Both lavish and eclectic in its design and furnishings, the Doheny Mansion was built for the Oliver P. Posey family in 1899 by the architects Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt and purchased in 1901 by the pioneering oil baron Edward L. Doheny.

Its French Chateauesque exterior incorporates elements of Gothic, English Tudor and even California Mission style.

The Pompeian Room features elegant art glass panels, gilt ornament, Tuscan marble in Corinthian columns and a geometrically patterned floor. The most breath-taking aspect of the Pompeian Room, is a rare and magnificent dome of 2,836 pieces of gold-favrile glass cast in the Long Island furnaces of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

To this day, the Pompeian Room retains a grandeur unmatched anywhere in Los Angeles.

The Doheny Mansion has been designated as an "Official Project" of Save America's Treasures, a national effort to protect America's cultural treasures.

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