The
Lockridge mansion
2100
Park lane, district
of Montecito, Santa Barbara
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Neighbor
of the Capwell mansion, the Lockridge mansion appears much less sumptuous to us
than her direct competitor. We have only a few details on its style or its
architecture, because in fact we only know the main door (out of whitewood), as
well as a sight on what could be the windows of the living room (surrounded by
some ivy), with, in the foreground, the swimming-pool.
We enter the
mansion by a glass door, which will be replaced by a full door after having been
destroyed during the earthquake of November 1984.
A hallway gives access onto the right
when entering to the cellar, on the left to the staircase towards the first floor.
Opposite the
entrance, we can access the living-room.
The
Lockridges' living room is a vast room with white
sofas face to face.
The walls are painted in pink,
but they will very quickly be
repainted in blue not to confuse this living room with the Capwell mansion.
Right
on the left of the room, in withdrawal, is Lionel's desk. It is where Dominic
will come to hide the evidence of the death of Channing Junior.
Behind
the sofa, some wide white windows
let glimpse the garden.
On the left of
the fireplace where family photos are exposed, some shelves serve as mini-bar. On
the right, a door allows to reach the kitchen, however never seen on the screens.
As
from the first episodes, of the mansion, we discover Augusta's bedroom (which welcomed
Joe, then Lionel). It is a room (that we know far away from Minx's bedroom),
decorated in what can be defined as the pure Augusta Lockridge style : the walls
are in cream and red colors, on a side table are posed many bottles of perfume,
the sheets of the bed are black and white.
Close
to the bed, a door allows to access to the bathroom. We remind the bath of
champagne at Augusta and Lionel's New Year's Eve.
Always
on the second floor, can be found among others Laken's bedroom, with its walls in
pastel colors and decorated with posters.
Minx's
bedroom
appears as from 1985 and will be
the subject of Augusta's
searches to find
the secrets that it
holds about Channing
Capwell Junior and Brick
Wallace.
From
the entrance of the mansion, we can reach the cellar by a wooden staircase.
From there, a hidden exit allows to join a tunnel, which
connects the Lockridge mansion to the Capwell mansion (Read
the presentation of the tunnel connecting the Capwell and Lockridge mansions).
In
a unique occasion
will
be shown to us the stables of
the villa, looking to be mistaken to
those belonging to the Capwells.
At
the beginning of the show, the Lockridges counted as employee only one chauffeur
named of Ambrose. Then, there was Joe Perkins, as a handyman, then a new list of
chauffeurs: Brick Wallace, Janice Harrison.
In
1988, after the complete desertion of the various Lockridge family members, the
house is transformed into a Bed & Breakfast by Gina. It will moreover know
only one customer, Bunny Tagliatti. It is at The Wheel of Fortune
that Gina wins the furnitures which will allow her to fill the mansion.
The
mansion will be entirely destroyed by a fire in 1990 (lit by the jealous Laura
Asher). Repurchased and rebuilt at her come-back in town by Minx Lockridge, it
will preserve the same arrangement, but in colors much more sober (walls painted
in white), and always scattered with various pieces of art collected by Lionel.
The
rest of the property is shown to us only very briefly during the first episodes,
with the fence in barbed wires which separates it from the Capwell property. Another
part of the property, always on the border between the Capwell lands and the Lockridge
lands will be exploited when Lionel and Jane will find fragments of dinosaurs skeletons
and when Minx, at her comeback in Santa Barbara in 1990, will talk about the water
spring with rejuvenating virtues that she discovered there : the Capridge water...
