CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
660 ELIZABETH ST
DPR523A - Primary [print]
State of California - The Resource Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
PRIMARY RECORD
 
 
Survey #:
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NRHP Status Code: 5S1 
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Date: -/-/-
 
 
*Resource Name or #:  
 
P1.  Other Identifier:  
 
*P2.  Location: not for publication   unrestricted
*a.  County Los Angeles 
and (P2c, P2e, and P2b or P2d. Attach a Location Map as Necessary)
b.  USGS 7.5' Quad:   YEAR:   T   ; R   ;   of   of Sec   ;   B.M.
c.  Address: 660 ELIZABETH ST City: Pasadena State: CA Zip Code:
d.  UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources)   Zone:   ; -118.137042  mE/ 34.173262  mN
e.  Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc., as appropriate)
 
*P3a.  Description:  (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
Built in 1908, the two-story house is sited on a lot at the southeast corner of Elizabeth Street and North El Molino Avenue, with the front of the house facing Elizabeth Street. The surrounding neighborhood contains a mixture of homes predominantly from the 1900’s to the 1920’s with a few from the 1930’s through the 1950’s. In addition to the residence, the property has a detached two-car garage in the same style as the house.

The 2,416-square-foot house exhibits typical Arts and Crafts features including clapboard siding on the first floor and wood-shingle wall cladding on the second floor and gables; wood double-hung and casement windows with divided lights; a wide wood front door with a large oval window; Arroyo-stone foundation, porch, columns and chimney; vented gables; exposed rafters on the horizontal portions of the roof and triangular braces on the sloping roofs. The house includes an entablature at the base of the gables and between the first and second stories, with those at the gables having large, widely-spaced dentils. The house appears higher than a typical two-story house due to the presence of a full walk-out basement which extends above grade on the south elevation.

The Elizabeth Street elevation contains a deep covered front porch extending the entire length of the façade with a gabled and shed roof which is a mirror image of the main roof above; a large fixed window with a multi-light transom on the first floor; and a vented shed dormer. Both side elevations have diamond-paned casement windows on the first floor and double-hung windows with divided lights on the upper sash on the second floor. The easterly elevation has a large bay window and a covered porch that wraps around to the rear of the house. A small triangular bay window projects from the El Molino elevation at the location of an interior stairwell.
 
*P3b.  Resource Attributes:  (List attributes and codes)  
 
*P4.  Resources Present:
Building Structure Object Site District Element of a District Other
 
P5a.  Photograph or Drawing (Photograph required for buildings, structures, and objects.)
P5b.
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*P6.
Date Constructed/Age and Source:
Historic PreHistoric
Both Neither
Year Built: 1908 - Documented
 
*P7.
Owner and Address:
Name:  
Address:  
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*P8.
Recorded By:
 
*P9.
Date Recorded: -/-/-
 
*P10.
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*P11.  Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.")
 
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet
Building, Structure, and Ojbect Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record
Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record
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