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and instead helped build many private
Japanese-style tea gardens all over northern California. Of those, the de Sabla property is the only one that still stands, adding to its notability. Hagiwara was able to acquire these gigs because the Midwinter Fair he helped organize in 1894 made Japanese-style
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The tea garden itself has been described as both a
Higurashi-en, which is translated into "a garden worthy of a day of contemplation" and a Shin-style hill garden. The garden is almost one acre, in an estate that was once 35 acres when de Sabla bought it. A variety of trees surround the garden, many
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he made some additions to the garden and then sold it again in 1949. Since then, the property has been sold several times, with many of its owners offering house and garden tours to the public. In 1992, the property was added to the
National Register of Historic Places after the estate was purchased
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family owned the property until 1940, hosting many locally notable social events within it during their ownership of the property. Eventually, they sold the estate to a local builder and developer who auctioned off the contents of the manor and then divided the estate into residential areas. This is
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statue, a bridge, a tsukubai, and more. Tiny electric lights illuminate the garden at night and a bamboo fence with a roofed entrance surrounds the entire estate. The teahouse is on the West side of the garden. It was eventually turned into a large full residence adding a guest house and garage in
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gardens a trend in the region while the
Victorian style of gardens fell out of style. After the garden was constructed, local social events were regularly hosted in its confines, even after de Sabla sold the property to another wealthy socialite family, the
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planted when he worked on the estate. It additionally includes a small, man-made mountain made partly of volcanic
Japanese rock from which a stream flows out of and into a waterfall and a lake filled with Koi. The garden also includes lanterns, a
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something that happened to most large estates of the area at the time. The real estate developer, David
Bohannon, did not turn the garden area into a residential lot though, looking to sell it instead. One potential buyer was
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that still survives in the park today. The garden was originally a part of the
Japanese village at the California Midwinter Fair at the park in 1894. After Poett died in 1893, the property fell to her third husband, attorney
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Cerrito estate, and eventually the tea garden on the property, passed through the hands of many notable California families and people throughout its history. The estate was originally owned by a rich merchant from
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developed some aspects of the tea garden on the property due to his
Japanese influence, but the brunt of the development came when the property was owned by Eugene Joly de Sabla, Jr., who purchased it in 1906.
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the corner of the garden. The teahouse itself is one story high, with shoji screen doors and plaster walls with wood beams. A scroll, incense, and flower arrangements are displayed inside of the teahouse.
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The de Sabla family allegedly descends from an exiled French noble whose family settled in
Central America in the 1700s and involved themselves in politics and business there.
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in 1853. Howard gave the estate the name of El Cerrito, or Little Hill in Spanish. His wife, Agnes Poett, later inherited the property and brought gardener
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in 1988 by San Francisco businessman Achille Paladini and his wife Joan Paladini who skillfully brought the historic garden back to its former beauty.
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Jr. set out on his own entrepreneurial ventures, though, getting into the electric and gas power industry. He partnered with John Martin to form
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