Category Timeline 1
1930
Ganna Walska receives the Polish Gold Cross of Merit from the Polish Premier and in 1934 she is awarded the…
1929
Madame Walska wins her U.S. Customs case, establishing the right for American women to have a separate domicile from their…
1928
Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover visits Cuesta Linda as part of a garden tour fundraiser.
1927
Ganna Walska goes into the perfume and cosmetic business, creating numerous fragrances and beauty products to help defray the costs…
1925
The Gavits hire local architect George Washington Smith to construct a perimeter wall, pavilion, stable, swimming pool, bathhouse and several…
1923
The first half of Ganna Walska’s 13-city U.S. concert tour is cancelled when McCormick undergoes an emergency appendectomy. She completes…
1922
Ganna Walska’s divorce in May from Cochran is the subject of much speculation in the press. In August, her marriage…
1920
Ganna Walska is devastated when Dr. Fraenkel dies of a stomach ailment. Three months later, aboard the Aquitania en route…
1918
In February, Ganna Walska makes her New York concert debut at the Biltmore’s Morning Musicale, sharing the bill with famed…
1915
Madame Walska moves to New York to avoid World War I and learns that Baron d’Eingorn has died in battle.