Ventura County Landmark No. 54: Charles Collins Teague House (Teague Mansion)

This 9,600-square-foot, two-story building was built from 1923 to 1924. Designed by Roy Wilson in collaboration with Edwin Thorne and designer Peter Ficker, the style was called Old English Manor House. Its unique features include an elevator, indoor barbecue, cedar doors and woodwork from Italy, ten furnaces, seven bathrooms, four fireplaces, three chimneys, a game room in the basement, outdoor swimming pool, four-car garage, and five bedroom suites and baths. A cistern in the basement gathers rainwater for houseplants. The house was constructed by Charles Collins Teague, part owner and general manager of the Limoneira Ranch. It was in this house that his son Charles A. Teague, Ventura County’s long-term Congressman, grew up. (Other Teague related landmark: No. 77).