3620 Mount Rubidoux Dr, Riverside, CA 92501

This impressive English Tudor Revival was designed by local architect Welmer P. Lamar and built in 1922 for Brooks and Clara Lowentrout. Many Revival styles were popular in the 1920s as American homeowners had a strong desire to connect with tradition while they were experiencing the effects of modernization. The English Tudor during the 15th and 16th Centuries was most often a rural village dwelling. The Tudor Revivals of the 1920s were meant to invoke that warm domesticity to combat the sense of loss from mechanization and modernization. This home features hallmarks of the Tudor Revival style such as half-timbering, a steeply pitched gabled roof, chimney clusters, casement windows and a low rambling floor plan. As time has passed the landscape has grown around the home embracing it as if it had always been there. Where original Tudor homes were very spartan, often not even having windows due to the expense of glass, this Revival style home is plush with comfort and detail. The living room is wrapped in beautiful casement windows, features hardwood floors that continue throughout the lower level and has a focal point Batchelder tile fireplace. There are gorgeous pocket doors between the living and dining rooms which is normally a feature only found in stately homes built around the turn of the century. The kitchen was recently updated with refurbished original cabinetry, new KitchenAid appliances, countertops and gorgeous Moorish inspired art-tile backsplash. There are two b