyes Mansion reflects the opulent neoclassical tastes popular at the turn of the century. Dr. Adalbert Fenyes, a native of Hungary, was an entomologist and the first Pasadena doctor to use an X-ray machine. His wife Eva was an artist and world traveler who met her husband in Cairo, Egypt. The estate and gardens were used as sets for a number of early motion pictures for film industry notables such as Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. The estate is listed as a Pasadena Cultural Landmark and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1985. Marston & Van Pelt also designed the 1915 Curtin House, a smaller French-influenced house on the grounds for Eva Fenyes' only daughter, Leonora Curtin, who inherited the mansion from her mother. Leonora Curtin had one daughter also named Leonora who was known as “Babsie”. A linguist who spent time among the Pueblo Indians, Babsie traveled widely, spending time in Santa Fe and Pasadena until she met Yrjo Alfred Paloheimo, a Finnish diplomat whom she married in 1946. Paloheimo was Finland’s Consul for the Southwest area and the Fenyes Mansion served as the Finnish consulate’s office for seventeen years. Paloheimo also established the Finnish Folk Art Museum, a Swiss chalet-style building.  Paloheimo and his wife adopted four Finnish children, who together donated the estate to the Pasadena Museum of History in 1970.

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