Cate School
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Cate School is a highly selective, coeducational university-preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12 located in Carpinteria, California, eleven miles from Santa Barbara. In 2012, the school had 270 students, who came from 31 states and 18 foreign countries. In 2022, Niche ranked Cate School the best boarding school in California and the 13th-best in the United States.
Cate School founder Curtis Wolsey Cate with his first class in 1910 at what he initially called "The Miramar School" (Gane House).
Cate School competes against Thacher in the annual Gymkhana, February 1936
Curtis Wolsey Cate
Reginald Davis Johnson
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Reginald Davis Johnson (1882–1952) was an American architect. His practice, based in Pasadena, California, focused on the Los Angeles area and southern California in general, with a mixture of residential and commercial work. Johnson's later work was influenced by his progressive ideas on housing policy.
Santa Barbara Post Office (93101). Reginald Johnson, architect, 1936. Commissioned as part of the New Deal
Charles Francis Paxton house, 1160 South Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena. Reginald Davis Johnson, architect, completed 1919. Landscape: Renelje Schenck (Mrs. Charles F.) Paxton. Today: House relocated to South Pasadena
Baldwin Hills Village, Landmark Plaque