Category Timeline Stories

Ganna Walska is devastated when Dr. Fraenkel dies of a stomach ailment. Three months later, aboard the Aquitania en route…

In February, Ganna Walska makes her New York concert debut at the Biltmore’s Morning Musicale, sharing the bill with famed…

Madame Walska moves to New York to avoid World War I and learns that Baron d’Eingorn has died in battle.

New Yorkers E. Palmer and Marie Gavit purchase the property, naming it Cuesta Linda. Pasadena based architect Reginald Johnson completes…

Hanna adopts the stage name Madame Ganna Walska and studies singing in Paris with Polish tenor Jean de Reszke.

Stevens’ widow sells the property to neighbor George Owen Knapp.

Stevens dies. His struggling widow operates the property as a guest ranch, leases it to a school and eventually rents…

Ganna Walska, nee Hanna Puacz, is born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland.