Casa del Herrero ( Spanish for " House of the Blacksmith " ) was designed for George Fox Steedman and his wife , who were moving west from St. Louis , by architect George Washington Smith . The residence was completed in 1925 , and the Steedmans moved into it the same day as the Santa Barbara earthquake . Steedman - an industrialist , engineer , and amateur architect - assembled a team of architects , landscape architects , antiquarians , and horticulturists to produce the Casa del Herrero estate — an example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture . Steedman participated in every detail of the property 's buildings , furnishings , and gardens . In the 1930s , architect Lutah Maria Riggs designed the octagonal library addition
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1925 Santa Barbara earthquake
Casa del Herrero