Category Timeline Stories

Madame Walska is introduced to Harry Grindell-Matthews, a physicist and inventor who shares her love of opera. Their engagement is…

Ganna Walska divides her time between her residences in France and New York.

Harold McCormick, resigned that Ganna Walska will never live with him in Chicago, files for divorce. He and Ganna remain…

Ganna Walska receives the Polish Gold Cross of Merit from the Polish Premier and in 1934 she is awarded the…

Madame Walska wins her U.S. Customs case, establishing the right for American women to have a separate domicile from their…

Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover visits Cuesta Linda as part of a garden tour fundraiser.

Ganna Walska goes into the perfume and cosmetic business, creating numerous fragrances and beauty products to help defray the costs…

The Gavits hire local architect George Washington Smith to construct a perimeter wall, pavilion, stable, swimming pool, bathhouse and several…

The first half of Ganna Walska’s 13-city U.S. concert tour is cancelled when McCormick undergoes an emergency appendectomy. She completes…

Ganna Walska’s divorce in May from Cochran is the subject of much speculation in the press. In August, her marriage…