House of the Week: A Romance Novelist's Prohibition-Era California Home

Historical romance novelist Kathryn Le Veque loves nothing more than a deep dive into history, in order to set her love affairs against the backdrop of medieval England. Her home in Glendora, Calif., sent her down a new rabbit hole.
The Wallace Neff-designed home dates to the 1930s, when it was created for Arthur K. Bourne, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. It has a hidden steel-lined safe room designed to protect the Singer family following the Lindbergh baby kidnapping in 1932. Built during Prohibition, the room also serves as a speakeasy.

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